Verizon Celebrates Earth Day & Having One of the Largest Corporate Green Teams

NEW YORK, April 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon is honoring Earth Day throughout April with a digital campaign to build awareness about climate change and the environmental issues of our day with Earth Day facts and fun tips on living a greener lifestyle.  We encourage our employees to share their green lifestyle tips and Earth Day facts @VerizonGreen, promoting #EarthDay and #HUGATREE. 

At Verizon, environmental awareness goes well beyond Earth Day. We've invested more than $137 million in green solar and fuel cell energy since 2013 and encourage our global employee Verizon Green Team to treat every day like Earth Day. The Green Team has grown to more than 17,000 employee members in 28 countries around the world.  Our members Work Green and Live Green, they volunteer and lead events where they live, including tree plantings, community cleanups, and eWaste recycling rallies. Nearly 7,000 Verizon Green Team members recently celebrated Earth Hour – turning off lights at their homes across nearly 30 countries, and Verizon darkened nearly 500 building locations around the world.

Learn how Verizon is celebrating Earth Day: http://www.verizon.com/about/celebrating-earth-day-2015

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to consumer, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, with more than 108 million retail connections nationwide. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to customers worldwide. A Dow 30 company with more than $127 billion in 2014 revenues, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of 177,300. For more information, visit www.verizon.com/news/.

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