We’re dedicated to providing our community with the knowledge and tools to Go Green! The following list outlines our basic approach in a proven system that fosters strong working relationships and professional guidance in your path to Green.
1. AWARENESS
The core of a Green Business is the employees. It is impractical to think that posting rules, installing policies, and replacing products will bring about a real societal change.
Green Awareness training provides for a live speaker or online training for your staff and workers. Environmentalism is conceptual and requires people to make it happen in your business. If they know little about the subject, little will happen. Our training will allow your employees to create a truly Green operation.
As a certified Green Consultant™, I will become your outsourced professional making Green Business certification a possibility for your business. I can also offer Green Awareness training at your facility or arrange for an online program convenient for your workers.
2. EARN GREEN BUSINESS CERTIFICATION
Too often, the vital information about Going Green as a business comes out in bits and pieces from reliable and not-so-reliable sources. How do you know that you are making progress and actually reaching your goals? Frankly, no program offers a clear pattern of Green achievement except the one we provide. The pattern is laid out in our Green Management Guide, and a company marks progress using a point system of actual participation. Earn 100 points, and you have reached a recognized level of Green achievement!
NO TWO BUSINESSES ARE ALIKE – For this reason, items selected by one business will differ from another business. The Green Management Guide offers a variety of ideas that a business may use, but the choice is always yours.
STAY AHEAD OF REGULATIONS – What is the meaning of Green, and how do you get there? As city, state and federal regulations grow; how do you stay ahead of these ever-increasing regulations and mandates? Oddly, no one really seems to have the answers although they constantly pressure businesses to Go Green.
PUBLIC RECOGNITION AS A GREEN CITIZEN – Earning your Green Business Certified status is the first of many advantages with our system. Local and national identification as a Green Business is something that will add to your credibility at every level. This is not a “Buy a Membership” program. You will earn it, and it will have the kind of substance that demands respect.
3. GREEN BUSINESS NETWORK
Each community has the opportunity to grow a chapter of the Green Business League locally. We perform quarterly meetings that provide Green Business Training, and a chance to meet and socialize with other Green Businesses. Green programs have often been anti-business; but without a partnership with the business community, no Green Program can succeed. Therefore, our program is about integrating quality information to area businesses and forming a superior network of business leaders, and an annual Green Business Expo. The key to greater success of this program is in the services we provide as Green Consultants in addition to the commitment to Green progress by area businesses.
The industry buzz is about the importance of the Green Supply Chain, which puts a serious emphasis on what products your company buys and what services it employs. Unless these companies are Green Business certified, their claims for Green may be little more than “Greenwashing” and hype.
Is your janitorial service Green certified? Do other firms supplying yours recycle? Do they have a Green purchasing protocol? What are they doing to work with sustainable resources? Are they wastefully using paper products? In the end, all these things matter.
