Earth Tones – The Environmental Internet and Phone Company
Earth Tones provides internet access, long distance telephone and wireless phone services and they have been donating 100% of their profits to grassroots environmental organizations since 1993.
Earth Tones was founded by a coalition of non-profit organizations in 1993. Over a decade later they continue to be completely owned and operated by non-profit groups, allowing them to deliver 100% of their profits to environmental causes. Their mission is to provide high-quality communications services and great customer service while giving customers tools to help protect the planet. Every wireless customer they have, each long distance call their land-line customers make, and each internet subscriber who is on their service means money going directly to grassroots oranizations working to protect air, water and wilderness.
The environmental organizations they support are:
- “The State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs): The State PIRGs act as watchdogs for consumers and the environment in 35 states nationwide. Through research, public education and public interest advocacy, the PIRGs have won hundreds of reforms from statewide bottle bills to strengthening clean air standards and defending the Endangered Species Act. The State PIRGs collected over 1 million public comments that resulted in the implementation of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which protects 58.5 million acres of Americas last wild places from destructive activities like road building and most commercial logging.
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National Environmental Law Center: NELC takes illegal polluters to court and develops new policy solutions to protect the environment. Since its inception, NELC attorneys have won over 80 civil and criminal cases, forcing polluters to pay to clean up their environmental damages. For example, NELC filed a Clean Water Act suit against Dow Chemical Company for unlawful discharges of phosphorus and pesticides. This resulted in the federal court ordering Dow to pay $1 million in fines and to make extensive changes to its wastewater treatment system.
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The Green Life: For nearly 15 years The Green Life has supported individuals who choose to live green as a service to themselves, their communities and their environment. Through their e-newsletters and other tools, they keep concerned people updated on what’s happening throughout the wider world of green living.
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Campaign to Save the Environment: The Campaign operates over 60 citizen outreach field offices each summer, placing more than 4,000 college students in grassroots campaign jobs nationwide. Students and citizens working for the Campaign talk to hundreds of thousands of people a year about important work being done by the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and other grassroots organizations.
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Toxics Action Center: TAC assists neighborhood groups fighting toxic hazards in their communities. Since 1987, TAC has helped more than 200 groups in their campaigns to clean up toxic waste sites, reduce industrial use of toxic chemicals, and stop the building of unsafe industrial waste facilities.
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ecopledge.com: Connecting thousands of green consumers on-line, ecopledge.com organizes the power of consumers and investors to encourage corporations to make changes in their damaging environmental policies. For example, ecopledge.com was a key player in a coalition that recently convinced Staples to stop using wood from endangered forests in their products and to set a minimum recycled content for all of their paper products.
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Recycling Action Campaign: Recycling Action works with Massachusetts residents to pressure corporations, state government, and municipal governments to develop and implement policies to reduce waste and increase recycling. Recycling Action provides background information on effective policies, organizing assistance and a network of activists and experts to assist residents in local campaigns.
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Free the Planet!: The mission of Free the Planet! is to build support for environmental protections while empowering students - as the next generation of leaders – to revitalize the core of the environmental movement. Free the Planet! works on hundreds of college campuses across the country teaching students how to run effective environmental campaigns on their colleges and in their communities. “
In addition to delivering their profits to environmental causes, Earth Tones also provides enironmental information and education for their customers by sending regular “Green Alerts”. These monthly updates provide information on pressing environmental issues and give customers easy ways to get involved and have their voice heard. Long distance customers receive toll-free numbers to call Congress and other decision-makers for free.
Earth Tones also strives to make all of their services as gentle on the planet as possible. Their bills come on 100% recycled paper and electronic, tree-free billing is strongly encouraged. They use recycled wireless handsets and will recycled your old wireless phones, as well.
For more information, go to: http://earthtones.com/default.asp
