Companies efforts to go green

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Several technology, energy,financial services and manufacturing compainies are taking steps in the effort to go green. While embracing these going green ways they are also seeing that they are saving millions of dollars every year.
Yahoo, UPS,Sierra Nevada Brewing, Ikea, Patagonia, Nike, Hewlett Packard are all just a few companies which are taking steps towards going green in their work sites and practices like their packaging and product development.
These going green practices for companies are helping them gain a competitive edge and adding strength to the bottem line.
I believe that we will be seeing great things from Sun Microsystems. Sun Microsystems is a technology gaint and the steps they are taking towards going green are by allowing thousands of its employees to work from home-by allowing employees to work from home has saved millions of dollars in fuel costs as well as real estate, they also are using cooler energy saving technology in its computer chips. This company also wants to reduce the greenhouse emissions by around 20% by the year 2012.
An offer from Firemans Fund Insurance is offering commercial clients insurance policies which promise that if their property is destroyed by disaster or fire the property will be rebuilt with the use of green materials as well as lighting and heating. Among the firemans clients these insurance policies are rapidly becomming popular. This product will continue to grow in popularity because it has been imitated by competitors.

Of course we wont be stamping out global warming any time soon, but everyone does have high hopes that if one part of the world does its part to help save us all, the rest will follow.