PlacerSustain: Voices of Placer County's Sustainability Community

This is a copy of an email to AT&T employees with links to information about AT&T's 2010 Sustainability Report:

Our 2010 Sustainability Report is now available to highlight the investments we're making to strengthen AT&T and the communities in which we operate. For the first time, this annual report includes a collection of compelling stories that bring to life the data behind our investments and results. Through the account of Haiti earthquake victims who used our technology in the aftermath of the disaster, or through a stirring story of a young woman who found inspiration through AT&T Aspire, these snapshots demonstrate how we are empowering people to rethink how they live, work and play.



You may also notice that we've reorganized our sustainability focus areas — Environment, People & Community and Technology. As our commitment continues to evolve, we will continually look for ways to keep up with the changing landscape.



Highlights from the 2010 AT&T Sustainability Report include:

• Environment: In 2010, you continued to improve your energy conservation, which enabled us to reduce the amount of energy needed to carry data over our network. Results in 2010 included realizing $44 million in annualized energy savings from implementing 4,200 energy-savings projects; deploying 3,487 alternative-fuel vehicles in 538 cities as part of AT&T's commitment to roll out approximately 15,000 alternative fuel vehicles through 2018.
• People & Community: Through our AT&T Cares program, and thanks to the tremendous commitment from you and our retirees, in 2010 we donated 9 million hours of time to community outreach activities. Volunteerism also continues to be a key component of the AT&T Aspire program, a $100 million initiative launched in 2008 to address the high school drop-out crisis and help prepare the country's future workforce.

Technology: AT&T teamed with clean energy technology company Petra Solar to provide communications and information technology support for nearly 200,000 solar power generating stations atop utility poles throughout New Jersey. The units — which communicate with the power grid using AT&T's wireless network — are expected to generate 40 megawatts of solar-driven power to communities.