Genuitec, LLC, the provider of MyEclipse integrated development environment (IDE) and a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation, announced their commitment to being a company with a near-zero carbon footprint.

"Genuitec has been an environmentally-conscious organization since its inception," said Maher Masri, CEO for Genuitec. "We're happy to publicly address our commitment to minimize our impact on the environment as well as provide our customers with a great product and dollar value. By doing so, we're able to address the two pressing issues of the day: economic uncertainty and environmental responsibility."

Genuitec demonstrates their commitment to environmental responsibility in many ways. First, as a virtual organization, Genuitec does not contribute to gas pollution by requiring employee commute times. It also eliminates the high energy costs of maintaining an office space. Second, all Genuitec company communications, conferences, meetings and Webinars are virtual, which makes the organization practically paperless and minimizes further environmental impact. Third, by providing downloaded products and not physical media, Genuitec is able to save plastic wastes and virtually eliminate mailing/delivery costs and materials. All of these efforts combined means Genuitec saves over 70 metric tons of CO2 per year from entering the atmosphere.

As a participant in many conferences across the world, Genuitec does create a carbon footprint through air and auto travel - two of the largest culprits in greenhouse gas emissions. To offset this factor, Genuitec has joined with the CarbonFund.org Foundation to become a "CarbonFree Business," certifying Genuitec's full carbon offset. By participating in carbon offsetting, Genuitec invests in clean, renewable energy and negates the environmental impact of corporate travel and other ancillary business emissions.

"Sustainability should concern companies of all different shapes and sizes, which need to make clear, auditable commitments to lowering their carbon footprint," said James Governor, Principle Analyst at RedMonk. "Even software businesses have an impact, which is why it's good to see Genuitec's leadership here, with its 'measure, then manage, then reduce' strategy."

Additionally, Genuitec is offering a special to anyone attending the MyEclipse training track at EclipseWorld. Genuitec will donate to the CarbonFund.org organization to offset any carbon footprints created as a result of traveling to the Washington D.C. area for the conference. Save some green by registering with the code "genuitec" and save $100 off your full-access passport and make the world a bit greener as well.

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