**You wake up at 5 am, rush to the airport and take the first plane to some faraway place to discuss with ten yawning colleagues over the next few hours. You then fly back home, looking out the window and thinking: _We could've done a Webex instead! It's nice shaking hands every once in a while, but every other month? Why do 10 people need to fly around Europe to do what they basically can do from the office? And of course: forgetting about the ongoing climate crisis and dumping tons of CO2 to the atmosphere._** Enter [**Lobelia Connect**](https://connect.lobelia.earth). Use Lobelia Connect when you want a zero-complexity-yet-feature-rich tool to communicate with your colleagues, while feeling happy about the damage you're *not* causing to the environment. Every time you enter a Lobelia Connect room, you'll see the estimated amount of CO2 you and your colleagues are sparing the Earth. ## First things first: is this free? Yes. To tell you the truth, it doesn't cost us a penny, so why should we charge you? Just help raise awareness of the climate emergency by spreading the word and getting more people to use Lobelia Connect. ## How are the CO2 savings calculated? Lobelia Connect first determines the optimum location for the equivalent real-life meeting, using IP geolocation to know *more or less* where each participant is. It then determines the amount of CO2 needed for all participants to get there. In some cases, no travelling will be involved. In others, and depending on the distance, the two-way carbon footprint is calculated: * **By car** (one-way distance below 400 km): 120.4 g/km per person (average emissions for new cars registered in 2018 in the EU + Iceland; source: [EC](https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/transport/vehicles/cars_en)) * **By plane**: 115 or 101 g/km per person, for short-haul (Boeing 737-400) and long-haul (Boeing 747-400) flights, respectively, plus a 2x radiative factor that accounts for the fact that emissions into the high atmosphere have a higher greenhouse effect (source: [Ian Campbell & Margaret Campbell, ClimateIndependent.org](https://www.carbonindependent.org/22.html)) ## Do you store private information? Rest assured: we don't. Connections are established peer-to-peer and signalling messages are exchanged via our servers anonymously. IP geolocations are requested by your browser directly (and anonymously) to a [third-party service](https://extreme-ip-lookup.com), over a secure channel. Oh, and by the way: **no registration is required**. ## Who's behind Lobelia Connect? We're a [small company](https://lobelia.earth) located in Barcelona, in love with satellites, computers and our planet.

Videoconferencing with a conscience

You wake up at 5 am, rush to the airport and take the first plane to some faraway place to discuss with ten yawning colleagues over the next few hours. You then fly back home, looking out the window and thinking: We could've done a Webex instead! It's nice shaking hands every once in a while, but every other month? Why do 10 people need to fly around Europe to do what they basically can do from the office? And of course: forgetting about the ongoing climate crisis and dumping tons of CO₂ to the atmosphere.

Enter Lobelia Connect.

Use Lobelia Connect when you want a zero-complexity-yet-feature-rich tool to communicate with your colleagues, while feeling happy about the damage you're not causing to the environment.

Every time you enter a Lobelia Connect room, you'll see the estimated amount of CO₂ you and your colleagues are sparing the Earth.

First things first: is this free?

Yes. To tell you the truth, it doesn't cost us a penny, so why should we charge you? Just help raise awareness of the climate emergency by spreading the word and getting more people to use Lobelia Connect.

How are the CO₂ savings calculated?

Lobelia Connect first determines the optimum location for the equivalent real-life meeting, using IP geolocation to know more or less where each participant is. It then determines the amount of CO₂ needed for all participants to get there. In some cases, no travelling will be involved. In others, and depending on the distance, the two-way carbon footprint is calculated:

By car (one-way distance below 400 km): 120.4 g/km per person (average emissions for new cars registered in 2018 in the EU + Iceland; source: EC)
By plane: 115 or 101 g/km per person, for short-haul (Boeing 737-400) and long-haul (Boeing 747-400) flights, respectively, plus a 2x radiative factor that accounts for the fact that emissions into the high atmosphere have a higher greenhouse effect (source: Ian Campbell & Margaret Campbell, ClimateIndependent.org)

Do you store private information?

Rest assured: we don't. Connections are established peer-to-peer and signalling messages are exchanged via our servers anonymously. IP geolocations are requested by your browser directly (and anonymously) to a third-party service, over a secure channel.

Oh, and by the way: no registration is required.

Who's behind Lobelia Connect?

We're a small company located in Barcelona, in love with satellites, computers and our planet.

Dirk Spijkers

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