Green Resources

With more and more attention being focused on how businesses can help the environment, it is becoming easier to 'go green' in the workplace. Here are the Top 10 Ways Your Business Can Go Green!

What The Charlotte Chamber Is Doing

Reducing paper use by 15 percent by eliminating Ventures Monthly, printing both sides of paper, providing electronic agendas and financials at meetings, and not enclosing return envelopes in communications.
Reimbursing employees for CATS transit passes.
Encouraging employees to turn off their lights when away from their desks for 15 minutes or more and to turn off meeting room, bathroom and break room lights when they are unoccupied.
Supplying washable mugs, plates, and flatware in break rooms and meeting rooms.
Providing recycling bins in common areas, meeting rooms and at desks.
Uploading all employee manuals and standardized forms to the Chamber’s intranet for easy employee access.
Enhancing the annual Total Revenue Campaign website to provide all training manuals, lists, contracts, reports and forms online.
Providing filtered water dispensers in each break room to reduce use of bottled water.
Requiring recycled products from caterers and vendors.
Encouraging employees to carpool to Chamber events.
Providing a green tip of the week in “This Week,” the Chamber’s weekly employee e-newsletter.
Acknowledging employees who display good, green behavior with the Kermit Award.
Discouraging bad habits with an Oscar the Grouch trophy that employees can pass along when they catch someone else not being green.
Creating a green issue of Ventures Charlotte to show what we’re doing and to encourage members to adopt their own green practices!