Mission:
The mission of Cleaner Commerce is to reduce the environmental impacts of commerce, starting with paper.

Background:
Cleaner Commerce is sponsored by Advanced Data Exchange (ADX), a provider of E-Commerce solutions for thousands of companies. ADX’s E-Commerce solutions enable companies to trade business documents like invoices and POs electronically, thus eliminating the paper traditionally used to fax and mail these documents.

Going paper-free helps companies save money, time, and reduces their environmental impacts. ADX believes in “Environmental Capitalism”- that businesses can do good things for the environment and make a profit at the same time.

Recognizing the inherent environmental benefits of its solutions, ADX formed the Cleaner Commerce campaign to promote paper-saving technologies, and to work towards fostering greater efficiency in all of commerce. We hope you join us in our quest!

Approach:

• Inform: Ongoing research forms a basis of facts about the environmental and social impacts of commerce, starting with an emphasis on paper.
• Engage: Outreach efforts spread awareness of the harm caused by using too much paper, and encourage organizations to take steps and implement solutions to use less.
• Collaborate: Forming connections with businesses, environmental organizations, and other stakeholders, we will work together to identify ways to reduce the impacts from commerce.
• Implement: Ongoing research, outreach and collaboration will culminate in the implementation of cleaner technologies that will help companies become more efficient.

Staff:
With guidance from the ADX management team, Cleaner Commerce is led by Environmental Specialist Nick Harris along with his team of interns from the University of California’s prestigious environmental programs. Learn more about who we are!