一次减少Labster的碳足迹一次

This Spring, we at Labster decided to take active steps towards reducing our carbon footprint.

气候变化对我们星球的福祉构成了迫在眉睫的威胁。随着二氧化碳的水平不断上升，热能被困在我们的大气中，导致地球变得更加温暖。

作为一家致力于改变科学学生教育并确保下一代能够做出明智的决定的全球公司，我们认为这是我们积极措施停止气候变化的责任。为此，我们在Labster哥本哈根办事处的我们中的那些人决定改变生活方式，以降低我们的排放量并减少我们的碳足迹。

Why Copenhagen?

团队在哥本哈根首先踢-start the climate initiative. The capital of Denmark, Copenhagen, is a city that has an infrastructure catered towards being environmentally friendly. Its household waste systems are designed to separate rubbish, and its streets are all equipped with cycle lanes. This city therefore seemed like the perfect place for Labster to start actively reducing its carbon footprint. Despite Denmark’s reputation as a sustainable country, it still has a way to go to reduce its carbon emission levels. If everyone were to adopt the same lifestyle habits as the average Dane, we would need the resources of up to three planet earths! Therefore, despite also having offices in the US, in Bali, and other places around the world, those of us here at Labster’s headquarters thought that we could make the biggest initial impact if we started our climate change mission in Copenhagen.

我们如何创建气候OKR？

Small efforts can make a big impact, and the issue of climate change is no exception. It is for this reason that we decided to team together to reduce our carbon footprint. In the Copenhagen office, we have been making small changes to our lifestyle in order to reduce the carbon footprint of the whole company.

We set up the climate change initiative as a company-wide OKR.OKR, which stands for ‘Objectives and Key Results’, is the framework around which Labster sets its goals on a short term basis. Splitting the year into four sections, we all set personal, departmental, and company-wide OKRs each quarter that guide our work towards specific objectives. Tracking our objectives every week, we have created a working culture committed to achieving sustainable and mangable goals.

It is within this framework that we set up the Climate OKR, a company-wide goal committed to reducing Labster’s carbon footprint. The suggested goals were placed in an OKR document which is outlined in more detail at the bottom of this article. Lifestyle changes have included switching to a vegetarian or vegan diet, reducing the amount of plastic you use, donating and purchasing clothes from second-hand stores, and choosing to take the bike when you could otherwise drive.

What have we been doing?

营销主管Mikkel Marius Winther-Lange帮助减少了他的碳足迹“吃疯狂的素食食品！”这不仅有助于他减少碳足迹，而且他报告说更健康，更快乐。

Going vegetarian is a great way to reduce the amount of CO₂ you are producing every day. Research has found thatlivestock are responsible for 14.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions. This means that by reducing, or completely omitting, the amount of meat you are eating, you can make a real difference to the environment. By eating vegetarian twice a week for just two weeks (so far), Mikkel was able to reduce his own footprint by around 13kg of CO₂.

Another member of the team, Abigail Pease, reduced the temperature of her washing machine from 60 to 30 degrees Celsius and stopped tumble drying for one whole month. A small and easy change to just two washes a week, the size of her carbon footprint fell by一个月内21.6kgCo₂.

自行车倡议

One of the best things about setting OKRs is that they can be used to inspire further projects that work towards the same general goal. One of Labster’s Content Writers, Rodrigo Guzman, helped the whole team in his efforts to reduce CO₂ emissions by running the bike-to-work campaign. As an ambassador for this scheme, Rodrigo helped to make a real and powerful difference to the environment. Speaking to us about his initiative, he highlighted the key reasons why he wanted Labster to be part of the Denmark-wideCyklist Forbundet方案：

“Climate change is a reality, and sometimes, due to the weather in Denmark, taking the bike to work seems like a challenge, so we decide to take the bus, train, or car instead, which is way more contaminant than biking.”

By encouraging fifteen members of Labster to take part in the scheme, Rodrigo hoped to see both the well-being of the planet, and of his colleagues, improve. Most of us here at Labster spend a great deal of time thinking about new and innovative ways to use the latest technology to build virtual simulations, which can result in a lot of time being spent at our desks! Through committing to a more active lifestyle, Rodrigo and much of the team have been able to activate their metabolism and refresh their head at the beginning and end of each working day.

Those taking part in the initiative have been keeping track of the kms that they cycle on the bike-to-work page, which automatically calculated the kg of CO₂ being saved. This means that those taking part were able to see the direct impact they were having on the environment step by step. In its running time, the fifteen team members had 198 days where they chose the bike over alternative transport methods. The team managed to biked a total of 2,438km, saving the planet from 398kgs of CO₂! An incredible success, the scheme has made significant contributions to the broader commitment of reducing Labster’s carbon footprint, whilst creating a fun and challenging working environment.

全国59,144个丹麦人最终参加了自行车倡议。骑自行车900万公里，等于地球周围的233辆自行车！如果相同数量的公里数是由汽车驾驶的，则参与者将散发出150万公斤的Co₂。

随着我们进入夏天，雨天变得越来越少，Rodrigo和其他团队的其他成员很高兴看到我们更多的人选择骑自行车来工作。

你能做什么？

If you are inspired by our efforts to combat climate change, you can make some of the changes below to reduce your own carbon footprint. We have included some stats to help you calculate the amount you are able to reduce your CO₂ levels if making the advised changes to your lifestyle.

进入未来，我们很高兴看到Labster可以继续减少其碳足迹的程度，并激发他人做同样的事情！

How can you measure it?

When we began the Climate OKR, a document was made that was shared with the whole company, which went through the importance of reducing levels of CO₂ in combating climate change. In the document were ways that each individual can reduce their own carbon emission levels through small lifestyle changes. The changes and their subsequent impacts are laid out in the table below.

Change	Impact
尝试改变素食	A meat-eater who eats more than 100g of meat per day emits on average 7.19kg of CO₂ per day. A vegetarian emits on average 3.81kg of CO₂ per day, and a vegan emits just 2.89kg. This means that the CO₂ emissions of a meat-eater are almost twice as large as those who do not eat meat. If you avoid eating meat for 3 days a week, you will therefore be able to save3.38 kg of CO₂ per each of these days.
开始以较低的温度洗衣服	Washing machines have a considerably high energy consumption, and therefore increase our carbon footprint. Both the temperature used by the machines, and the amount they are put to use, increases CO₂ consumption. If you wash your clothes at 30 instead of 60 degrees four times a week, you can save25公斤co₂.
Air dry your washing rather than use a tumble dryer	滚筒干燥机还产生大量的碳排放。如果您的衣服晾干而不是使用滚筒式干衣机，则每年可以节省121公斤的Co₂。这意味着，如果您停止将衣服晾干四个星期，您可以节省9.3 kg of CO₂.
将您的运输方式换成公共汽车或自行车	汽车负责欧盟12%的₂emissions. If you do not drive for 3 days a week, and instead bike to work, you can save 13.68 kg of CO₂ per day. By doing this for a month, you can hereby save59.82 kg CO₂.
Do not waste left-over food	Food waste is a big cause of climate change. Today, 30% of food across the globe goes to waste, contributing to总温室气体排放的8％. You can avoid wasting food by ensuring that you use up any leftover food in your fridge.