Buying Online Helps the Environment

I wasn’t aware of this but now that I’ve read it I admit it does make sense.  Did you know that you contribute to the environment if you go shopping online?  According to a green study by Carnegie Mellon University online shopping reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 35% compared to buying in retail stores.

Say you have to buy a laptop. You need to drive your car to the store and then drive home after that and so does the thousands of people who also want to buy a laptop at the store. If you buy it in an online store like Buy.com, for example, the laptops will be delivered straight to your home by a light vehicle and the vehicle will save time, trips, and carbon emissions by going straight to the next house to deliver instead of you going back and forth.

I already knew it saves me money, time, and energy to have the stuff delivered straight to me but now that I know that I’m helping the environment too now I surely have more reason to shop online.