Wells Fargo Green Awards Winners
Wells Fargo Green Awards: Call for Nominations
Charlotte Chamber GreenWorks is proud to announce the 2017 Wells Fargo Green Awards. The Wells Fargo Green Awards recognize member companies that have incorporated innovative, sustainable practices in the products they produce, the services they provide and within the culture of their company. We believe the experiences shared and benefits realized through integrating sustainable practices into products, services and culture by Charlotte area businesses have the power to inspire other area businesses to do the same.
The 2017 Wells Fargo Green Award winners are:
Large business (50+ employees) – WSOC-TV Click to learn more |
WSOC-TV made ‘going green’ a major priority and installed a huge solar farm on their front lawn. This was constructed in 2014 and currently supplies about 20% of Cox Media Group - Charlotte’s energy consumption. It is 214 kW DC. Annually it produces up to 302,000 kwh which reduces our facility carbon footprint by 204 tons. That is the equivalent of powering 27 average sized homes annually along with eliminating 36 automobiles from the streets. In 2016 they implemented a plan to transition to single stream recycling. Bins were distributed to every office and staff of 200 employees was encouraged to reduce paper consumption and waste. Trash pickup has been reduced down to 2 times per week and recycle production has almost doubled. They have transitioned from 46% to 70% in our zero-waste landfill effort. |
Small business (1-49 employees) – Cousins Properties Incorporated Click to learn more |
Cousins Properties Incorporated owns and manages a 15.2 million square feet trophy office portfolio in the high-growth Sun Belt markets of Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Orlando, Tampa and Tempe. As a company Cousins is committed to sustainability. Across the main office buildings in its portfolio, greenhouse gas emissions are 9% lower than the US office building average. In addition, more than 60% of its total office portfolio square footage has achieved the Energy Star certification and 70% of its portfolio is LEED certified, which is more than three times the US office building sector average. |