How Green is this?
- 16 05 2008
There’s lots of companies advertising their resource usage, so we’ll throw our hats in the ring:
- What we do (Sustainable Solutions and Sustainable Networks combined Kathmandu Office)
- 10 staff
- Wireless internet for 40 clients,
- including three gateway machines running Freebsd 24-7 on embedded and full versions including proxy servers and mail servers
- What we use
- Electricity usage per month: 300 Kwh (Cost: USD60 per month for whole office)
- Water usage: about 5000 litres per month
- Heating: all passive. Except for running a gas heater for a hour a week over the winter.
- Cooling: Just 50W fans
- Transport: we have 2 motorcycles for office use. Of our 10 staff:
- 3 walk to work
- 3 use public transport
- 3 use motorcycles
- 1 uses a bicycle.
How are we doing?
We think we can do better in the following areas
- Look at moving some electricity generation to solar
- Try and minimise air travel to client sites out of Nepal