JPMorgan Chase and global participants
Teaming Up for a Greener Tomorrow

Green is the operative color again in 2009 as 225,000 participants team up with JPMorgan Chase on best environmental practices.

When the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge promotes it is Teaming Up For A Greener Tomorrow® with its 225,000 worldwide participants, what does that really mean?

It means conserving enough energy to provide lighting for a 50-employee business for nearly seven years.

It means those 50 employees in the business would each be able to charge their laptops for 35 years of consecutive use, run their inkjet printers for 28 years, and take more than 180,000 digital pictures .

It means the saving of approximately 790 million BTUs — enough to power an average home for more than eight years, or keep 10 treadmills running non-stop in a health club for two years.

It also means saving more than five tons of paper, six tons of plastic, nearly 5,000 gallons of crude oil or nearly 300 40-foot tall trees.

That's some pretty good teamwork.

Teaming Up For A Greener Tomorrow is a collaboration of the Corporate Challenge with JPMorgan Chase's Office of Environmental Affairs (OEA). The end-goal is to have the Corporate Challenge be the “greenest” road race in the world while educating its participants on the value of best environmental practices.

At all 12 of our Corporate Challenge events in six countries on five continents, we will be executing best green practices in the following focus areas:

• Procurement: Insuring that all race day supplies (t-shirts, goody bags, runner bib numbers, cleaning materials, hospitality utensils) adhere to standards of the OEA.
  
  
• Waste Management : Promoting proper recycling and trash removal at all events. Avoiding paper waste by insuring the vast majority of our communication with companies is done electronically.
  
  
• Transportation : Encouraging all participants to travel to events via provided shuttle transportation, via public transportation, by foot, or via GreenRide, our rideshare program partner in select markets.

The tactics are simple, yet meaningful. Our finisher t-shirts are printed with soy-based ink, for instance. Registration will be nearly 100-percent online. Shuttle transportation to the race site will be provided in many markets. Easily identifiable recycling receptacles will be evident throughout the race sites.

The environmental savings noted above were actual measurements for the 2008 Series year, calculated by Eastern Research Group, Inc., the official environmental advisor for the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge Series.

From Syracuse to Sydney, the Teaming Up For A Greener Tomorrow program has resonated with Corporate Challenge participants. The editors at Runner's World noted the efforts and named the Corporate Challenge to its list of 10 Greenest Races in 2008.