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.

The opin­ions expressed by guest blog­gers are solely theirs, and do not nec­es­sar­ily rep­re­sent that of Donlen.

About the Author

Chuck Kukal
Chuck has been with Infinity Insurance Company for more than 6 years as a part of the Administrative Services Team supervising the day to day operations of fleet. Infinity has a fleet of 400 Jeep Compass' which are provided to adjusters, special investigative agents, and business development personnel. He was instrumental in developing a new Fleet Safety and Risk Management Program which included a new driver training program. He is active in the company's overall green initiative with the recycling, vanpooling, and carpooling programs and in 2007 worked towards making Infinity’s fleet the insurance industry's first fleet to become Climate Neutral. Chuck was a speaker at the Power of Green Fleet Symposium and contributor to articles in Automotive Fleet and Fleet Financials magazines, as well as a panelist at the 2009 Donlen-sponsored Green Fleet Conference in Chicago, Illinois.

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