Semantic Integration of Environmental Web Services in an Organization

Greening an organization encompasses many different aspects, not just recycling or stopping use of toxic materials and replacing it with some more environmental friendly material. There is a growing need to measure and calculate the environmental impact of the product, process and services. Turning an organization green includes green building practices. This paper provides a conceptual tool to track, report, manage and finally monetize the emissions using the web services termed as Green Web Services (GWS). These web services recognize the disproportionate environmental impact of a process in an organization. GWS provides solutions that can be used to substitute the physical activities and thereby reduce society´s energy consumption and carbon emission. This paper presents and extends a corporate environmental responsible business strategy (ERBS) that brings together GWS and business responsibilities, resulting in environmentally intelligent system (EIS).