Computrition, Inc. - With Respect to Sustainability:

It is Computrition's mission and aim to act as stakeholders of the environment and our community, as well as protectors of our team and customers as a result. We are steadfast in our desire to maintain fair business practices and to cultivate valuable industry partnerships with fellow vendors and suppliers aspiring to affect the same initiative.

Computrition commits to make each business decision with consideration to its ultimate environmental, social, fiscal and fair-trade impact in mind.

Our Mission in Action:

PRODUCT

• Our products by their nature have a tremendous impact on the reduction of paper waste throughout our customers’ operations.
• We perform consistent research on the most environmentally sound methods of eliminating the carbon footprint and emissions created from our normal business practices.
• A corporate decision has been made to extend scheduled update releases from approximately every 6-8 months to 12-18 month intervals, distributing new versions on request, to ease our customers’ daily business practices, as well as to reduce the volume of CDs and the respective emissions created in the shipping process therein.
• We offer truly integrated and dynamic interfaces with other best-of-breed technology vendors, reducing hardware/server required maintenance and quantities required, enabling the usage of multiple automated solutions via a single server.
• Our flexible network infrastructure allows customers to easily create virtualized operational environments whereby processes can be consolidated and centralized, while maintaining multi-site flexibility or varying degrees of autonomy when desired.
• We provide customers with the option to deploy via a managed hosting service model so as not to require the acquisition of potentially unnecessary additional hardware.

MARKETING

• We are revamping all marketing materials, quantities required for distribution, and are employing the sole use of FSC compliant printing partners.
• We are creating new product packaging and promotional materials in collaboration with our selected printing partners to ensure reduction of energy waste, while promoting visual appeal.
• All marketing materials and product demos are posted on www.computrition.com to reduce paper waste and unnecessary fuel consumption in transport.
• We have transitioned almost all trade show booth décor from an older 2,500 pound wood crate to a 35-pound reusable plastic self-contained unit.

OPERATIONS

• We supply traditional ceramic coffee mugs and beverage glassware to team members in lieu of disposables.
• When possible, we support arranging for web-based presentations rather than on-site product demos to reduce fuel consumption in transport.
• We allow team members to telecommute whenever possible and we position sales, training, and implementation team members regionally to reduce time, energy, and fuel.
• Posting all internal documents in a centralized electronic repository to reduce the paper trail is standard practice in each of our offices.
• Lights are always turned off and equipment is unplugged when not in use.
• All light bulbs in our corporate office have been changed to fluorescent bulbs and we've suggested that our team members do the same at home.
• Each of our employees were given a live plant for their desk, on Earth Day, to replace the oxygen depleted from overhead lighting and computer usage.

BEYOND THE OFFICE

• Additionally, we encourage Computrition team members, along with anyone interested, in improving our communities and environment to consider making these minor changes beyond our office environments. 
• If you employ specific green measures in your operation that you think would be informative to others, please feel free to share your suggestions at http://blog.computrition.com/2010/09/08/canada-it-truly-is-green-on-the-other-side/.