We opened our doors to students in December of 2006 and we’re proud to say that we’ve saved at least 1,710 trees from ‘sequestering‘ eleven thousand pounds of CO2. As our enrollment numbers grow, so too will the number of trees we save together. Can we save 100,000 trees this year?

How, you ask, can we do all this?

Grockit‘s courses are online. Teachers and students meet live in an online shared workspace and talk, chat, draw and more. One of the best things about an online course is that you do it all from your own home. No more driving to class. So, we took some conservative estimates on the number of miles students and teachers drive to and from class as well as average gas mileage. From that we used the cool calculator at travelmatters.org and we calculated that we owe ourselves (and our students) a Stephen Colbert style ‘Tip of the Hat’ for taking one more step to save the planet (aka ourselves).

Our business operations are also Environmentally lean, but we can’t tell you about them. Super secret stuff you know.