Earth Day could also be on April 22, however environmental sustainability is all the time prime of thoughts right here at Cisco.
Cisco’s Green Team Network (CGTN) has been driving sustainability as a part of Cisco’s Inclusive Communities (Employee Resource Groups) for the final 10 years. CGTN envisions a extra environmentally sustainable enterprise and world by empowering one another to drive social and environmental change at work and of their houses.
The Network is working in the direction of this objective by elevating consciousness of in the present day’s most urgent sustainability challenges. They join workers with the instruments and sources to drive actions by service tasks and campaigns. Above all, CGTN encourages workers to have enjoyable and join whereas making Cisco a extra sustainable firm.
The 24 international groups host occasions year-round equivalent to tree plantings, cleanup occasions, and academic periods on waste discount, residence gardening, and beekeeping.
Hear extra about what sustainability means to members of our GTN.
Stephania Trejos
Demand Gen Project Manager, Global Virtual Sales & Engineering (GVSE)
“Sustainability to me is the stability that exists between human actions and nature’s processes that permit our planet to operate correctly.
Sustainable residing is a harmonious and symbiotic relationship between people and our pure sources.
We can impression this relationship for good or for unhealthy relying on what we expect, what we do, and the way we act.
As a Cisco worker, I admire all of the alternatives and assist we’re given to make our world a greater place.
Using Time2Give and our Inclusive Communities, we will assist causes which can be vital to us, equivalent to environmental non-profits, and join with others who share our pursuits and values.
As co-leader of the Green Team Network in Costa Rica, I need to encourage others to really feel the satisfaction and pleasure that comes from giving our time, power, and sources to assist our planet and our communities.
Throughout the 12 months, I assist arrange giving again occasions for our GTN members in partnership with native non-profit organizations whose mission is to construct a extra sustainable atmosphere for our surrounding communities.
Taking care of this lovely planet we name residence requires altering our mentality, spurred by our love of others and for nature. Make a distinction by becoming a member of considered one of your native Cisco Green Team networks in the present day.”
Muthu Varadharajan
Senior Leader, Systems Engineering Sales, Cisco
“Sustainability to me is a state below which people and nature can exist in productive concord to assist each other.
Climate change is actual, our planet is warming, and we have to act now. From far locations like Antarctica to close ones just like the Colorado river, we see its impression in the present day.
I reside in Colorado, and local weather change has affected all the Colorado River Basin. There are about 7 U.S. states together with the higher basin Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and the decrease basin states Arizona, California and Nevada that depend on water from the shrinking Colorado river.
Rising temperatures fueled by the burning of fossil fuels has intensified the worst drought in centuries, and the circulation of the Colorado has declined about 20%. Reservoirs have dropped to record-low ranges, and the scarcity continues to worsen.
Cisco is dedicated to serving to individuals work, reside, play, and study in an environmentally pleasant means.
We are lowering our personal carbon footprint, participating clients, companions, and workers in efforts to handle our impression on the atmosphere and creating IT options to assist deal with local weather change.
A colleague and I shaped the Green Team Chapter for Colorado. Our chapter features a rising staff of Cisco workers who share a standard ardour for saving the Planet.
Our Green Team has numerous pursuits, together with educating beekeeping to assist assist current beekeepers, planting timber, gathering wildflower seeds, constructing fences, trails and habitats, and selling biodiversity.”
Marina Pinheiro Morando
Client Operation Delivery Manager, Cisco Americas Commerce Operations
“I’m a Cisco Green Team Brazil co-leader, and to me, sustainability is the capability to guard the planet for in the present day and for future generations.
That is why it’s so essential to handle myself, handle the planet, and handle all species (animals, crops, and other people).
Our habits and attitudes could make an enormous distinction for a extra sustainable and delightful world.
Every motion you are taking for planet Earth and unfold to different individuals, together with your loved ones, neighborhood, mates, colleagues at work, and the group, will rework the atmosphere.
So don’t wait. Let’s respect, defend, and take actions. Awareness, lowering, recycling, reusing — small and massive actions can have an ideal impression!
The Earth is altering, and everyone seems to be accountable for creating and sustaining a sustainable atmosphere and round economic system.
Critical wants like water and meals are being aggressively impacted and we’ve large challenges forward of us in relation to local weather change, together with financial, social, and environmental.
No motion means extra issues, much less sources, and public well being crises, like pandemics. It is now or by no means, begin this journey in the present day!
I’m taking steps to reside sustainably, are you? Join us!”
Catarina Pereira
Virtual Partner Account Manager for the United Kingdom (UK)
“I’m a Cisco Lisbon Green Team co-lead for round 2.5 years, and a member of this community since I joined Cisco.
My major objective with all of the actions led by the Green Team is to create consciousness and to attempt to get individuals to know that each drop within the Ocean issues.
We’re attempting to assist Cisconians be extra educated about sustainability, we additionally like to be arms on, and encourage and assist individuals to go and do one little factor at a time.
If you cease shopping for bottled water, that’s okay. If you’re residing a zero-waste way of life, that’s fantastic. If you’re doing what you’ll be able to (utilizing fabric napkins for example) and really feel you continue to have an extended approach to go, that’s additionally fantastic. Little by little, if we’re all acutely aware of what we will do, every thing provides up.
Sustainability was all the time vital to me. Up till a number of years in the past, I used to say sustainability was vital as a result of nature was a sacred place the place we might decelerate, get pleasure from and be completely satisfied. But additionally, I started to understand we reside in a spot with finite sources, so we have to perceive how we need to handle our “warehouse and its inventory”.
Then I grew to become a mother, and I additionally needed my daughter to have the ability to get pleasure from planet Earth the identical means I used to be in a position to get pleasure from it when rising up.
Today, I feel sustainability is vital for all of us as a result of we need to proceed to get pleasure from Earth’s “inventory” the identical means we did previously. It’s in our arms to maneuver the needle and construct a fantastic legacy.”
Whether you’re a Cisco worker or not, you’ll be able to take motion to start out your sustainability journey in the present day.
Take a carbon footprint evaluation that may assist establish the biggest areas of impression in your every day life. From there, determine what steps you’ll be able to take to scale back your impression. This might appear to be taking public transportation or sourcing regionally grown produce.
And don’t overlook to share what you may have realized. What adjustments have you ever discovered that make the largest impression in lowering your private footprint?
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