What is the overall impact or "footprint" of your company on the environment?
Creative Solutions maintains a strong initiative to further enhance environmental best practices. We seek out and encourage partners who engage in all aspects of sustainability, including recycling, clean energy efficiency, clean technology, and those who are mindful of their impacts on resource consumption, the ecosystem quality and human health.
Organizations
Green Seal
http://www.greenseal.org
The "Consumer Reports" for the environment. Researches and recommends environmentally-preferable brands across a wide range of products.
Sustainable Green Printing Partnership
http://www.sgppartnership.org
Due to a growing demand for sustainable printers, the Sustainable Green Printing (SGP) Partnership was formed to establish a source of credible information related to sustainable business practices across all print platforms. Provides benchmarking tools applicable to the printing industry; provides verification of green and sustainable business practices based on a published list of criteria; and publically recognizes facilities that meet established criteria.
Green Products Alliance
http://www.greenproductsalliance.com
Consortium of manufacturers who make and sell natural personal care products. Member companies work together to lower raw material, marketing, advertising, and PR costs through cooperative projects and group buying. Membership is free. All products are subjected to a rigorous set of standards measuring the Alliance's definition of "natural."
Sustainable Products Purchasing Coalition
http://www.sppcoalition.org
Uses aggregate purchasing power to show the marketplace the value of providing verifiable environmental product data.
US EPA Environmentally-Preferable Purchasing Program
http://www.epa.gov/epp/
Helps the federal government "buy green," and in doing so, uses the federal government's enormous buying power to stimulate market demand for green products and services. Use this site to find information about green products and services; identify federal green buying requirements; calculate the costs and benefits of purchasing choices; Manage green purchasing processes.
International Federation for Alternative Trade (IFAT)
http://www.ifat.org
Federation of producers and alternative trading organizations (ATOs).
King County's Recycled Procurement Program
http://www.metrokc.gov/procure/green/index.htm
Sustainable Hospitals
http://www.sustainablehospitals.org
Helps health-care facility managers select products and establishing work practices that reduce occupational and environmental hazards, while maintaining quality patient care and containing costs. Find environmentally preferable dialysis equipment, laboratory chemicals and equipment, needles, sterilants and disinfectants, thermometers, and more.
Organic Consumers Association
http://www.organicconsumers.org/
An online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. The OCA deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children's health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics. They are the only organization in the US focused exclusively on promoting the views and interests of the nation's estimated 50 million organic and socially responsible consumers.
Nexus Green Building Resource Center
http://www.nexusboston.com/
Green building is good for human health, good for the environment, and good for our economy.
Database(s)
ResponsibleShopper.org
http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/rs/
In-depth social/ environmental profiles on hundreds of companies. Compare companies and investigate industries.
Listserv(s)
Environmentally Preferable Products Procurement Listserv
http://www.nerc.org/eppnet/index.html
EPPnet, the Environmentally Preferable Products Procurement Listserv, links public and private purchasing officials interested in buying environmental products.
Resources
2030 Challenge
http://www.architecture2030.org
Global warming, the climate and the built environment. Rapidly accelerating climate change (global warming), which is caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is now fueling dangerous regional and global environmental events. Immediate action in the Building Sector is essential if we are to avoid hazardous climate change.
National Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdc.org
It’s a great repository of news, issues, and sections for green living, green business with many excellent tips on how to fight global working and take action.
Personal Footprint Calculator
www.footprintnetwork.org/gfn_sub.php?content=calculator
See how your living habits relate to your use of the planet's resources.
Carbon Footprint Calculator
http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/calculator/
There are many things each of us — as individuals — can do to reduce emissions. The choices we make in our homes, our travel, the food we eat, and what we buy and throw away can help ensure a stable climate for future generations.
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