Promote green businesses that are recognized under a local, regional or national program.
Best Practice of this action
Rating Guideline
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Recognize and promote (for example, on your city web site) businesses whose environmental actions are recognized by a local, regional or statewide program, such actions as recycling, reducing materials use, lowered toxicity in products, selling locally created compost, energy efficiency, EV charging station for employees/patrons, etc. |
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Recognize and promote businesses that are certified under a GreenStep-linked or national green business program. |
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Provide a city preference for support and use of certified green businesses. |
Resources
- For a local program see the Coon Rapids' Community Sustainability Partnership program. For co-operatively owned retail food businesses, see the Co+efficient Sustainability Star award program of the National Co+op Grocers Association that recognizes co-ops’ social, environmental, and local economic impacts.
- During 2020 the civic group Sustainable Stillwater will be urging business to join Green America's Green Business Network, which provides a certification challenge for businesses in 42 categories. In past years a Marshall GreenStep Business program recognized more sustainable businesses in the city. Also see the tiered certification system from the Green Business Bureau, a national green business certifier of several MN businesses.
- The national B Rating System of B Corporation certifies business adoption of comprehensive and transparent social and environmental standards. B Corporations are the only entities that have legally expanded their corporate responsibility to explicitly aim to benefit society as well as shareholders. See details and information about Sunrise Community Banks of St. Paul.
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