Ecofusion & the Environment
We, as a small business located in Washington, DC, are dedicated to the region's green business economy and are members of the Sustainable Business Network. Our striving toward carbon neutrality sets a standard of excellence for all our business processes. We are on our way to becoming a carbon neutral company, and are actively engaged in finding sustainable service providers and sources of goods and materials.
Since much of our operation uses electricity, Ecofusion has purchased 19 Green Tags from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation to offset what we have estimated as a significant portion (at least 80%) of the carbon emissions of our operations (27,000 lbs). This includes our air travel, electricity, vehicle usage, web servers/email and other miscellaneous carbon expenditures. We are currently exploring options to buy green energy from our electricity provider in the District of Columbia.
Our commitment to Green Tags was recently recognized by B-E-F and we ask our colleagues and preferred partners to match our efforts. Recently our colleagues at ONE Northwest took us up on our challenge and now offer a green web package to their environmentally focused non-profits. When choosing partners, service providers, and sub contractors, we either choose a like minded group or we talk with a potential group about mitigating their own impact (see what happened with ONE NW).
We take stock of what we are doing as we grow a a company, in order to understand how we can cut and reduce our own emissions, or emissions connected to the decisions we make. Along with our financial accounting, Ecofusion is working to examine how much carbon shows up on our balance sheet. By examining and documenting our annual greenhouse gas impacts, we can look for ways to reduce impacts as we move forward.
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