Require all suppliers/vendors meet your environmental commitments

Provide a living wage for all employees

Measure environmental impact along supply chain

Sell products that are certified carbon neutral

Provide a comprehensive benefits package

Provide 20 weeks paid family leave

Identify and manage suppliers’ sustainability risks

Operate in a certified green building

Evaluate your organization’s social footprint

Provide 12 weeks paid family leave

Compost food waste

Implement a green procurement policy

Implement a water use and conservation plan

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

Implement a comprehensive recycling program

Conduct quality checks on products and services

Install automatic faucets

Choose a building with easy public transit access

Provide regular formal employee reviews

Build a diverse executive leadership team

Compost home food waste

Create a detailed risk management plan

Conduct investigations of ethical violations

Purchase local, in-season produce

Designate a percentage of the procurement budget for local suppliers

Eliminate all single-use kitchenware

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

Provide transit passes or funds

Buy certified energy efficient office equipment

Recycle household waste

Use 100% bio-based trash liners

Exceed federal and state regulations for your industry

Disclose any risks to the environment or the public created by products or operations

Install a filtered water tap

Provide an annual public sustainability report

Have accessible green space

Establish a diversity, equity, and inclusion policy

Provide a third party for conflict resolution

Use chlorine-free and FSC-certified paper products

Require leaders to be trained in ESG policies

Evaluate employee satisfaction

Work with a suppliers or external companies to develop a take-back program for reusable or recyclable material

Send products in bulk with fewer trips

Assess your vendors’ procurement practices

Purchase 100% recycled or FSC-certified paper

Arrange workspace for natural sunlight

Designate preferred carpool and EV parking spaces

Select used or recycled office equipment and furniture

Hold at least one volunteer day a year

Place plants throughout the office

Develop an office thermostat policy

Conduct exit interviews

Ensure employees take breaks

Eliminate single-use kitchenware

Eliminate single-use water bottles

Use reusable bags

Use an eco-friendly home pest control service

Properly dispose of all household hazardous waste

Purchase 50-100% recycled home paper products

Switch entirely to rechargeable batteries

Have a diverse board

Have the board assess sustainability performance

Pay top executives based on workforce, performance, and industry

Determine executive bonuses based on ESG 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

Keep accounting accurate and up-to-date

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

Ship products with least amount of packaging possible

Replace light bulbs with LEDs

Offer a selection of responsibly produced zero-waste products

Encourage employee carpools

Resell your used corrugated cardboard boxes.

Fairly compensate board members

Evaluate feedback about violations of ethics and conduct policy

Purchase energy-efficient portable AC units or fans

Purchase recycled toner cartridges

Eliminate physical marketing materials

Use non-toxic, bio-based cleaning products

Use paperless billing

Work with vendors to minimize product packaging.

Use concentrated cleaning products

Implement an employee feedback system

Add home window coverings

Have a majority independent board

Conduct regular cyber security checks

Place an employee on a sustainability event committee

Eliminate unnecessary internal paper usage

Repurpose unused office items

Eliminate the use of plastic bags (paper bags, preferably made with minimum 40% post consumer waste, or BPI certified compostable bags are acceptable).

Commit to receiving and acting on customer feedback

Donate used clothing and furniture

Create a community engagement team

Offer a plastic or paper bag collection and recycling program

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

Unplug appliances when not in use

Print and copy double-sided

Use packaging for food and other in-store packaging needs, such as for fragile items, made out of sustainable or recycled containers.

Use biodegradable or compostable food service supplies for wine and food tastings.

Donate old and unused merchandise to a local charity.

Eliminate all physical marketing materials

Use recycled office supplies

Use a shared printer

Document board meetings

Hold shareholder meetings

Implement a conflict of interest policy

Implement a board member election process

Implement a policy for removing board members

Establish a clear governance structure

Implement a sensitive information protection policy

Establish a shareholder rights policy

Communicate pricing and services transparently

Disclose information about political contributions and lobbying

Offer durable reusable bags for a fee in place of single-use plastic or paper bags

Train employees on cyber and data security procedures

Implement a quarterly donation drive or designated permanent donation space at store locations

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

Use LED lights in displays

Donate seasonal or promotional displays, rather than discarding

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.