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Media Kit: Sustainability

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Environmental Sustainability Overview

Sustainability is a way of doing business that understands our company's impact on society, and the impact that social issues have on our business. How we integrate the concerns of our communities into our business strategies helps strengthen and create shared value among us. Sustainability can't be defined as a single program or token initiative. It's an explicit and defined aspect of who we are as a company and how we run our business. It's an obligation to operate better and smarter — and run our business in a way that makes sense for both our company and our world.

AT&T organizes our sustainability initiatives into three focus areas, which reflect the issues we feel embody our commitment.

People and Community — People matter — to each other, to our communities and to our company. This has been one of our core beliefs for 136 years and always will be. Our workforce, our business and the communities that we serve are all stronger because of it.
Environment — How do we connect a world of seven billion without inhibiting our natural environment's ability to support us? It is a daunting, exciting and critical challenge, and we are working hard toward meeting it every day.
Technology — Technology is the path from an idea drawn on a napkin to an astronaut standing on the moon. What happens in between — innovation, investment and determination — is at the very core of who we are. AT&T creates realities to a world of endless possibilities.

Environment

Environmental resources are precious. We are committed to operating in a way that increases our efficiency and minimizes our impact on the environment, today and tomorrow.

$42 million

Annualized savings from implementing 4,500 energy-saving projects

$86 million

Annualized savings from 8,700 energy-saving projects implemented in 2010 and 2011

5,114

Alternative-fuel vehicles deployed, including 3,469 CNG vehicles and 1,617 hybrid electric vehicles, as part of our $565 million commitment to deploy approximately 15,000 alternative-fuel vehicles (AFVs) over a 10-year period through 2018

2.5 million

Gallons of unleaded gasoline that will be avoided in 2012 and each subsequent year that our 3,469 compressed natural gas vehicles are in service

≤ 30

Percent of plant-based materials in new plastic being transitioned into AT&T-branded accessories

50.1

Pounds of network scrap materials kept out of landfills through reusing, selling and recycling materials

3.0 million

Approximate number of cell phones collected for reuse or recycling

1.7 million

Pounds of batteries and accessories collected for reuse or recycling

77,000

Computers, monitors and servers collected for donation, reuse and recycling

17.2 million

Customers that opted for paperless billing through 2011

Learn more at www.att.com/environment.

Technology

Technology unleashes possibility. We are committed to investing in and deploying innovative technologies that empower people to improve our world. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions — comprising hardware, software and broadband technologies — have the ability to enable people and businesses to make more energy-efficient choices and reduce environmental impact and costs, by:

Moving work to people rather than people to work
Connecting rather than traveling
Managing business remotely and in real time
Improving transportation and distribution systems

Learn more at www.att.com/communicationseconomy.

Innovation

At AT&T, we're always looking ahead.

Sustainability and innovation are closely linked at AT&T, and this commitment takes two forms. First, we are constantly looking for opportunities to reduce our environmental impact, address societal problems, like health care, and encourage students to study subjects like science and engineering.

Second, we know that solving many of the future's problems will rely on the continuing evolution of ICT technology. It is for this reason that we are not only innovating to solve today's problems but also working with partners to solve the problems of tomorrow.

Learn more at www.att.com/innovation.

Business Sustainability Council

The AT&T Business Sustainability Advisory Council — established in 2009 — aims to better quantify the carbon benefits of our products and services — and to help businesses make smarter sustainability investments. The Council advises AT&T on identifying the best measurement tools, methodologies and technology-use that business customers can call on to better quantify the impact of ICT-enabled solutions for greenhouse gas reduction.
Press Release: AT&T Forms Business Sustainability Advisory Council