Company Incentives for Going Green?

Posted by Cliff on Monday October 24, 2005 @11:01AM from the may-your-car-exhaust-smell-like-french-fries dept.

Greenie asks: "With fuel costs reaching record highs and more eco-friendly vehicles on the market than ever before, one has to ask, is it making a difference (yet)? NewEnough.com is an online retailer of new and surplus/wholesale motorcycle apparel based in West Texas. Recently, they posted a letter to the public on their website about how they've 'gone green,' and are offering incentives to their employees for switching to modern, fuel efficient vehicles (hybrid electric, diesel, bio-diesel...). While the specifics of their incentive program were not discussed, has anyone ever heard of larger companies offering a similar incentive program? According to Fortune.com, Wal-Mart is the largest employer in America. If Wal-Mart, McDonalds, UPS, GM, and Ford, the five companies that Fortune lists as having the most employees, all offered a similar incentive, more than 2,865,700 people would be eligible for incentive to go green. That could really start to make a difference for the environment. Now imagine the environmental benefit of every company in America making this same incentive offer..."

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Yeah, sure by gerf · 2005-10-24 11:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You know, everyone in my company recently donated $5 to a scholarship for a disabled kid.

If everyone in China, Russia, the US, India and Brazil, the LARGEST countries in the world, donated $5 per person, we could buy this kid a new pair of legs!

C'mon, geeks are too realistic/sarcastic/pessimistic for this type of a /. submission. I hope.