Plantronics (News - Alert), known for its personal audio communications for professionals and consumers, appears to be committed in its efforts to reduce impact on the environment.
Company officials say that the activities within the company to celebrate Earth Day are adequate measure of such efforts. In addition to raising environmental awareness among employees by hosting an Earth Day Fair, Plantronics has been installing solar panels at its corporate location.
Sandbar Solar & Electric, which has been assigned this job, is expected to complete the installation in Spring 2011. On completion, the installation is expected to be the largest solar installation in Santa Cruz County, with more than 80 percent of the company's corporate site utility bill expected to be offset by solar power.
NuLight Solutions is also installing sun tubes throughout the offices. These tubes are expected to collect and redirect sunlight. This will ensure that there is more natural light within the buildings.
The Earth Day fair, produced entirely by internal employee volunteers, gives various 'earth friendly' tip,s and the café at the corporate headquarters in Santa Cruz serves certified organic produce, strongly advocating the concept of true family farms. Officials say that by the end of 2012, 25 percent of all agribusiness products used by the café would be supplied by local farmers.
In a press release, Pat Wadors, Senior Vice President, Human Resources at Plantronics said, "Plantronics is proud of its efforts at increasing environmental awareness and energy savings. The response from our employees to these efforts has been extremely positive."
The existing solar array consists of 262,550W, while the new combined system, will total over 870,000W, the largest of its kind in the county.
In another news story, Plantronics celebrated its 50 year milestone with a look to the future by offering the new Plantronics UC toolkit, the industry’s first complete set of tools, training and documentation for expanding the growth of unified communications solutions and two new flagship products for the UC market, VoyagerPRO UC and Calisto825.
Mini Swamy is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by Rich Steeves