Identify Potential for Earning Valuable "Clean Air Credits" For Your Employees Who Telework

The ecommute program is based on successful emissions-trading programs that have helped the plants and factories of businesses meet clean-air standards for over a decade. Ecommute simply applies the same principles to mobile-source emissions. It's made possible by Teletrips, groundbreaking Web-based tracking software that can quantify vehicle emissions saved by teleworking.

In the ecommute program, teleworkers use Teletrips to document their "non-trips" to the office. Teletrips automatically calculates the data, converting it into miles and emissions saved, which can potentially be translated into Clean Air Credits (1 credit per lb of pollution saved). The Clean Air Credits earned during the duration of the program could be like "money in the bank." In the future they could potentially be sold or traded as part of clean-air agency emissions reduction strategies.

Ecommute is the result of a Congressional Act that proposed pilot programs to measure the effectiveness of teleworking to reduce emissions and determine if emissions trading could be used as an incentive for businesses, to implement telework programs. Other metropolitan areas that are examining how telework can simultaneously reduce congestion, improve air quality, quality of life, and benefit an employer's bottom line are Denver, Houston, Philadelphia and Washington, DC.

"Forget enhanced productivity and quality of life. In the next few years, telework is poised to make a lot of businesses a lot of money."

- NetworkWorldFusion.com