Sustainability
Perspective
Innovative approaches to "triple net" (financial, environmental, and social sustainability) bottom lines create an ecology for long-term business success.
For a detailed look at services and expertise of value to sustainability organizations and initiatives, click here.
Energy Stewards
Challenge: Consulting practice with online community software for building energy efficiency sought to grow business and improve financial performance.
Solution: Refocused business model from time-&-materials service to high-value programs enabling power utilities meet energy efficiency, regulatory, and other stakeholder objectives.
Vertatique
Vertatique - Sustainable Computing, Media, Devices is a public service initiative that supports the efforts of progressive enterprises and practitioners and that informs Matt's work. Vertatique also provides a testbed for rapid deployment of web assets using open source and other agile development resources.
Website Statement of Sustainable Computing
This website strives for sustainability through these actions:
- Site runs on an Intel 5100 series server with energy-saving features.
- Hosting uses virtualization to reduce energy consumption / heat generation from idling resources during periods of low utilization.
- Office is powered by 100% renewable energy (wind) and practices office paper source reduction and recycling.
- Offset carbon emissions from the operation of externally-hosted website.
- Disposal of out-of-service electronics through an ISO 14001 certified recycler.
