Green Champions

WPRI - CleanScape selects local companies that have taken measures to become environmentally friendly. Here is the current list of winners:

GREEN CHAMPION WINNER: BCI Computers has been certified by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as a GREEN company. It is BCI Computers continuous effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to safeguard the workplace that has been commended by the EPA. BCI Computers President, Raymond E. Calore stated: BCI is a progressive and proactive company and we are very committed to sustaining a healthy environment. We are very proud to be involved with the EPA and the Low Carbon IT Campaign.

BCI Computers, www.bcicomputers.net based in West Warwick, RI is one of the leading suppliers of Technology, Web Security, Managed Services, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions. Founded in 1982, BCI Computers offers you a full range of certified services that will maintain your network and substantially reduce your costs.

GREEN CHAMPION WINNER: Full Channel With a renewable-energy initiative that could well be the first of its kind in the nation, Full Channel is offering customers the opportunity to "green" their cable TV, phone and high-speed internet connections.

"We recently began purchasing 100% green power for our office operations," says Linda Maaia, President & CEO of Full Channel. "Now for $1 extra a month, our customers can choose to have our services delivered using wind power from renewable-energy sources right here in New England, as well."

As Rhode Island's only local, family-owned broadband provider, Full Channel is known for a strong community focus. Its green-power effort is a natural extension of that commitment.

The innovative GreenLink program is the result of a partnership with People's Power & Light: a Rhode Island nonprofit organization that is dedicated to making energy more affordable and sustainable.

It works to promote energy independence within the New England power grid and additionally offers consumers green power choices on their electric bill. "These are not just carbon credits or offsets," adds Levi Maaia, Vice President of Full Channel. "Besides reducing harmful emissions, our customers will actually support new renewable energy projects in New England when they choose GreenLink."

Approximately 10,000 kilowatt hours per month are needed to power the Full Channel corporate office. The monthly transmission of services to its residential and commercial subscribers consumes an additional 60,000 kilowatt hours system-wide.

GREEN CHAMPION WINNER: Beehive Kitchenware Many of our business practices are in place not simply because they are cost effective or efficient, but are designed in order to lower our environmental impact, which we consider a core value of doing business and creating beautiful and useful objects for the home.

We use only recycled paper in our office and recycle all our paper, junk mail, and cardboard (no small feat!). Our packing peanuts are made from bio-degradable material. Our products come in boxes that are made from recycled, unbleached paper, and are most often nestled in a natural, compostable material. There is very little in the manufacture of our products that creates waste: any reject castings get re-melted, and we recycle every bit of our scrap metals. And of course all of our pewter is lead–free, without any electroplating, to protect the health our water.

We are proud to be a US based company working with local and national suppliers for our metal, cardboard, and paper packaging to create our products. This reduces the carbon footprint of each product as well as insures that the highest environmental standards are met.