Improve Your Sustainability
Reap the financial and goodwill rewards of going green
Learn how you can reduce your organization’s carbon footprint and make a commitment to sustainability today
Today, green tech is more affordable than ever, with an abundance of financing programs available to your organization. Customers, vendors, and partners are trending towards supporting more sustainable organizations. Now is the time to focus on sustainability.
Why invest in sustainability now?
As your organization’s old, inefficient systems continue to run and edge closer to their useful life, your energy bills will continue to rise. Replacing them with comparable systems will see the same end result; even worse, this would essentially lock your company into high electric rates for anywhere from 10-20 years. That also means your organization’s carbon footprint will remain the same.
Switching to more efficient or renewable energy equipment solves all of these problems, immediately lowering energy bills and decreasing the impact your company has on the environment. As a result, you will see improvements in your bottom line and cash flows, while still having a positive impact on your community and the environment at large.
The true impact of sustainability
By replacing old fluorescent lights with efficient LED bulbs, adding a rooftop solar array and solar carport, installing HVAC and demand management controls, and having HVAC zoning done on their building, Faber & Brand, a law firm based in Columbia, MO, had a huge impact on the environment.
The amount of CO2 offset in the Faber & Brand project alone is equivalent to…
Passenger vehicles driven for one year
52.3
Miles driven by an average passenger vehicle
598,458
Tons of waste recycled instead of landfilled
85.1
Garbage trucks of waste recycled instead of landfilled
12.2
Gallons of gasoline consumed
27,475
Pounds of coal burned
276,145
Tanker trucks worth of gasoline
3.2
Homes' energy use for one year
26.4
Incandescent lights switched to LEDs
8,172
Barrels of oil consumed
565
Propane cylinders used for home barbeques
9,982
Coal-fired power plants in one year
0.001
Tree seedlings grown for 10 years
6,328
Acres of U.S. forests in one year
288
acres of U.S. forests preserved from conversion to cropland in one year
2
Reap the benefits of going green
The goodwill you receive in your community, decreased energy costs, and increased NOI could be huge for the advancement of your organization.