GBB Points
Accomplishments
Commitments
Total Points Earned
Initiative |
Category |
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Use high-efficiency plumbing fixtures, like high efficiency toilets (HETs) and urinals (HEUs) |
Water Use |
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Upgrade from older fluorescent T12, T8 and T5 lamps to LED alternatives |
Energy & Emissions |
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Offer repair services to extend the life of products and discourage purchasing new items |
Retail |
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Implement a comprehensive recycling program including education, proper sinage, and monitoring |
Consumption & Waste |
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Optimize your on-premise servers and business systems by ensuring the hardware is up-to-date and energy efficient |
Energy & Emissions |
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Use washable electrostatic furnace and air conditioning filters |
Energy & Emissions |
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Plant native, regionally-friendly plants to minimize water use and impact on local habitat |
Water Use |
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Install or choose a building with electric charging stations on site |
Transportation |
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Meet if not exceed Federal and State regulations for your industry |
Governance |
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Eliminate all single-use paper, styrofoam or plastic cups, plates, and utensils in the kitchen area. Use reusable mugs, dishes, and silverware instead |
Consumption & Waste |
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Schedule regular maintenance on company vehicles to ensure each vehicle is operating as efficiently as possible to reduce emissions |
Transportation |
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Install light switch occupancy sensors in proper locations to automatically turn off lighting when no one is present |
Energy & Emissions |
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Provide a benefits package that meets the needs of employees, and is well-defined, accessible and transparent to all workers |
Workplace & Culture |
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Carve out a “no meetings” day during the work week |
Workplace & Culture |
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Choose a pest control service that minimizes the use of toxic pesticides |
Consumption & Waste |
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Install a programmable thermostat to automate your HVAC or A/C system |
Energy & Emissions |
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Define, institute, and clearly communicate a policy to prioritize employee diversity, equity, and inclusion |
Workplace & Culture |
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Implement a supplier code of conduct policy |
Consumption & Waste |
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Arrange the workspace to take advantage of areas with natural sunlight |
Energy & Emissions |
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Philanthropically donate a percentage of your revenue or profits and/or company time to an environmental cause |
Community & Society |
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Reserve at least one day a year when your company volunteers for local environmental or community projects (e.g., Habitat for Humanity, Earth Day, Save a Tree) |
Community & Society |
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Optimize the color of your outside walls and the roof for your climate |
Energy & Emissions |
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Construct a vegetable garden on roof, facility grounds, or a communtiy garden in close proximity to the office |
Workplace & Culture |
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Use sensors on vending machines and place machines in shaded areas. |
Retail |
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Provide an annual public report or update on your company’s environmental and social responsibility efforts, initiatives, and improvements |
Community & Society |
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Develop an office thermostat policy that maintains internal air temperature within the recommended temperature range, and eliminates A/C and heating usage when the building is not occupied |
Energy & Emissions |
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Provide equitable opportunities to ensure women have equal access to employment, leadership roles, and pay |
Workplace & Culture |
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Provide fair and appropriate breaks for workers based on hours worked and enforce a strict policy that they must take them |
Workplace & Culture |
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Institute a policy for providing training, certification, and professional development opportunities to employees |
Workplace & Culture |
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Grow an at-home or community food garden |
Work from Home |
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Create and implement a human health and safety policy |
Governance |
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Adhere to labor, child labor, forced labor, and reasonable working hour laws and practices |
Governance |
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Keep corporate accounting accurate and up-to-date, enabling operation decisions to be made about investing, hiring, and project management |
Governance |
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Offer a product which the proceeds go to an environmental or social cause |
Retail |
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Implement “Just-In-Time” inventory systems to avoid overstocking and product obsolescence |
Retail |
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Ship products with least amount of packaging possible |
Retail |
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Properly dispose of all hazardous waste materials including batteries, paint and chemicals, lightbulbs, aerosol cans, and electronics |
Consumption & Waste |
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Resell your used corrugated cardboard boxes. |
Retail |
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Install water flow rate controls (aerators) on faucets |
Water Use |
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Install a filtered water tap or water bottle refill station that provide high-quality drinking water |
Water Use |
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Conduct an energy assessment/audit to pinpoint specific areas of energy use and waste |
Energy & Emissions |
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Ensure all windows and doors are properly installed, functioning, maintained, and weather-stripped, etc. |
Energy & Emissions |
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Encourage employee carpools |
Transportation |
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Significantly limit the amount of physical marketing materials you produce |
Consumption & Waste |
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Replace regular light bulbs with LED bulbs |
Energy & Emissions |
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Undergo regular and complete check-ups and maintenance of your HVAC or A/C system |
Energy & Emissions |
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Establish a paperless billing program for your customers |
Consumption & Waste |
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Use concentrated cleaning products |
Consumption & Waste |
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Have accessible green space somewhere onsite or in close proximity to grounds |
Workplace & Culture |
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Regularly evaluate employee satisfaction through interviews, surveys, or calculation of employee net promoter score |
Workplace & Culture |
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Establish company-wide local community volunteer days and create a company-wide challenge to see who can volunteer in the community at a green event the most throughout the year |
Work from Home |
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Conduct multiple quality checks on your products and/or services before distributing to consumers to ensure highest possible quality |
Governance |
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Conduct investigations of ethical violations, and when substantiated hand out fair and reasonable consequences |
Governance |
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Install timers on non-essential electrical appliances |
Energy & Emissions |
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Choose paperless billing with vendors, business partners, and suppliers when possible |
Consumption & Waste |
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Eliminate unnecessary paper usage as much as possible including forms, contracts, meeting agendas and materials, proofs, and drafts |
Consumption & Waste |
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Administer company-wide employee training on sustainability efforts both at work and at home |
Workplace & Culture |
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Conduct exit interviews to gain insights on company culture and operations and make improvements based on feedback |
Workplace & Culture |
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Give opportunity for all employees to provide feedback of any kind and feel secure and empowered to do so |
Workplace & Culture |
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Apply window film to reduce excess solar heat in the building |
Energy & Emissions |
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Become an active member, either by serving on the board, donating or volunteering time for an organization that continually works to improve the environment |
Community & Society |
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Recycle or sell your used toner cartridges |
Consumption & Waste |
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Purchase recycled or remanufactured toner cartridges |
Consumption & Waste |
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Change your HVAC or A/C filters every six months or more frequently as is recommended by filter type |
Energy & Emissions |
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Regularly test your irrigation system to ensure proper configuration, optimized watering schedule, and eliminate overwatering and waste |
Water Use |
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Designate carpool, hybrid, and EV parking spaces that are in preferred areas of your parking lot (e.g. closer to the building entrance or covered) |
Transportation |
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Reduce junk mail by removing your organization’s name from national direct marketing databases |
Consumption & Waste |
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Use a sustainable web hosting service |
Energy & Emissions |
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Reuse, sell, or donate used or unneeded furniture, equipment, and office supplies |
Consumption & Waste |
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Use virtual meeting platforms to replace travel when possible |
Transportation |
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Donate old and unused merchandise to a local charity. |
Retail |
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Communicate your social responsibility initiatives with customers and other stakeholders in a way that clearly defines your company values, policies, objectives and actual performance |
Community & Society |
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Add shades/window covering to reduce heat gain |
Energy & Emissions |
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Provide regular formal review, linked to a comprehensive development plan, with clear and constructive feedback to all employees |
Workplace & Culture |
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Use a shared or centralized printer |
Consumption & Waste |
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Establish a clear governance and decision-making structure, including the composition of the board of directors, board committees, executives, and shareholders |
Governance |
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Create and implement a policy for protecting sensitive information |
Governance |
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Conduct regular cyber/data security checks |
Governance |
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Create and implement an employee code of conduct |
Governance |
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Create and enforce a whistleblowing policy |
Governance |
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Create and enforce a policy for preventing and addressing discrimination and harassment |
Governance |
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Regularly disclose business practices, operations, and financial statements to shareholders and stakeholders |
Governance |
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Train employees on your cyber/data security policies and what to do in case of a potential breach |
Governance |
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Designate your office as a smoke-free working environment with outside smoking areas 25 feet away from building entry areas and common walkways |
Workplace & Culture |
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Use ceiling fans in place of air conditioning when possible |
Energy & Emissions |
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Offer environmentally friendly gift-wrapping options, such as recycled wrapping papers, tissue paper, bags, and boxes. |
Retail |
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Commit to inviting, receiving and acting upon customer and community feedback in a welcoming and constructive way at all times. |
Community & Society |
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Document board meetings with minutes and final write-up/reports and distributed to all essential members |
Governance |
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Organize a sustainability committee to lead your organization’s sustainability program |
Prerequisites |
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Complete the GBB getting started steps |
Prerequisites |
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Develop a sustainability mission statement for your business and define your company’s core commitments |
Prerequisites |
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Populate your company’s sustainability accomplishments in your profile |
Prerequisites |
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Announce your commitment to GBB to all employees |
Prerequisites |
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Use natural odor elimination |
Workplace & Culture |
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Relax the office dress code to allow for attire that doesn’t require dry cleaning |
Workplace & Culture |
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Use an environmentally friendly display board instead of foam core board to post memos, schedules and other notices in a centralized area. |
Retail |
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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. |
Retail |