As Kermit the frog once noted "It is not easy being Green" but now we are seeing more companies using "becoming green" as a business justification.

Verizon Video Conferencing is helping EDS, a leading global technology services company, target a 25 percent reduction in its carbon emissions in Australia and New Zealand by 2010. EDS has deployed Verizon Video Conferencing over Verizon Private IP to connect 10 of its sites across Australia and New Zealand. By increasing the use of video conferencing, EDS plans to improve collaboration across its operations, while also hoping to reduce employee air travel by nearly a third. More...

This announcement caught my eye (probably because of the A&NZ link) as we have often talked about the savings that video and audio conferencing can achieve based on travel but now with the addition of reducing carbon emissions for the responsible corporations this adds more fuel to the fire (or should that be removes the fuel :)