Provide a comprehensive benefits package

Install high-efficiency plumbing fixtures

Provide equitable pay and leadership opportunities for women

Institute a professional development policy

Grow a food garden

Offer repair services to extend the life of products and discourage purchasing new items

Upgrade fluorescent tube lights to LED

Upgrade and optimize on-premise servers

Implement a comprehensive recycling program

Have EV charging stations on-site

Conduct quality checks on products and services

Conduct regular maintenance on vehicles

Install a programmable thermostat

Provide regular formal employee reviews

Conduct investigations of ethical violations

Plant native, regionally-friendly plants

Implement a “no meetings” day

Eliminate all single-use kitchenware

Conduct an energy audit

Properly dispose of all hazardous waste

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

Exceed federal and state regulations for your industry

Install a filtered water tap

Regularly replace HVAC filters

Provide an annual public sustainability report

Have accessible green space

Establish a diversity, equity, and inclusion policy

Seal, weather-strip, and maintain all windows

Evaluate employee satisfaction

Implement a supplier code of conduct policy

Install faucet flow rate controls

Arrange workspace for natural sunlight

Use a non-toxic pest control service

Designate preferred carpool and EV parking spaces

Apply solar window film

Hold at least one volunteer day a year

Install light switch occupancy sensors

Use a sustainable web hosting service

Use sensors on vending machines and place machines in shaded areas.

Develop an office thermostat policy

Conduct exit interviews

Ensure employees take breaks

Use reusable bags

Use an eco-friendly home pest control service

Properly dispose of all household hazardous waste

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

Keep accounting accurate and up-to-date

Disclose business practices and financial statements to stakeholders

Offer a product which the proceeds go to an environmental or social cause

Implement “Just-In-Time” inventory systems to avoid overstocking and product obsolescence

Ship products with least amount of packaging possible

Install timers on non-essential electrical appliances

Replace light bulbs with LEDs

Install window coverings

Encourage employee carpools

Resell your used corrugated cardboard boxes.

Purchase recycled toner cartridges

Eliminate physical marketing materials

Schedule regular HVAC & A/C maintenance

Optimize exterior and roof colors for climate

Use paperless billing

Use concentrated cleaning products

Implement an employee feedback system

Conduct regular cyber security checks

Conduct regular irrigation system checks

Eliminate unnecessary internal paper usage

Repurpose unused office items

Commit to receiving and acting on customer feedback

Create a community engagement team

Recycle used toner cartridges

Donate old and unused merchandise to a local charity.

Use a shared printer

Document board meetings

Establish a clear governance structure

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

Offer environmentally friendly gift-wrapping options, such as recycled wrapping papers, tissue paper, bags, and boxes.

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

Use an environmentally friendly display board instead of foam core board to post memos, schedules and other notices in a centralized area.

Keep a spill kit handy to catch/collect spills from hazardous materials. Make sure there is adequate absorbent material to contain the largest possible spill.