Depending on the type of business, whats the likeliest culprit between energy, travel, waste, paper, and freight?
Wilhelm: If you’re a manufacturer, energy is your biggest. If you’re service-based, electricity is a part but employee travel is a big, big deal. That’s the one that always shocks people. I biked an entire year to work, then I took one trip to China and wiped it all out. I could have driven a Hummer to work, used plastic bottles, used virgin paper, and it wouldn’t have been as much. OK, but videoconferencing is not going to replace business travel. There are still those people who believe that you have to meet face-to-face and sometimes a situation does require it. Wilhelm: When a company looks at the cost of travel, they may only look at the cost of the ticket and hotel, and don’t take in the effect of a person’s time away from the office, their loss of production, or flight delays. But you’re right, the video tech is not going to replace 100 percent the face-to-face because, let’s face it, people do business with people. But instead of making four trips you make two: the first impres
