Now It's Official — BetterWorld, The Environmental Leader in the Telecom Industry
In 2007, BetterWorld completed its certification and program implementation with Zero Footprint, making BetterWorld the FIRST carbon-neutral telecom carrier in North America. In addition to our other initiatives, we have now achieved our Environmental Impact goals for 2007 and are embarking on Phase Two of our plan, which will be completed in stages by 2009. Here are the highlights of Phase One:
- Carbon-Neutral: Zero Footprint carbon-neutral certification completed and offset program implemented
- Website Powered by the Wind: BetterWorld website moved to wind powered/offset provider — Sustainable Hosting
- Environmentally Efficient Corporate Design: By design, we won't ever have a large footprint, all back office and customer/partner systems are web based, which is powered by the wind!
- Paper Reduction: We have significantly reduced our paper output, over 80% of our customer revenue is now eBilled per month, and all paper bills are 100% recycled, as well as all of our marketing materials, which also use soy inks
- Tree Planting: We are now planting 1,000 trees every month through our partner Trees for the Future, in the tropics where it is most effective…we’ve plated over 30,000 to date
- Donations: Continuation of our 3% of top-line revenue donation to causes supporting social justice and the environment
- Volunteerism: Each person donates on average one-half of one workday per month to causes that support children, education and the environment
- Products: We are introducing and selling new VoIP and unified communications products that use less power and have less equipment and wiring footprint
Our next goal — slated for completion in 2008 — is to be the first telecom provider in the world to create and implement an offset for our customer's voice and data usage.