Short clip: Travelocity goes green

July 24, 2007, 1:01pm PDT | Length: 00:01:14
Barry Vandevier, the CTO of Travelocity, discusses a new program that allowsusers to purchase "carbon offsets" when booking travel.

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Short clip: Travelocity goes green

>> Now green is another one of those hot topics right now in terms of technology. From a datacenter perspective, what are you doing to make yourselves more green? And is that something you consider to be important from an economic standpoint as well as a public policy?

>> We do. In fact I'll give you a couple examples. From a datacenter perspective, absolutely, in terms of the server footprints, in terms of moving towards CPUs and hardware that use less power and require less cooling. I mean, those energy costs take up a big portion of powering of the costs around the consumption of our hardware. So focused on smaller footprints and products that require less energy is a big focus for us. But there's another area that we're very focused on at Travelocity and that's our Go Zero program, which is a carbon offset that allows our customers to donate money and all the money is put towards the program that then trees are planted that can offset an entire trip. So if you take a trip and schedule a trip, you can donate $10 and that will apply towards a carbon offset for that entire trip. And so that's been a big success for us here in the U.S. and in Europe and a big focus of us from an environmental perspective.

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