From our headquarters in Woodstock, Illinois, we at Other World Computing care about this world -- the world we live in today.

It is a world where energy conservation and environmental leadership are everyone's responsibility, and a place where we can all contribute in our own way to achieve great things, individually and collectively; for our nation and our planet.

OWC's headquarter and distribution center building has been designed to represent the values that customers have come to expect from OWC: excellence in products; creativity and innovation; as well as a demonstrated respect for the community and participating in its growth.

Creating a "Green" facility is a natural extension of those values and ideals. We have made it our priority to design and build an attractive, environmentally friendly facility that we hope will typify future commercial endeavors. Seeking out certification from the United States Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program, we hope to meet the "Gold Standard" and demonstrate our commitment for the benefit of our employees, our neighbors, and our world.

Our hope in pursuing the USGBC's LEED Gold Certification, an achievement only the top percentile of construction projects in the United States ever achieve, is to engage in Good Corporate Citizenship for the well being of everyone, and provide leadership that starts locally.

By setting our goals high and starting out "Green", the resulting benefits will be far greater than merely financial. The payback is all around us, and with each new Green undertaking, people will see that they too, can take part in making the world "Green," one project at a time. That each of us, can indeed, make a difference.