Island's Commitment to the Environment

Island has been fortunate in so many respects, especially at this early stage of our life as a company. To us, that good fortune isn’t just a positive outcome of our past efforts, but a responsibility for the future. To take some of that success, and turn it outwards by improving the communities and the world around us. 

In that light, we’ve made certain commitments regarding our carbon footprint.

We’re still a small organization, so our impact at this stage may not be gigantic. But we feel every step in the right direction is an important one. It’s a way for us to use whatever resources we have to better the world around us — no matter how big or small.

Our first initiative was to commit to making our products carbon neutral. To do that, we partner with a carbon offset provider as well as contribute to key emission-reduction projects. And we’re proud to be able to say that this is our third consecutive year we’ve successfully offset our carbon emissions.

Here are the initiatives we participate in to make these offsets possible:

• A Bearadise, Alaska: This project ensures the survival of old growth forests that will reduce about 1.5 million tonnes of carbon in 30 years, providing a safe home for area animals and clean air for Earth.‍
• Walk in the Woods, Montana: To restore carbon stocks in the Thompson River Basin area, this project defers commercial timber harvest activities and implements improved forest management practices that enhance growth of a natural mix of trees.
• The Giving Trees, Kenya and Uganda: This project helps small communities plant trees to create a nature-based carbon removal system that helps train leaders and pull families out of poverty.

But it goes further than internal initiatives and our product itself. Island also offsets the heavy footprint coming from the hardware and compute-intensive products and services we displace for our customers, such as desktop virtualization and traffic backhauling technologies. It's a difference that amounts to something quite significant. This is good for Island, good for businesses everywhere, and great for society as a whole. 

This small but significant step is exciting — but it’s just the starting point. From here, we’ll actively seek other ways we can make things better for the people and the world around us.