Amadeus Consulting, a custom software development company, is excited to announce the official launch of its BLAST! program. The BLAST! program, or Business Leaders in Action for Sustainability Today!, is a training program for businesses to take real action and designate their companies as stewards of the environment. Training includes the how-to's on trash diversion, composting, and building augmentation. It also includes continual incorporation of new techniques on ways to reduce, reuse and recycle.

BLAST! was developed because of Amadeus Consulting's passion and desire to make a positive impact on the environment. The company wanted to develop a community program that would inform and train other companies to reduce waste and make an environmental difference. The program highlights the techniques that Amadeus Consulting currently uses and allows companies the opportunity to start a dialogue about sustainable practices. Amadeus Consulting uses a two-fold trash diversion program, which includes co-mingled recycling containers, compost and a Center for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM). The CHaRM Center was built out of sustainable materials and allows Amadeus Consulting to recycle plastic bags, computers, ink cartridges, batteries and Styrofoam. In 2008, Amadeus Consulting won 1^st place in the Zero Waste Awards for diverting 90% of its trash and has been able to maintain that same percentage since. In 2009, Amadeus Consulting also became PACE certified. This yearly certification program requires business to fulfill four main areas of sustainability in business.

"We decided that while going from 90-92% in waste diversion would be a great achievement for Amadeus Consulting, we could make an even bigger difference by training other companies how to go from 0-80%. This is the motivation behind BLAST!" said John Basso, Amadeus Consulting CIO and BLAST! Executive Director.

Amadeus Consulting continues to strive for innovative ways to decrease its carbon footprint and looks forward to bringing those concepts to BLAST! To learn more about BLAST!, sustainable efforts and how to join the BLAST! program visit www.blastnetwork.org.

Amadeus Consulting is custom application development company dedicated to creating intelligent technology solutions with successful business results. Amadeus Consulting is a Microsoft^® Gold Certified Partner as well as a Silverlight™ Partner, winner of the Microsoft Office XP Challenge, and has Microsoft Partner Competencies in Custom Development, Mobility and Data Management Solutions. The company is an expert in custom software applications such as rich Internet Applications, content management systems, e-commerce, surveys, social networking sites, data collection and management, browser plug-ins, and mobile application development including iPhone™, Windows Mobile^® and Android™. Amadeus Consulting ranked in the top 25 on the prestigious Mercury 100 list of the fastest-growing private companies in Boulder and Broomfield counties for three consecutive years, and has placed on the Inc. 5000 list for four consecutive years.