President Obama’s Inaugural Address spoke about “responsibility”, and “global warming” among other things.  As a response to the President’s Address, an Alpharetta training company is taking responsibility for its contribution towards global warming.

Venza Group specializes in computer based training and consulting.  This is not a company that you would normally think of as being particularly damaging to the environment.  However, the company worked with Green Mountain Energy to determine Venza Group’s CO2 footprint and to develop a strategy for off setting that footprint.

After analyzing not just the electricity used by the company but also all travel, both air and land,  by its employees, Venza Group discovered that it was responsible for 47 metric tons of CO2 emissions.  The company put this amount in perspective with the following observation,”…that is about the same environmental impact as driving a car almost 115,000 miles!”

Venza Group decided to offset 100 percent of its emissions.  It will accomplish this goal through “a combination of Renewable Energy Credits and Forest Sequestration.”  Altogether these offsets will equal “taking about 9 cars off the road annually or planting more than 6,150 trees. Furthermore, the offset has the same environmental impact as recycling over 253,000 aluminum cans and recycling over 41,100 pounds of newspaper.”

Venza Group is just one company that has taken the initiative to address its contribution to global warming.  If large companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, CBS, ABC, NBC, Donald Trump’s empire and the strip in Las Vegas, just to name a few, were to offset their own CO2 footprint emissions, the world would be a cleaner and cooler place.

Other energy sucks like Universities and Government buildings could not only cut down on their CO2 emissions through the addition of green technology such as solar panels, but could also offset the remaining carbon emissions through purchasing Renewable Energy Credits and Forest Sequestration, like Venza Group did.

How about it Donald Trump, why not put an intern in charge of setting it up?

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Entry was posted on Monday, January 26th, 2009 at 11:51 pm under Green Technology.

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