Commitment

We're Passionate about Supporting Children, Fair Trade, Education, and are 100% Committed to Helping to Protect Our Planet

Our steadfast dedication to the environment and other social causes earns us the title of “Not Your Ordinary Telecommunications Company”…and for that, we're proud!

We Love Being Green

We are always looking for ways to reduce our ecological impact along every step of the product and service delivery process. At BetterWorld Telecom, we take our commitment to the environment so seriously; we launched the BetterWorld Environmental Impact Plan. And we're proud to report that BetterWorld has officially become the very FIRST telecommunications company in all of North America to have an operational net-zero environmental impact. We have met our goal to be carbon-neutral by fall 2007! And achieved this special certification through a combination of our web-based infrastructure, environmental offsets and proactive environmental policies.

Our "Certified" Commitment

BetterWorld is the only telecom carrier in the United States tested and certified as a For Benefit company by B Corporation™, as donating at least 1% of revenues to environmental causes by One Percent For The Planet and as the only telecommunications carrier within North America to be carbon-neutral by Zerofootprint.

Our Products

While most of telecommunications happens in the wires, we are actively introducing and promoting new technologies such as hosted PBX, unified communications, VoIP, plus a suite of video and audio conferencing options that have less infrastructure and travel requirements, as well as being more energy efficient and productive.

Our Delivery

No More Paper!! Our clarion call, as part of our Environmental Impact Plan, is to significantly reduce or totally eliminate paper billing. We are well on our way to meeting this goal..

Our Office Practices

We invested millions into a paperless back-office system that is completely web based — you're looking at part of it now! What little need we have for paper, we use only 100% recycled paper, a great deal of which also incorporates tree-less Kanaf paper.

Our Global Effort

We are partnered with — and help support — many influential national and international organizations that are making a profound impact on a global basis such as the Earth Policy Institute and the Fair Trade Federation. In addition, we support local living economies and the integration of business and sustainability through our efforts with a number of BALLE chapters including Lowcountry Local First, the Greater Philadelphia Sustainable Business Network and other local networks such as the Sustainable Business Network of Washington (SBNOW)..

Things to note:

Billing

• More than 50% of our customers are on eBill and use our Autopay Options
• All paper billing on recycled paper, incentives offered for customers to eBill/Autopay

Workplace/General

• Any paper used, commuting and office activities to be offset as part of the BetterWorld Environmental Impact Plan
• Through our partnership with Trees For The Future, BetterWorld plants 1,000 trees per month to offset carbon emissions — more than 20,000 planted to date

Products

• Actively introducing our new unified communications and VoIP technologies that use less power and generate less of a equipment footprint on the customer premise

We are constantly reminded and inspired though, by our customers and partners of that larger purpose. They really help to keep us focused through their amazing work and missions with our future goals and priorities. We've even gone so far as to set up a “Wall of Fame” in our main office to highlight the homepages of many of our customers and partners. Their collective impact on social and environmental change is staggering; and we have collectively agreed that the opportunity to interact, serve and assist them in their missions is what we are most proud of in our work at BetterWorld.