Vancouver 2010 – Work Styles In Motion
The 2010 Olympic Winter Games provided our team an important opportunity to demonstrate our Work Styles program in action by embracing telecommuting and taking 1,000 vehicles off the streets of Vancouver.
Courage to innovate: Continuously improving efficiency and building a stronger green culture
Toward a more sustainable future through green initiatives
In 2010, the TELUS team remained committed to being a leading corporate citizen and reducing the overall environmental impact of our domestic and international operations, in line with our values. The strength of our environmental and sustainability culture at TELUS is the result of almost two decades of dedicated work in this field. Since we published our first environmental report in 1992, we have continued to evolve our environmental management and sustainability program to support what we believe is a best-in-class corporate responsibility programme. Our disclosure now aligns to the Global Reporting Initiative A+ level, we’ve been recognized as either a World or North American Leader on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the past decade and we have been twice named a Carbon Disclosure Leader by the Carbon Disclosure Project.
Our continued dedication to being an environmental leader and living up to our future friendly® brand promise has produced many milestones. The TELUS team has:
- Announced our climate change strategy, which commits TELUS to a 25 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and a 10 per cent overall energy reduction over the next 10 years
- Continued to align our environmental management system (EMS) with ISO 14001:2004 standard
- Seen our consumption of office paper drop from 117 million sheets in 2001 to 40 million in 2010
- Expanded our national network of Green Teams, comprised of dedicated individuals across Canada who volunteer their time to promote sustainability in the work place
- Transformed our real estate footprint by adhering to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) principles in all new buildings constructed. Our TELUS House Ottawa is now LEED Gold certified. Our TELUS House Toronto and TELUS House Quebec are targeting gold and silver respectively and the recently announced TELUS Garden head office development in Vancouver will see one of the two buildings be the first in Canada built to the new 2009 LEED Platinum standard
- Developed Work Styles program enabling our team members to work remotely, often at home, thereby reducing their own environmental impact and improving their work-life balance
- Promoted the use of Telepresence and teleconferencing technologies to reduce the cost and environmental impact of travel
- Continued to evolve our mobile device recycling program, resulting in almost 250,000 mobile devices recycled since 2007
- Supported conservation efforts in our communities through our TELUS Day of Giving™ and contributions to numerous environmental groups through our many support programs.
Looking forward to 2011 and beyond, we are focused on developing key sustainability initiatives to strengthen our corporate social responsibility efforts. We intend to further implement our climate change strategy to help us meet emission reduction targets, work on our supply chain sustainability and risk assessment and continue to align our environmental management system program to the ISO 14001:2004 standard. We are also looking for ways to bring innovative products to our customers that help them meet their sustainability goals. These include our teleconferencing and videoconferencing solutions which help our customers and business partners reduce their travel, a more energy efficient network and server virtualization projects, an expanding end-of-life mobile device recycling, and e.bill paperless options for our customers.
