Q: What's the carbon impact of your Facebook account? A: Three bananas

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Social networking giant reveals carbon emissions for the first time and sets clean energy goal for 2015

Facebook's 900 million users each emitted 3,228 grams of carbon by using the social networking site last year, resulting in the same environmental impact as drinking two glasses of wine, according to new...

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