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• As a member of the Green Power Leadership Club, Cisco purchases green power to meet 50 percent of its annual electricity needs. This green power is generated mostly from biomass sources with some wind, solar, and biogas.
• Business Ethics Magazine has named Cisco among the top 100 most ethical corporations
• Click here to see how Cisco achieved environmental sustainability in the workplace http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ciscoitatwork/downloads/ciscoitatwork/pdf/Cisco_IT_Case_Study_Green_Office_Design_Summary.pdf
• Sixty per cent of Cisco's carbon emissions is generated by air travel.  Cisco aims to decrease this by 20% within the next 18 months, by using videoconferencing and building TelePresence facilities around the world. The next Australian Netherlands Roundtable will take place in TelePresence facilities in those countries.
• Cisco is promoting such earth-saving initiatives as traffic managment with RFID installed in cars, location tracking of public transportation, smart meters to reduce CO2 emission.
• Cisco will promote these initiatives in Amsterdam, San Francisco and Seoul, according to BuddeBlog.
• See latest Cisco green news and press releases at Cisco Green http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2008/hd_030308.html