Postal address:
aiforia GmbH
Moltkestraße 18
79098 Freiburg
Contact:
Telefon: +49 (0)761 45877832
Telefax: +49 (0)761 45877839
E-Mail: info@aiforia.eu
aiforia: αει (always, forever) + φέρω (to bring, to sustain) = sustainability.
As an international agency for sustainability, at aiforia we are convinced that human beings can improve the overall quality of life on our planet without endangering future generations' right to use the Earth's resources -and despite the challenges of climate change and peak oil. Our commitment is to live up to this mission and help others follow the same direction.
Do you wish to be more resourceful in the use of natural resources? Would you like your community/region to become more resilient and flexible? Are you aiming to reduce your ecological footprint?
We are working to support you! We are experts in mainstreaming of good practices, providing facilitation for the exchange of know-how, and in the development of new, resourceful projects and processes for sustainability.
We bring together different actors at local, national and international levels and provide comprehensive support in topics such as reduction of resource consumption, responsible planning, effective projects, and thoughtful and fair policies.
Our main clients are local and regional authorities; yet we also work for other institutions, such as small enterprises and private households.
If you are interested in knowing more about aiforia, please browse through our web-site or contact us
We take it for granted that a company working for sustainability must first of all have its own house in order. This is why we make a point of reducing as much as possible the environmental impact of our activities and daily life at the office:
Our office equipment and furniture meet strict ecological criteria. To evaluate their sustainability we take into account their whole life-cycle: from raw materials and production process, packaging and application to recycling or disposal. We make sure that they are certified as FSC, Blue Angel, Fairtrade, etc. or that they follow other sustainability criteria such as having been recycled, etc. For example our chairs are 95% recyclable, while our desks and cabinet are recovered antique wooden furniture more than 120 years old.
We reduce our waste generation as much as possible and make sure that all of the waste that we produce is recycled. We print only when necessary, double-sided, on ecologically certified paper. We try to be CO2-neutral both for the hosting of our website and for internet researches, and thus have chosen providers which compensate the energy used by emission trading certificates (Domain Factory declaration). For our internet research we use Znout instead of Google, which compensates the energy needed for each query (equal to one hour of an 11-watt light bulb). For shared resources such as energy, heating, lighting and cleaning products, we adopt more ecologically friendly solutions. In our business meetings, we prefer food and beverages that are vegetarian, organic, fair-trade, seasonal and produced regionally.
We commute by foot, bike or public transport. On business trips, we use the train for distances up to 1,000 Km (to reach cities like Rome, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin). For longer distances, we compensate the amount of CO2 emitted by flying through donations to climate protection projects.
aiforia's bank account is kept at a bank for social and ecological investments, where deposits are invested in companies or projects supporting organic agriculture. For our computers we use open-source software to support variety in software development.
Every six months we evaluate our environmental performance, according to several indicators (CO2 emitted for travelling, paper and ink consumed...) and establish new targets. This way we strive for continuous improvement.
We are always delighted to collaborate with different organisations, institutions and companies all around the world.
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aiforia is based in Freiburg im Breisgau, on the edge of the Black Forest, and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. The "Black Forest metropolis" is often mentioned among the most ecological cities in the world: Freiburg made it into the final round of the "European Green Capital 2009/2010", was named "German Climate Protection Capital" in 2010 and has already received several awards from the "Solar Bundesliga". National and international visitors show great interest in Freiburg's plus energy houses, the eco-city districts of Vauban and Rieselfeld, the integrated transport concept, the "electricity rebels" in nearby Schönau and other innovative solutions for sustainability.
You can reach us.... by train! Freiburg is only 6 hours drive from Berlin and Hamburg, 2 hours from Zurich, 5 hours from Munich...and one night from Vienna and Bolzano.
Postal address:
aiforia GmbH
Moltkestraße 18
79098 Freiburg
Contact:
Telefon: +49 (0)761 45877832
Telefax: +49 (0)761 45877839
E-Mail: info@aiforia.eu