More than a little corporate pride can be heard in Daniel Gagne’s voice as it comes down the line from his Montreal office at Bell Canada.

He earnestly rattles off the telecommunications provider’s notable achievements: Nearly 500,000 cellphones diverted from landfills since 2003, nearly 300,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases eliminated and, if that wasn’t enough, a cool $1-million trimmed through paper recycling.

“We see that we have responsibilities. We need to control our own environment and reduce our energy consumption,” says Mr. Gagne, Bell’s director of corporate responsibility and the environment. “But we’re convinced we can help others do so, too.”

Meanwhile, at Cisco Canada — where a ban on corporate travel has resulted in a reduction of more than 70,000 tonnes of carbon emissions, according to Willa Black, Canadian vice-president for corporate marketing– the grand plan is to reduce CO2 equivalents by 25% within three years.

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