It appears, as recent current events have suggested, that Fed Ex is planning to go as greener as ever. Their first attempt to make themselves a far more greener organization is through the use of solar energy. Under prescription as we now speak, Fed Ex’s first attempt at construction of a Germany-based international solar field is slated for completion by 2010. It will be Fed Ex’s biggest and boldest move towards trying to procure themselves as a paramount green organization, despite the fact that the organization’s environmental record in the past has been on the negative side. With this advent, things may be changing for the better as far as Fed Ex goes.

Though the construction of an international solar field will be their most biggest challenge yet, Fed Ex has made some small steps in the past few years with the experimentation of solar energy. An example of this was in 2005, when the major delivery organization created one of the biggest rooftop-based solar fields in California history. This helped Fed Ex cut their carbon footprint by over one thousand carbon dixoide emissions, helping Fex Ex to procure itself as a proponent for the reduction of greenhouse gases. Smaller solar facilities built by Fed Ex abound in other places in California as well, and a similar yet a bit different process has been underway in Switzerland.

The Switzerland example as constructed by Fed Ex was not in fact solar but rather geothermal. Geothermal is a far less known form of alternative energy that often goes unnoticed in many circles, though its use has risen considerably in the past few years. This geothermal system as installed in Fed Ex’s Switzerland-based plant helps to heat up the cold wintry months and cool down the hot summer months. With all these examples abounding for Fed Ex, coupled with the construction of their largest environmentally-friendly project ever, there is little doubt these days that Fed Ex is trying to make itself more sustainable. Now, all we need is for more organizations to follow this example.