Facebook Excels At Going Green

Facebook's trademark color may be blue, but it's also known for being green. New figures released Wednesday by the social network show that 23 percent of the company's energy is renewable. Facebook is also continuing to seek ways to cut back its carbon emissions and increase the percentage of energy coming from clean, renewable sources.

Facebook’s trademark color may be blue, but it’s also known for being green. New figures released Wednesday by the social network show that 23 percent of the company’s energy is renewable. Facebook is also continuing to seek ways to cut back its carbon emissions and increase the percentage of energy coming from clean, renewable sources.

Within the data, Facebook pointed out that the average monthly user has a carbon footprint of roughly 269 grams. That means for one year, a Facebook user’s carbon output was roughly the same as three bananas, a medium latte, or two glasses of wine.

Altogether, Facebook’s carbon emissions in 2011 measured out to 285,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide.

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