Amadeus Consulting chief information officer John Basso founded the BLAST! program in 2009 to help companies take easy-to-implement steps to improve their sustainability efforts. Amadeus Consulting developed and launched the BLAST! web portal to promote the concept.  

Amadeus Consulting partnered with Boulder, Colorado-based nonprofit recycling facility Eco-Cycle to launch the sustainability blog, focused on encouraging companies to "green" their office environments.

"At our corporate headquarters, we've taken steps to divert 90 percent of our office waste from landfills, implemented energy-conserving practices and other sustainability measures," said Amadeus Consulting chief information officer John Basso. "Sustainability is part of our corporate culture. Because we're so passionate about it, we want to show other companies how easy it is to put green practices into place at their own offices."

Along with John Basso, the BLAST! portal hosts blog posts written by other distinguished Boulder area leaders and business owners including Eric Lombardi, Executive Director of Eco-Cycle; Rob Harsh, Senior EH&S Manager of Amgen Inc., Dan King, Owner of The Boulder Outlook Hotel; Jade Sevelow-Lee, Green Team Leader at Whole Foods; and Lauren Heising, RD, Coordinator for Sustainable Dining Housing & Dining Services at CU. The blog topics range from environmentally focused legislative issues and recycling technology components to trash management and offsetting carbon footprints.

Amadeus Consulting is a custom software 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^TM 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^TM, iPad^TM, BlackBerry®, Android^TM and Windows Mobile®. Amadeus Consulting has continued to rank in the prestigious Mercury 100 list of the fastest-growing private companies in Boulder and Broomfield counties since 2007, and has placed on the Inc. 5000 list since 2006.