Sun Microsystems Launches First-Of-Its-Kind, Open Web Comm

Global Sustainability Leader Ceres Joins OpenEco.org Community, Which Features First-Ever Tool For Calculating and Comparing GHG Emissions Data

Drawing on its history of building online communities, Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) today launched OpenEco.org, a new community to help organizations calculate, compare, and reduce green house gas (GHG) emissions. OpenEco.org is free and open to all organizations. The only cost of admission is sharing data, transparently or anonymously, with other community participants. Sun will publicly introduce OpenEco.org today at an event the company is sponsoring with the Carbon Disclosure Project featuring President Bill Clinton in New York.

In the age of social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, OpenEco.org provides a community for organizations to address climate change together. OpenEco.org fills an important need as companies, government institutions and non-governmental organizations are facing increasing pressure to set improvement goals and invest in projects to meet them. Increasingly, GHG analysis is done with home-grown or proprietary tools and often requires significant internal resources or expensive consulting services. With OpenEco.org, carbon accounting data that might ordinarily remain in a company's spreadsheet can be easily shared using the site's unique GHG emissions tool.1 The tool enables organizations of all kinds to benchmark against one another, set realistic reduction goals and share best practices to meet them.