Redondo Beach, CA (April 22, 2008) - ArcoStream, a leader in streaming, caching, advertising, and encoding solutions, announced today it has become carbon neutral, making it one of the few companies in the content and advertising delivery industry to offset its annual carbon emissions by purchasing credits in green projects in renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation .

Working with Carbonfund.org, ArcoStream estimated the usage of its server, storage, and networking hardware, employee workstations, office space electricity and heating consumption, as well as employee air and car travel in order to arrive at the number of metric tons of carbon the company emitted into the atmosphere during the past year. While it is difficult to estimate other carbon emission contributors, such as data center power equipment, ArcoStream used an amount of 3.35 annual metric tons of carbon emissions per server to arrive at a figure for a carbon offset program.

“Climate change is perhaps the most pressing and immediate issue our generation is facing, and if we don’t address this now, we will likely regret our inaction in the future,” said Todd Loewenstein, CEO and Founder of ArcoStream. “We want to be good corporate citizens and environmental stewards of the planet. People probably don’t think too much about the environmental impact our industry has on global warming, since most of our work is done virtually with little physical product, but there is a definite impact on the planet with carbon emissions.”

Carbonfund.org is leading the fight against global warming climate change, making it easy and affordable for any individual, business or organization to eliminate their climate impact and hastening the transformation to a clean energy future. Carbonfund.org achieves its goals through:
• Climate change education
• Carbon offsets and reductions
• Public outreach

“Carbonfund.org is thrilled to welcome ArcoStream to the CarbonFree Business Program,” Carbonfund.org Communications Manager Russell Simon said. “Connecting customers with high-quality online content leaves a carbon footprint and ArcoStream is doing its part to fight climate change by offsetting that footprint. As a leader in the streaming and content delivery industry, their decision to commit to a clean energy future challenges others in the industry to do the same.”

Carbonfund.org supports renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation projects globally that reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the threat of climate change. Carbonfund.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

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