Mission:
The mission of Cleaner Commerce is to reduce the environmental impacts of commerce, starting with paper.

Background:
Cleaner Commerce is sponsored by Advanced Data Exchange (ADX), a provider of E-Commerce solutions for thousands of companies. ADX’s E-Commerce solutions enable companies to trade business documents like invoices and POs electronically, thus eliminating the paper traditionally used to fax and mail these documents.

Going paper-free helps companies save money, time, and reduces their environmental impacts. ADX believes in “Environmental Capitalism”- that businesses can do good things for the environment and make a profit at the same time.

Recognizing the inherent environmental benefits of its solutions, ADX formed the Cleaner Commerce campaign to promote paper-saving technologies, and to work towards fostering greater efficiency in all of commerce. We hope you join us in our quest.

Approach:

• Inform: Ongoing research forms a basis of facts about the environmental and social impacts of commerce, starting with an emphasis on paper.
• Engage: Outreach efforts spread awareness of the harm caused by using too much paper, and encourage organizations to take steps and implement solutions to use less.
• Collaborate: Forming connections with businesses, environmental organizations, and other stakeholders, we will work together to identify ways to reduce the impacts from commerce.
• Implement: Ongoing research, outreach and collaboration will culminate in the implementation of cleaner technologies that will help companies become more efficient.

Staff:
With guidance from the ADX management team, Cleaner Commerce is led by Environmental Specialist Nick Harris along with his team of interns from the University of California’s prestigious environmental programs.