Sustainability initiatives – increased focus on energy efficiency, renewable energy and carbon offsets, for example – are flourishing at diverse businesses and college campuses nationwide. Corporations and institutions are looking for practical and meaningful applications that embrace social and environmental responsibility, while still delivering sound financial results. There’s a triple bottom line.
The greening of mainstream business and educational centers represents a shift in how business is being done and is the outgrowth of global challenges: energy and natural resource constraints, international security, economic development, and concern over the atmospheric buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. With challenges come opportunities. New technology and commitment enables spikes in business efficiency and dips in environmental impacts.
Companies and institutions of all sizes and sectors recognize that being greener can spawn new forms of business value. Some results are direct, such as greater energy efficiency, cost control, risk mitigation and shareholder value. Some are indirect, such as better productivity, morale and employee retention. And some are intangible but real, such as an enhanced reputation with key stakeholders, new market opportunities and brand loyalty.
Founded in 2000 on the notion that triple-bottom-line sustainability is a business imperative, Sterling Planet partners with clients of all types to create value by all measures. A true sustainability pioneer, Sterling Planet gave the nation its first coast-to-coast retail renewable energy certificate (REC) choice and has since emerged as the clear leader in providing renewable kilowatt hours to business, with sales to date averting more than 20 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions.
The company added to its sustainability arsenal in 2006 with the introduction of White Tags™ energy efficiency certificates, which trade similarly to RECs but represent the environmental value of energy savings rather than renewable energy production. Combined with RECs and carbon offsets having verified emissions reductions, these White Tags™ arm the company with the first comprehensive solution for carbon neutrality.
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