June 10, 2008 | Filed under: Announcements, by Nick | No Comments »

Initially released as an ADX-sponsored campaign, we have decided to transition Cleaner Commerce into an industry-wide initiative. Individual companies like ADX enable several thousand customers to accomplish environmental savings on the order of millions of sheets of paper each year. The combination of all the related e-commerce players out there helps hundreds of thousands of businesses save billions and billions of sheets of paper each month. The Cleaner Commerce initiative is all about driving positive environmental change in business, and we will be most successful as an industry-wide initiative.

What that means right now is that we are going to focus our efforts on reaching out to potential sponsors who want to participate, or take a leadership role, in Cleaner Commerce. The goal is to develop a core group of twenty supporting organizations by August 2008.

What is in it for sponsors?

Consumers and businesses are expressing ever greater concern about the environment, and with rising resource prices, they are now desperate to find more efficient ways to do business. As it turns out, E-Commerce service providers offer a way for their customers to reduce their environmental impacts (less paper required to do business) and to improve operational efficiency (less time/money spent on paper-work). Sponsors of Cleaner Commerce become environmental leaders as they support an initiative that pushes for greater adoption of environmentally friendly and efficient business practices.

Win-Win

As an industry-wide initiative, Cleaner Commerce will work day and night to build awareness of the environmental impacts of paper-based business processes, and the benefits of transitioning to E-Commerce. Emphasizing and drawing attention to the environmental savings that result from less paper usage, Cleaner Commerce will help grow the entire E-Commerce industry and especially its supporters.

As the E-Commerce industry grows, the environmental impacts of thousands of businesses decrease as they switch to ever more efficient ways of doing business. It is good for business and the environment.

Talk to us

We welcome your feedback, and if you are a company interested in becoming a sponsor of Cleaner Commerce, please contact us.