The
SAS solar farm went live today. In honor of such a huge milestone, I'm reprinting this question from a recent interview with
Alyssa Farrell, Marketing Manager for Sustainability Solutions at SAS.
What positive effects have you observed from embracing sustainability at SAS?
Alyssa Farrell: We have found that putting more attention on sustainability helps drive innovation in the workplace. We recently ran a project at SAS called The EcoFamily Challenge. Our employees and their families were challenged to come up with five sustainable activities every week for a month. The result was a lot of innovation at home and new ideas that employees brought to the office environment. Our marketing group now has a special task force that looks at ways to reduce waste at the conferences we manage. Our technology group is expanding reuse, recycling and donation of outdated equipment and employing techniques to maximize cooling efficiency in our data centers. We’ve also implemented a wide variety of initiatives to reduce water and energy use in our facilities, from energy management systems in buildings to recycling cooking oil for conversion to biodiesel fuel to exploring solar power generation on our Cary campus.
Read our complete interview with Alyssa in the article
The benefits of going green, from the
fourth quarter 2008 issue of sascom. You can also read
posts from Alyssa on this blog.
