Gives Locally - Does your organization donate and/or volunteer for environmental and/or humanitarian organizations within your local community and beyond?
Feed our Starving Children
Aeon - Green Space Spruce-up
Fair Trade
In addition frequently donate food and gift baskets to a number of charitable activities and events supporting numerous charities including:
Susan G. Komen
United Way and more ...
Recycles - Does your organization recycle paper, plastic, glass, aluminum, batteries, electronics and fluorescent lights throughout the company, including public areas?
Each employee has full recycling available.
Compost or Food-to-Farms - Does your organization compost its food and food related paper waste and/or does it participate in a food-to-farm program sending its food waste to farms?
Lighting - Does your organization use high-efficiency lighting approved by Energy Star such as, T8s, T5s, LEDs, CFLs (>75%)?
We have all Energy Star rated lighting systems.
Temperature - Does your organization manage temperature with an efficient programmable thermostat, adjust it to 68 degrees in the winter and 80 degrees in the summer, and reduce it to the greatest energy efficient setting possible during non-labor hours?
We do have programmable thermostats, but it is not optimal for us to keep the temperature at 80 degrees in our operations in the summer. There is significant product and energy reasons for this decision.
Hibernate Computers - Does your organization hibernate the computer monitors after 5 minutes without use and shut the computers down completely during non-work hours (with the exception of POS and/or unique computer systems that cannot or should not hibernate or shut down)?
Energy Reduction - Does your organization incorporate specific practices and equipment to reduce energy usage and waste, e.g. grocery store installs doors on refrigerated areas, skylights installed for passive solar, paint rooftop white to reduce the air-conditioning usage, etc?
Conserves Water - Does your organization maintain plumbing to prevent leaks, drips and overall water waste? When replacements are necessary, do you install water conserving low-flow/high-pressure fixtures?
Unwanted Mail - Has your organization removed their name from unwanted: mail, mailing lists, phone book distribution and unwanted catalogs?
Paper - Does your organization use post-consumer recycled paper throughout all office printers, fax machines & copiers?
We are in the process of moving to PCR paper in the near future.
Transportation - Does your organization promote the use of and/or offer incentives for employees and visitors to use low or no CO2 transportation?
preferred parking spaces for low-co2 cars
Bottled Water - Does your organization offer and promote drinking water for employees and guests that is not packaged in plastic? If you do use plastic bottled water, do you promote recycling of all plastic bottles?
Buys Locally - Does your organization buy locally whenever possible (within a 100 mile radius)?
We supply stores nationwide and must work with suppliers who can handle our capacity. However, using some of these large suppliers means more efficient production and less waste.
Choose Green - Do you offer and/or buy organic, natural, sustainable, and/or renewable products and continue to look for ways to do so (> 20%)?
Green Energy - Does your organization incorporate the use of ultimate efficiency systems and/or alternative, renewable &/or sustainable energy resources e.g. solar, wind energy, geothermal temperature management, etc?
Inspires Others - Does your organization encourage the employees, suppliers and others to also do more environmentally and publicly communicate their efforts by creating an Eco-Profile?
We have already inspired some of our employees, customers and vendors to take action and share those actions by creating and publishing their eco-profiles as well! We have done campaigns on Facebook sharing our eco-profile and asking others to do the same!
Energy Audit- Has your organization had an energy audit within the past 24 months?
Aztec Energy Bureau and Parasense
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