Salesforce.com offsest carbon footprint

Salesforce.com (CRM)is paying cold hard cash to offset the greenhouse gases produced by its corporate operations in 2006. The bill comes to $126,000, or about $6.40 per ton of carbon emitted.

The Web-based software company announced an initiative to neutralize its contribution to global warming by funding alternative energy and forest conservation projects.

Salesforce.com worked with the non-profit Cool Air Cool Planet and Native Energy, a Native American owned renewable energy company, to calculate that the San Francisco tech company's data centers, offices and corporate travel produced about 19,700 tons of carbon last year.

To compensate, the company's Salesforce.com Foundation will help finance wind farm projects in Alaska and South Dakota Salesforce.com will also work with Makiraforest Conservation International to preserve the ecologically endangered Makira rain forest in Madagascar.

Cool Air Cool Planet: http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/
Native Energy: http://www.nativeenergy.com/

SOURCE: January 16, 2007 Green Wombat post titled "Salesforce.com Goes Carbon Neutral" http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/2007/01/saleforcecom_go.html