Responsibility Blog

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If you’ve ever seen even one of our ads on TV, you come away with one core message: Verizon… It’s “The” network. 

It’s with that message in mind that I’ve been going around the country inviting people to join the network effect. I’m not asking folks to become Verizon customers; although, I’m obviously not opposed to that.

I’m asking customers, employees, community members and our business and nonprofit partners to get involved in sustainability, share new ideas, and when possible to support our sustainability efforts.  

In 2009, energy conservation and recycling efforts at Verizon cut CO2 emissions by more than 793 million pounds, but we want to do more.

I’m asking folks to build on our results by finding convenient, lower-carbon alternatives: Receiving and paying your bill electronically; printing double-sided, black & white; recycling your eWaste like old mobile phones and chargers; skipping a trip by using a DVR to rent a movie and Web conferencing instead of traveling for meetings. These actions all have a positive impact on our individual and collective carbon footprints:

• If half of the 2.5 billion movies rented annually were delivered via Video on Demand, it would save enough energy to meet the electricity needs of about 200,000 homes for a year.

• Because Verizon employees in just one building have set their office printers to print double-sided, black and white, we expect to save 6.5 million sheets of paper per year. 

• Last year, Verizon employees held 8,000 virtual meetings, avoiding the equivalent of 3,629 metric tons of CO2 emissions.

As the network company, we operate under the belief that the value of something increases as more people use it. So when it comes to increasing the sustainability of our operations, we’re asking you to join the network effect.

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I think that environmentally-wise that it is great that you are doing that.  However, I can't help but forget how crazy Verizon is driving me.  I refuse to call Verizon because if I wanted to talk to a script reader from another country, I would call bollywood.  Billing is unbelievable and when I called them between two individuals after 20 mins. and they still had not gotten my phone number after I repeated it over over and slower and slower I asked for a supervisor and she did not know anything, not only about your billing but any basic concepts of accounting.  If I send an email and I send an email about the email system, they send me an email on how to use email.  I have been in Information Management since 1970's before we even had personal computers.  I started as a programmer for mainframes AH NO CELL PHONE, NO TEXTING how did I get by.  So, after working for a major defense contractor for 15 years as Mgr IT for special programs, I also designed and launched database and websites.  Anyhoo I know what the heck I'm talking about.  There are some websites that maybe you should see .....  I am not the only one who feels his way.  I DO SO ENJOY THE DIRECT TV THOUGH!

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I am not even sure that this would be the correct person to talk to but hopefully I can get pointed into the right direction.  I am o voice for the town in which I live in and wanting to find out information on how an older community can become more up to date with today's technological trends.  Now Verizon is the area telephone company hence the reason I am turning towards you.   If you could please contact me through my email {edited for privacy}with either advice or who I should be contacting.