April eMail update

Reducing Transportation Emissions

Now that the winter ice is clear from the roads, pump up your bike tires and take advantage of the network of bike trails that Madison has to offer. For every mile you bike (or walk) instead of drive, you will save one pound of carbon dioxide. Every gallon of gasoline saved keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. If you reduce your gasoline usage by 2 gallons every week, you will save almost one metric ton of carbon per year!

Check out the Mpowered Businesses for creative ways to reduce your transportation emissions: Planet Bike can set you up with a new alternative to your car, Mocco Market delivers lunch using bikes instead of cars and Simple Networking Consulting will soon be able to help you telecommute to work!

MpowerPartner: MGE

Most of you know MGE by their Green Power Tomorrow Program. If you are already powering your home with wind power, congratulations! If not, think about joining the 10,000 residences that have bought wind power! MGE is also improving their own effects on the atmosphere by switching their fleet trucks to bio-diesel. Bio-diesel produces significantly less air pollution than petroleum fuel. Learn more about how MGE is committed to protecting the environment.

Meet Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt

Karl-Henrik Robèrt, MD, PhD, is one of Sweden's foremost cancer scientists as well as the founder of The Natural Step. The Natural Step focuses on ways for businesses and communities to approach social, ecological and economic sustainability. In 1999 Dr. Robèrt won the Green Cross Award for International Leadership, and in 2000 he won the Blue Planet Prize, the ‘Nobel prize’ for ecological sustainability, sponsored by the Asahi Glass Foundation. Over the last two years, sixteen Wisconsin communities have officially adopted The Natural Step sustainability framework and are committed to incorporating principles of sustainability into their community and municipal planning processes, policy and projects.

Simple Networking Consulting takes the pledge and can help other business meet their own

Simple Networking Consulting is doing their part to keep business related travel to a minimum. As a technology consulting firm onsite visits with clients have been normal for the past fifteen years. Now, with the use of remote access SNC has reduced their business travel by over 80%! Their clients can also utilize remote access. One client with over 35 locations across the state has greatly reduced business travel thanks to SNC. In the next couple of months, SNC clients should expect to start communicating with teleconferencing - not just interacting over the phone but with video too! Simple Networking Consulting is an advocate of green computing and can help your business greatly reduce office energy costs. You can meet SNC at the Going Green Expo in May where they will be exhibiting.