Become a completely remote company

Provide a living wage for all employees

Provide a comprehensive benefits package

Provide 20 weeks paid family leave

Install a smart irrigation system

Operate in a certified green building

Provide equitable pay and leadership opportunities for women

Institute a professional development policy

Grow a food garden

Upgrade fluorescent tube lights to LED

Use a highly efficient hot water heater

Complete a consumption and waste audit

Upgrade and optimize on-premise servers

Conduct regular maintenance on vehicles

Install a programmable thermostat

Provide regular formal employee reviews

Build a diverse executive leadership team

Plant native, regionally-friendly plants

Eliminate all single-use kitchenware

Conduct an energy audit

Properly dispose of all hazardous waste

Offset unavoidable travel emissions

Donate a percentage of profits to an environmental cause

Purchase certified highly efficient appliances

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

Use certified energy efficient home office equipment

Recycle household waste

Install a filtered water tap

Regularly replace HVAC filters

Prioritize local, organic, and fair trade food

Establish a diversity, equity, and inclusion policy

Seal, weather-strip, and maintain all windows

Purchase Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)

Donate surplus meals and edible food items

Evaluate employee satisfaction

Implement a supplier code of conduct policy

Assess your vendors’ procurement practices

Sponsor an annual local sustainability event

Purchase 100% recycled or FSC-certified paper

Arrange workspace for natural sunlight

Use a non-toxic pest control service

Select used or recycled office equipment and furniture

Hold at least one volunteer day a year

Eliminate VOCs

Place plants throughout the office

Use a sustainable web hosting service

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

Implement a sustainability process for meetings and events

Conduct exit interviews

Regularly replace home HVAC filters

Maintain and weather-strip home windows

Landscape with native plants

Use bio-based cleaning products

Properly dispose of all household hazardous waste

Replace light bulbs with LEDs

Encourage employee carpools

Purchase recycled toner cartridges

Eliminate physical marketing materials

Use non-toxic, bio-based cleaning products

Schedule regular HVAC & A/C maintenance

Optimize exterior and roof colors for climate

Use paperless billing

Implement an employee feedback system

Use natural light for 75% of the day

Add home window coverings

Place an employee on a sustainability event committee

Conduct regular irrigation system 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

Unplug non-essential appliances

Donate used clothing and furniture

Create a community engagement team

Purchase 50-100% recycled content trash liners

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

Print and copy double-sided

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