About the Program
To the right is a list of companies and organizations who have made the commitment to become net environmentally neutral. If your
organizations has made the commitment, email your logo to this
address [] and give us the URL you'd like us to link to.

Case Study: CrownPeak
CrownPeak, a 40-person software company in Los Angeles, California, was used as the model for the initial study. The net environmental impact for CrownPeak in the year of the study was translated to $1,286.65, of which $493.60 was for Carbon Emissions Offset and $793.05 was for Non-Carbon Environmental Impact. Because the cost to become sustainable was low and the halo-effect for the company is relatively high, the board approved declaring CrownPeak a sustainable company in the year of the study, 2007, and for all future years. The company was able to issue a statement on its web site that it is a sustainable corporation. Along with this statement, the company will publish the actual calculations, along with the steps it plans to take to reduce impact in the future. A figure of approximately $4/short ton of CO2 was used for the calculation of emissions. That figure was taken from the Chicago Climate Exchange, a market for trading carbon credits. CrownPeak will decide at the end of each calendar year, where to donate the offset costs for carbon and for non-carbon impacts. At the time of this study, CrownPeak was planning to donate the carbon emissions dollar offset to one organization and the non-carbon impact offset to a separate organization.