Business 100 Green Initiatives

Ebay prides itself on promoting sustainability through commerce: sales of used laptop computers in 2007 reduced 69,000 tons of GHG, the equivalent of saving 467 acres of forest.

FedEx

Donald Colleran, Executive VP, Sales

FedEx has taken several environmental initiatives over the past several years and was ranked #1 in 2009 on the EPA’s Top 20 Printers List “of the largest green power purchasers in the commercial printing business,” according to its website. It is also part of the EPA’s Green Power Challenger, which encourages Fortune 500 businesses to invest in renewable resources.

 

In 2009, FedEx revealed plans to install the largest rooftop solar power system in the US at its distribution hub in Woodbridge, NJ. The system will be capable of producing “2.6 million kilowatt hours of electricity a year” and will provide about 30% of the hub’s energy. FedEx has also recently increased its Hybrid-Electric fleet of trucks by 50%, making it the largest fleet of hybrid-electric delivery trucks in the world.

FICO

Tom Bradley, CFO and Executive VP

FICO’s “Sustainable Enterprise Initiative is aimed at reducing our carbon footprint through the use of cloud computing, virtualization and other advanced technologies that enable us to conserve energy and natural resources.” Started in 2008, the initiative plans to reduce energy consumption of the IT infrastructure by 50% and paper use by 80% by 2010. In addition, FICO is a member of The Green Grid (www.thegreengrid.org), a “global consortium dedicated to developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centers.”

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