Green Guidance: Free best practices resource helps companies with environmental initiatives
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 2/15/2008 1:47:00 PM
Guidance is offering a best practices guide to help companies of any size operate as environmentally aware organizations and reduce or eliminate their carbon footprints. The guide includes strategies learned from the company’s own experience throughout its quest to help create a sustainable environment.
Guidance is a specialized technology advisor that envisions, builds, and supports Web technology solutions that help businesses thrive online. Its report is structured as a step-by-step guide for evaluating operations, calculating the carbon footprint, and taking action. It offers strategies for reducing or eliminating consumption of non-renewable resources like energy, paper, and plastic; ideas for incorporating recycling programs; and suggests ways to offset the amount of carbon dioxide the company releases into the atmosphere through its activities.
Download the guide at: http://www.guidance.com/images/green/guidance_green_toolkit.pdf
“We’ve put a lot of time and effort into figuring some of this out for ourselves, so it just makes sense to package what we’ve learned to give other companies a head start,” says Jon Provisor, Guidance CTO and head of Guidance Green. “Going green begins with a commitment from the organization itself and the individuals working there. It requires some changes in everyday habits and business practices, but it’s possible to make a difference. We do it because we’re committed to the environment, but that’s not the only benefit: Companies can save a lot of money by operating more efficiently.”
Whether motivated by a commitment to the environment or to the company’s bottom line, more organizations are seeking cleaner ways of conducting business. Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner recently identified “green IT” as one of the top 10 strategic technologies for 2008, and KPMG recently identified greentech/cleantech as the sector that would receive the most venture capital over the next two years.
