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Our nonprofit energy efficiency & renewable energy business of 170 people adopted a %u201Cbig hairy audacious goal%u201D (BHAG) to offset our carbon footprint by 10,000-fold in 20 years! By 2027, we%u2019ll be avoiding 10,000 pounds of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for every pound we contribute, and we'll be avoiding 20 million tons annually of GHG emissions by 2027. We%u2019re not just as a business, but we%u2019re a community, so in calculating our carbon footprint, we included our personal & household impacts. The personal decisions we make %u2013 the foods we eat, where we go on vacation, the cars we drive - have great impacts. We%u2019ll use a toolkit to achieve our BHAG, including software to track emissions & progress, social networking (contests, brown-bag discussions) & incentives from the business to inspire & motivate us, and we'll explore other ideas like internal carbon trading. We think that acting as a community is a powerful model that can work and that we%u2019d love to share with other businesses!
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Ray McKenzie | Posted: 2 April 2009
Spring Hill-dependable,honest,on time on budget
Eric Caswell | Posted: 2 April 2009
We all have to work together to solve our problems. I applaud Spring Hill's collaborative approach to help with a major issue.
Bill Maclay | Posted: 2 April 2009
This proposal serves an essential need to change our behavior in an implementatable and reproducible way. And the three organizations are all incredibly qualified and experienced so that the project will have the greatest impact and sucess
Julia Curry | Posted: 2 April 2009
This strikes me as the most powerful proposal for "empowering individual action" because it uses a strong existing network (the workplace) to involve people in an ongoing process. That will really help people stick with the goal, whereas tackling it atomistically is *much* harder. In addition this could produce a model that other workplaces can use.
Flip Brown | Posted: 2 April 2009
I know Spring Hill Solutions, VEIC, and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters - what an amazing partnership of socially-responsible organizations. This goes beyond "change we can believe in" - it is the implementation of change. I truly hope this project moves forward.
Flip Brown, Business Culture Consultants
Stephen Frey | Posted: 2 April 2009
I support this project! All of the project partners have great goals in mind and this would be a great test bed of new ideas able to be used in the workplace to lower our carbon footprint.
Rob Smart | Posted: 2 April 2009
Having worked with Springhill Consulting, and having met with various members of this collaborative team, giving them the means to accelerate their great work has the potential to serve as a results-oriented roll model for other regions. I give them my highest recommendation!
Cheers,
Rob Smart
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Rob Howe | Posted: 2 April 2009
Spring Hill Solutinos has a great idea and I place my vote with them!
elise brooks | Posted: 2 April 2009
Let's go solar!
Elise
Brendan Robinson | Posted: 2 April 2009
Let's rock!
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