Environment

Our business is the environment — individuals use our products and services to experience the natural world. We recognize that as our business grows, so does our environmental impact. Protecting and enhancing the natural world is essential to our future.

The best way we can protect and enhance the natural world is through strategic planning and structured action, as opposed to committing random, albeit well-intentioned, acts. To us, this means driving toward improvements in our practices year after year to reduce our impacts on the natural world while continually looking for breakthroughs we will need to achieve our long-term aspirations.

We recognize that we can't do it alone. We are committed to collaborating with industry partners, communities and nonprofit organizations to find better ways of reducing our impact on the planet.

We've identified the areas where we have the strongest opportunities to minimize our environmental footprint, provide the greatest return to the business and address the issues our members, employees and communities see as most pressing. These include reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), paper usage, waste and recycling, green building and product stewardship.

Comments

We invite your feedback on our 2007 stewardship report. Your comments will support our ongoing goal of providing relevant information that is important to our members, customers, partners, employees and others.