Demonstrating Leadership through Our Comprehensive Environmental Impact Plan
In 2007, BetterWorld completed its carbon neutral certification and program implementation, making BetterWorld the FIRST and only carbon-neutral telecom carrier in North America. Details of our ongoing Environmental Impact Plan are highlighted below:
- Carbon-Neutral: Certified by Climate Cooler, click here for a detailed plan of our impact and Climate Cooler's economic input/output offset methodolgy – in addition to our corporate footprint, we continue to lead the industry by offsetting ALL of our customer's usage and network impacts
- Website Powered by the Wind: 100% of BetterWorld's operations are web based and our web partner, Sustainable Hosting , is 100% offset by wind power
- Environmentally Efficient Corporate Design: By design, our corporate footprint and operational systems are cloud based and not tied to specific buildings or locations, which keeps our commuting, heating, cooling and other environmental impacts to a minimum
- Paper Reduction: We have significantly reduced our paper output, over 80% of our customer revenue is now eBilled every month, any paper that we generate or create is recycled, including any marketing materials, which also use soy inks
- Products: Our BetterWork™ solution framework focuses on cloud communications to take advantage of leading technologies that are driven by converged, more efficient networks – this allows organizations to create anywhere/anytime work dynamics that significantly reduce their own environmental footprints
- Donations: Continuation of our 3% of top-line revenue donation to causes supporting social justice, the environment and fair trade
- Volunteerism: Each person donates on average 2.5 workdays per month to causes that support children, education and the environment