Authenticity. In all that we do as individuals and as a company, we try to maintain the highest levels of honesty and integrity possible.

Carbon Balanced. field15 has worked with TerraPass to figure out how big our carbon footprint is so that we could offset the impact we're having. We were very happy to find out that our footprint was small, and we purchased offsets for our office space, commuting, and internal servers.

Clean Working Environment. We recycle paper, plastic, glass, and aluminum, we use natural cleaning supplies that haven't been tested on animals, and we make our beds every morning.

Commuting. No cars here! That's right, even in the depths of winter and the dog days of summer, our staff walks at least three miles a day and bikes four to get to and from work. And on the rare occasion when we can't walk or bike, we always use public transportation.

Donations. Through the DreamHost affiliate program, we receive $97 for every client of ours that chooses DreamHost as their hosting provider. We then take that $97 and let our client decide which one of five organizations we should donate the money to. The current choices are: Amnesty International, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), The Nature Conservancy, The North Shore Animal League, or The World Wildlife Fund.

Energy Efficiency. We don't use a lot of hardware or office equipment here, but nearly everything we use is Energy Star qualified.

Hosting. We don't host our clients' websites ourselves, but we're proud of the hosting providers we do work with. Our own website (and many of the more complicated projects we work on) are hosted by Williams Consulting, Inc. (WCI). WCI uses SuperMicro servers with high efficiency (93%) power supplies, energy efficient CPUs, and fewer case fans requiring less electricity. In addition, they use Virtual Private Servers (VPS) which allow them to provide more hosting capacity while running fewer physical machines. WCI is also currently in the process of becoming 100% carbon neutral. For our less complicated projects, we recommend that our clients host their websites with DreamHost. DreamHost is a carbon neutral, feature-rich, affordable hosting provider that we feel confident recommending to our clients.

Openness/Transparency. We maintain open and transparent business practices both internally and externally. To our staff, this means communication and questioning are encouraged and corporate policy isn't made in back-room deals. To our clients, this means that fees aren't hidden and data isn't locked into proprietary formats that only we can access.

Paper. We're not paperless, but we do use less paper today than we did just a few months ago and we at least make sure that any we do use is recycled. Plus, we now email all our client invoices rather than printing them out, saving envelopes and stamps and reducing emissions from post office vehicles.