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Manoush Zomorodi explores the surprising environmental impact of the internet in this episode of IRL. Because while it\u2019s easy to think of the internet as living only on your screen, energy demand for the internet is indeed powered by massive server farms, running around the clock, all over the world. What exactly is the internet\u2019s carbon footprint? And, what can we do about it?\n\nMusic professor Kyle Devine considers the environmental costs of streaming music. Geophysicist and pop scientist Miles Traer takes his best shot at calculating the carbon footprint of the IRL podcast. Climate journalist Tatiana Schlossberg explores the environmental influence we don\u2019t know we have and what the web\u2019s got to do with it. Greenpeace\u2019s Gary Cook explains which tech companies are committed to renewable energy \u2014 and which are not. Kris De Decker tries powering his website with a homebrew solar power system. And, Ecosia's Chief Tree Planting Officer Pieter Van Midwoud discusses how his company uses online search to plant trees. \n\nIRL is an original podcast from Firefox. For more on the series go to irlpodcast.org