Become a completely remote company

Require all suppliers/vendors meet your environmental commitments

Provide a living wage for all employees

Provide a comprehensive benefits package

Identify and manage suppliers’ sustainability risks

Evaluate your organization’s social footprint

Establish an employment pathway program for local youths

Implement a green procurement policy

Prioritize working with minority-owned and local businesses

Transition to 50% or more remote work

Provide equitable pay and leadership opportunities for women

Institute a professional development policy

Upgrade fluorescent tube lights to LED

Complete a consumption and waste audit

Conduct quality checks on products and services

Provide regular formal employee reviews

Build a diverse executive leadership team

Create a detailed risk management plan

Conduct investigations of ethical violations

Implement a “no meetings” day

Eliminate all single-use kitchenware

Properly dispose of all hazardous waste

Administer company-wide sustainability training

Screen partners’ social and environmental responsibility

Provide a social or environmental product or service

Buy certified energy efficient office equipment

Exceed federal and state regulations for your industry

Install a filtered water tap

Regularly replace HVAC filters

Prioritize local, organic, and fair trade food

Provide an annual public sustainability report

Have accessible green space

Establish a diversity, equity, and inclusion policy

Require leaders to be trained in ESG policies

Evaluate employee satisfaction

Sponsor an annual local sustainability event

Arrange workspace for natural sunlight

Use a non-toxic pest control service

Designate preferred carpool and EV parking spaces

Select used or recycled office equipment and furniture

Hold at least one volunteer day a year

Ship with bio-based, recycled, or FSC-certified boxes and bags

Implement a sustainability process for meetings and events

Have on-site bike racks

Conduct exit interviews

Ensure employees take breaks

Have the board assess sustainability performance

Implement a human health and safety policy

Adhere to labor laws and practices

Implement an employee code of conduct policy

Implement a whistleblowing policy

Implement discrimination and harassment policy

Replace light bulbs with LEDs

Encourage employee carpools

Evaluate feedback about violations of ethics and conduct policy

Eliminate physical marketing materials

Use paperless billing

Implement an employee feedback system

Conduct regular cyber security checks

Conduct regular irrigation system checks

Eliminate unnecessary internal paper usage

Commit to receiving and acting on customer feedback

Develop a paper reduction policy

Unplug appliances when not in use

Eliminate all physical marketing materials

Implement a sensitive information protection policy

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