Guest Blog – Who wants to know?
It seems like everyone wants to know your business these days.
Transparency is the buzzword and everyone from stakeholders, investors, the EPA, and vendors want to know what you are doing in your company and with your fleet to be GREEN.
Have you calculated your facility’s carbon footprint?
Do you know the amount of GHG emissions that your fleet produces a year?
What have you done or are you planning to do to be earth-friendly and green?
Regardless of your feelings and views about climate change, we all need to “get our ducks in a row” and cover our bases with regard to these issues.
The handwriting is on the wall and whether our company and fleets are large or small we will all be feeling the impact of forthcoming imposed guidelines, regulations, and requirements whether on a local, state, or federal level.
Where should one begin?
I think it is important to have a corporate mission statement that includes recognition of the need to implement policy and action toward achieving green goals and objectives.
It is also important to quantify — where you can — the GHG emissions of your fleet and how you intend to reduce or offset these emissions. Some options are vehicle choice, telematics, driver behavior, and offset projects.
Begin a program of recycling paper, plastic, and aluminum soda cans at work with all your employees. Keep track of how much you have saved the environment by not having these things end up in landfills.
Let others know through your website, newsletters, and community programs that you care and are working and partnering with others to make a positive difference for the environment.
These are only a few suggestions you can use to begin a green Initiative.
I would welcome your ideas and other things being done that address these issues.
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