Over the past few months, BetterWorld’s carbon footprint has been audited by BeGreen (www.begreennow.com), and we are pleased to report that we have moved our carbon footprint certification to BeGreen.
BeGreen Carbon Offsets are the latest sustainable product offered by BetterWorld Telecom customer and partner, Green Mountain Energy — BeGreen’s parent company. BeGreen’s identity as a carbon offset provider is linked with Green Mountain’s decade of experience supplying cleaner energy. Green Mountain Energy began in 1997 with a simple idea: “to change the way power is made”. Since then, Green Mountain has become the nation’s leading cleaner energy provider.
As the first renewable energy marketer to offer a carbon solutions product line, Green Mountain emphasizes that their vision reaches far beyond that of an electricity supplier. In 2006 they blazed a new trail, with the launch of their carbon offsetting division BeGreenNow. Since then, BeGreenNow has expanded to serve the carbon offsetting needs of both their individual and business customers.
Environmental integrity is the foundation of a trustworthy carbon offset provider. BeGreen carbon offsets, backed by the progressive mindset of Green Mountain Energy, provide reliable, transparent opportunities to invest in lower emitting technologies like renewable energy, forest restoration, and energy efficiency projects. They work with well known non-profit organizations like American Forests, The Pacific Forest Trust, The Voluntary Carbon Standard, and The Climate Trust to provide high quality carbon offsets. They also source high quality renewable energy credits from wind, solar, hydro, and biomass facilities nationally and have helped build over 35 Green Mountain Energy wind and solar installations to date.
We will be publishing BetterWorld’s detailed carbon footprint efforts in the 2008 BetterWorld Corporate Citizenship report, due out in the Spring of ‘09 – in addition to offsetting our own corporate footprint, we are in the process of creating the world’s first voice and data telecom usage offset, where we will be offsetting all of our customer network usage, helping to enhance our position as the leading environmental telecom carrier in North America.
Green Now,
Matt
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