Spam is slowly eating the environment May 5, 2009

Key Findings:

• An estimated worldwide total of 62 trillion spam emails were sent in 2008
• Globally, annual spam energy use totals 33 billion kilowatt-hours (KWh), or 33 terawatt hours (TWh). That’s equivalent to the electricity used in 2.4 million homes in the United States, with the same GHG emissions as 3.1 million passenger cars using two billion United States gallons of gasoline
• The average GHG emission associated with a single spam message is 0.3 grams of CO2. That’s like driving three feet (one meter) in equivalent emissions, but when multiplied by the annual volume of spam, it’s like driving around the Earth 1.6 million times
• The average business email user is responsible for 131 kg of CO2 per year in email-related emissions and 22 percent of that figure is spam-related.
• The energy required annually to create, send, receive, store, and view spam adds up to more than 33 billion KWh, approximately equivalent to 4 gigawatts of baseload power generation or the power provided by four large new coal power plants.
• ICF estimates spam-related emissions for all email users at an annual total of 17 million metric tons of CO2
• Users viewing and deleting spam is the largest energy drain associated with spam, almost 18 billion kWh or 52 percent of total spam energy.

Source: McAfee

Vaibhav sends an email May 27, 2008

The mail below was sent by one of our members to all his friends; educating them about this organization and encouraging them to support by recommending someone.

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Hey, I am mailing you on behalf of ek-titli, hoping that you have received the letter, the email and also the money order, because the money order will surely encourage you to plant a tree. I have already sent this SET of letters-email-MO to 17 people, literally using up my contacts that I believe will be responsible to plant a tree and help the environment and its cause. What’s of concern to me is that I have run out of contacts due to which there has been a long pause in sending more of such SETS. The only solution I have is requesting you to provide me details of people whom you believe will help this cause. Just scroll down your phone book, or the contacts in your email, or flip through your address book, and I am certain that you will find at least a few to whom such SETS can be sent to. I request you to send me the contact details and the addresses of these people along with the occasion on which such SETS can be sent. [ to recommend someone click here otherwise mail us at titli [at] ektitli [dot] org giving us the details. We’ll take it forward from here but we will keep you updated. ] I believe that this is a good thought, but to help this thought to grow in magnitude and dimension, I will need your participation. The titli eagerly awaits your mail. Best wishes and deepest regards. Vaibhav Dugar

Life Cycle of the ‘titli’ Egg: During the ‘egg’ phase we send ‘letters’ to various people. Larva: ‘Letters’ reach the respective people in the ‘larva’ phase. Pupa: The objective is achieved in this phase. i.e., when the recipient plants trees/buys a flower pot/gifts a sapling, etc. Adult/butterfly/titli: When the same people suggest names and addresses of responsible people to whom such a ‘letter’ can be sent to on various occasions or festivals. This helps the thought and the cause to grow. Recommending someone is simple. Just click here and fill a form or mail us at titli [at] ektitli [dot] org or copy paste the following link on your address bar: http://www.ektitli.org-a.googlepages.com/home

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Thank you Vaibhav for taking this initiative.

I received the ‘letter’, now what? March 29, 2008

STEP 1: Thats where the fun begins. If you’ve received a letter or an email, it will tell you what the objective of the “letter” is.

We sincerely hope that the objective is fulfilled.

STEP 2: Mail us contact details of the various responsible people you know to whom such “letters” can be sent.

We need these details so that we can help the organization grow by sending them letters.
Click here if you want to recommend someone responsible.

STEP 3: If you have achieved the objective, why don’t you tell us about it (leave a comment or use our contact form). Send us your photographs, details, etc because each time you inform us, we’ll take it as a compliment.

And a compliment is a good dose of encouragement.