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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Telecommunications provider Verizon Business (www.verizonbusiness.com) recently announced that many of its employees in Dallas, Boston and Tulsa are volunteering in local projects in support of Wednesday's Earth Day.
"Through their volunteer efforts, Verizon Business employees around the country are joining their colleagues from other Verizon groups to express a strong commitment to their communities," says Bob Toohey, senior vice president of human resources at Verizon Business. "These volunteer activities, combined with the company's overall conservation efforts, reflect our commitment to operate in an environmentally responsible way. Verizon Business also helps other companies reduce their own carbon footprint globally through the communications and IT services we offer."
This past Saturday, Verizon Business employees in the Dallas area participated in two activities during a half-day volunteer project at the Trinity River Audubon Center's nature reserve.
The employees worked on different landscaping projects, such as planting native grass seed, removing unwanted plants around the Great Egret Pond, and improving the TRAC's trail system.
As part of the TRAC program, Verizon Business employees with younger children participated in one of the self-guided nature lessons TRAC is developing.
After the lesson, the parents and children met with a TRAC nature educator to suggest improvements to the lessons, which will be incorporated into the self-guided curriculum before the program is offered to the public.
Verizon Business employees in the Boston area will participate in the 10th Annual Earth Day Charles River Cleanup on April 25 by picking up garbage near the Hatch Shell in the Esplanade.
The cleanup is organized by collaborative groups interested in environmental and river issues.
Earlier in April, Verizon Business employees in the Tulsa area participated in the Metropolitan Environmental Trust's Household Pollution Collection Event.
The bi-annual event gives northeast Oklahoma residents the opportunity to properly dispose of items such as pesticides, automotive fluids, batteries, fluorescent light bulbs, pool chemicals as well as unused or out of date prescription medications.
Verizon Business says it is involved in many different environmental practices, including outfitting its data centers with more energy efficient light fixtures, promoting paper and aluminum recycling, installing motion sensors in unstaffed rooms, using only "green" cleaning materials in its housekeeping, encouraging landscaping companies to use earth-friendly pesticides, and offering customers paperless billing options.
With Earth Day just around the corner, many companies are issuing press releases that focus on their environmentally-friendly practices and achievements
Data center operator and hosting provider Terremark Worldwide announced Monday it has been named one of IDG's Computerworld top Green-IT Organizations for 2009, while The Uptime Institute and US Department of Energy announced last week the winners of the Green Enterprise IT Awards.
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