Changing the World - Booz Allen Hamilton

In addition, Booz Allen has helped prepare a
pathway for the New York Metropolitan Transportation
Authority to quantify the benefit to the
region’s greenhouse gas emissions when people
use mass transit instead of personal vehicles.
Booz Allen has also created a methodology to
help organizations design and implement
effective environmental strategies. The process
begins with a Green Pulse Check (www.greenpulsecheck.com),
offered free of charge, which lets
organizations evaluate their own current sustainability
programs. A more detailed framework
defines the specific steps that an organization can
take to improve its sustainability profile.
Pro bono environmental efforts
The degree of Booz Allen’s commitment to sustainability
principles is perhaps best exemplified
by its many pro bono efforts. The most prominent
over the past few years has been the firm’s
partnership with the Wolf Trap Foundation for
the Performing Arts. The firm helped the foundation
develop a plan for achieving its goals of
becoming carbon neutral, generating zero waste,
and motivating other arts institutions to adopt
environmental practices. Booz Allen’s work with
Wolf Trap has also involved evaluating the emissions
that occur when audiences come to performances
and conducting cost-benefit analyses for
energy efficiency opportunities. In February 2009,
Booz Allen and Wolf Trap were honored by PR
Newswire with a Corporate Social Responsibility
Award in the Environmental Stewardship category
for the Go Green with Wolf Trap initiative.
David Erne, a Booz Allen senior associate in
McLean who has volunteered hundreds of hours
to work on the Wolf Trap campaign, says, “Our
support is critical to our belief that we must
be proactive and generous to make real change
in environmental attitudes and conditions.”
Booz Allen Hamilton
Statement of Commitment
Environmental
Stewardship
and Sustainability
Booz Allen Hamilton is committed to
creating significant and lasting improvements
to the sustainability of our
world—through the work we do for our
clients and in the way we work.
We develop innovative and sustainable
solutions for our clients to help
address global challenges, while
promoting responsible consumption of
resources in operating our business.
Our sustainability commitment is further
strengthened by our partnerships
and philanthropy in the communities in
which we live and work.
By taking actions within our company to
operate responsibly in all dimensions,
we deliver on our responsibility to our
employees, clients, and investors to be
effective stewards of our resources.
This is in keeping with our commitment
to exceptional people, excellence in our
work, and a spirit of service in everything
we do.
Ralph W. Shrader, Ph.D.
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
March 1, 2010
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