Today we celebrate Earth Day’s 45th anniversary by highlighting a variety of activities that demonstrate Symantec’s commitment to environmental stewardship and promoting the future sustainability of our planet. From the culmination of our One Mug, One Planet campaign, to shutting down the water feature in the Mountain View headquarters’ courtyard, to the launch of our employee sustainability tool, there are many ways we as individuals and a global company celebrate Earth Day every day, integrating environmental stewardship into aspects of our work and personal lives.
Culmination of our One Mug, One Planet Campaign
Our One Mug, One Planet Campaign, launched on Earth Day of last year, encourages employees to reduce their use of paper cups by choosing a reusable alternative. The campaign closes today and has seen great success and engagement within the company.
We surpassed our original goal of 1,000 pledges with over 2,400 Symantec employees (or 24% of all employees) committing to reduce their use of paper cups.
If those employees who signed the pledge use their reusable mug instead of a paper cup everyday for one year, they will save 208,887 lbs of CO2. and 55,223 lbs[1] of waste!
As the campaign comes to a close, we would like to thank all those employees who participated, engaged in dialogue, joined their local Green Team, and continue to be an advocate for sustainability here at Symantec.
And an Earth Day congratulations to our second “Mug Shot” winner, Sean Dyer, Inside Territory Manager, based out of our Heathrow, Florida office!
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The One Mug, One Planet campaign comes to a close with over 2,000 participants pledging to use a reusable mug every day. “Mug Shot” contest winner Sean Dyer showing off his reusable mug.
Sean has been using a reusable mug for some time and was excited to participate in the One Mug, One Planet campaign. He also took this opportunity to show off his mustache “Mug Shot”, a result of a friendly office mustache growing competition. Sean continues to be a sustainability advocate, inspiring his colleagues to reduce their use of paper cups as well as engaging in conversations regarding environmental issues around the office. Sean’s favorite drink to enjoy in his reusable mug is a Starbucks dark roast coffee.
Check out some of our other great “Mug Shots” below. Although our campaign has ended, the need to recycle has not and we encourage everyone to continue to choose to reuse!
Siddharth Mankad and Shruti Dandekar - Pune, India
David Roche – Springfield, Oregon
Gurjeet Mann - Mountain View
Jeff Sundin – Beaverton, OR
Linda Brennan – Blanchardstown, Ireland
Living Earth Day Every Day
We have all heard it a lot – every day is Earth Day! And at Symantec we couldn’t agree more. So below we provide a few examples[2] of simple actions you can take today and every day to celebrate Earth Day and reduce your impact on the environment:
- Turn your work computer off at night (5pm-9am)
- If you turn your computer off every night for the next year you could save about 273 kWh and 332 pounds of CO2.
- Switch to online bill pay
- 38,500 paper bills is equivalent to one ton of paper. If 38,500 customers switch to paperless billing they will save close to 16,450 gallons of water, 1,941 pounds of solid waste, and 5,058 pounds of green house gasses.
- Stop idling your car
- Every gallon of fuel that is burned produces about 20 pounds of CO2.
- Buy an Energy Star washing machine
- An ENERGY STAR clothes washer uses about 70% less energy and 75% less water than a standard washer used 20 years ago.
Stay tuned for later this month, when we will highlight the sustainability work our Global Green Teams and employee volunteers have been doing in celebration of Earth Day!
And for any questions regarding our environmental or philanthropic programs please contact community_relations@symantec.com.