A long time ago I saw an application on one of my friend’s Facebook profiles that said that “This Page Is Green!” and that she had reduced CO2 by x amount of pounds. I usually do not believe in all of those applications on Facebook, and I think that they are a waste of space, time, money, and only result in clutter on a person’s page, but I thought about and decided that I could support “Going Green.”

I am sure that there are a lot of other applications out there that are like this one, but the one that I am a member of and who I support on my page is called Greenbook. These days, Facebook has made people’s pages easy to navigate to and the silly applications can be found as “boxes” under certain tabs–thereby hiding the clutter. Well, to be honest, I had forgotten about my Greenbook application until just recently and I saw that I had somehow reduced CO2 by 0.45 pounds and that currently, all Greenbook users have been able to reduce CO2 by 962,897.24 pounds.

How exactly does a program like this work? I am clearly not sitting at my computer and actively using that application, and sitting at my computer would mean that I am wasting energy–thereby producing CO2 gases as I sit on Facebook, finding out what is going on in everyone’s lives. Well, it turns out that installing the Greenbook application generates money through sponsorship, and this money is used to reduce harmful emissions.

What Greenbook does is use the funds generated through sponsorship to purchase a certain amount of CO2 reduction. They then give some of that amount to everyone who has the application, like me, on a daily basis. So, every “Nightly Update”, Greenbook users are given a fraction of the daily amount.

As for who this application’s sponsors are, some of them include TerraPass, The Experience Project, Teecrush, and Gonergy.

Though it is not too much, joining Greenbook does aid in saving the environment, one Facebook at a time.

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