Become a completely remote company

Provide a living wage for all employees

Provide a comprehensive benefits package

Provide 20 weeks paid family leave

Have a four-day work week

Install high-efficiency plumbing fixtures

Provide 12 weeks paid family leave

Compost food waste

Provide equitable pay and leadership opportunities for women

Institute a professional development policy

Grow a food garden

Upgrade fluorescent tube lights to LED

Upgrade and optimize on-premise servers

Ensure employees take vacation time

Provide regular formal employee reviews

Build a diverse executive leadership team

Compost home food waste

Conduct investigations of ethical violations

Plant native, regionally-friendly plants

Purchase local, in-season produce

Eliminate all single-use kitchenware

Properly dispose of all hazardous waste

Offset unavoidable travel emissions

Donate a percentage of profits to an environmental cause

Construct an on-site garden

Administer company-wide sustainability training

Provide a social or environmental product or service

Install a programmable home thermostat

Recycle household waste

Install a filtered water tap

Provide an annual public sustainability report

Have accessible green space

Establish a diversity, equity, and inclusion policy

Seal, weather-strip, and maintain all windows

Measure carbon footprint

Require leaders to be trained in ESG policies

Evaluate employee satisfaction

Use smart power strips

Collect rainwater for home garden irrigation

Arrange workspace for natural sunlight

Select used or recycled office equipment and furniture

Hold at least one volunteer day a year

Place plants throughout the office

Implement a sustainability process for meetings and events

Conduct exit interviews

Ensure employees take breaks

Maintain and weather-strip home windows

Landscape with native plants

Use bio-based cleaning products

Use concentrated cleaning solutions

Eliminate single-use kitchenware

Eliminate single-use water bottles

Use reusable bags

Properly dispose of all household hazardous waste

Switch entirely to rechargeable batteries

Have a diverse board

Implement a human health and safety policy

Adhere to labor laws and practices

Implement an employee code of conduct policy

Implement discrimination and harassment policy

Keep accounting accurate and up-to-date

Replace light bulbs with LEDs

Encourage employee carpools

Evaluate feedback about violations of ethics and conduct policy

Eliminate physical marketing materials

Use non-toxic, bio-based cleaning products

Use paperless billing

Evaluate stakeholder satisfaction through feedback systems

Use concentrated cleaning products

Implement an employee feedback system

Use natural light for 75% of the day

Add home window coverings

Use reusable cleaning products

Conduct regular cyber security checks

Eliminate unnecessary internal paper usage

Repurpose unused office items

Commit to receiving and acting on customer feedback

Install LED bulbs throughout home work space

Optimize home office for natural light

Unplug non-essential appliances

Donate used clothing and furniture

Create a community engagement team

Recycle used toner cartridges

Develop a paper reduction policy

Open windows in place of air conditioning

Switch entirely to rechargeable batteries

Use reusable cleaning products

Unplug appliances when not in use

Print and copy double-sided

Eliminate all physical marketing materials

Implement a sensitive information protection policy

Communicate pricing and services transparently

Train employees on cyber and data security procedures

Designate your office as a smoke-free working environment with outside smoking areas 25 feet away from building entry areas and common walkways

Use ceiling fans in place of air conditioning

Organize a sustainability committee to lead your organization’s sustainability program

Complete the GBB getting started steps

Develop a sustainability mission statement for your business and define your company’s core commitments

Populate your company’s sustainability accomplishments in your profile

Announce your commitment to GBB to all employees