Green Certified Web
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This site is Green Certified by
www.GreenCertifiedWeb.org. The
organization who owns this web site has
integrated Sustainable processes
into their business and is committed
to doing even more to preserve Natural
Resources in their day to day
business practice. They paid to be trained in being green in business, for the opportunity to do a business self evaluation and to share
the results of that evaluation with you, the visitor to their web site. The list of sustainable processes listed below is based on a "self evaluation." |
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Certified Web Site: |
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www.GreenCertifiedWeb.org |
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Company: |
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GreenCertifiedWeb.org |
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City, State: |
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Irvine, CA |
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Certification Valid From: |
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8/1/2010 2:07:33 PM |
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Certification Valid To: |
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8/1/2017 2:07:33 PM |
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Below are some of the Eco-Friendly practices
this business claims are currently part of their sustainability efforts. No business exists that isn't constantly growing and working to
be better. Check back
to see new ways they have found to be green. As this business becomes more sustainable, these changes will be
posted here... |
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Sustainability Efforts - How this Business is Green: |
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Please tell us about what your company or organization does
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GreenCertifiedWeb.org is the issuer of this certificate. We help businesses show their customers what they are doing to be ecologically friendly through our certification process.
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Tell us something about your company and your efforts to go green and be sustainable:
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We are focused on integrating sustainable practices in our own business and help other businesses do the same.
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Is there anything special or unique about your web site or internet presence that is sustainable or helps the environment?
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Our datacenter cools using outside air and reducing their energy usage by about 40%.
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Our recycling program consists of:
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We provide recycling bins in our office: We got our recycle bins FREE from www.BottlesAndCans.com
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We purchase recycled products:
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Paper with at least 30% post-consumer recycle stock: We are nearly a paperless office using a case of paper about every 2 years.
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When it comes to employee transportation:
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We provide information about public transportation at the office: We post information about public transportation on our bulletin board.
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We regulate the temperature in our business by:
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Using a programmable thermostat: Our thermostat is set to 68 degrees in the winter and 74 degrees in the summer.
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Our lighting in our business is...
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100% Compact Fluorescent Lighting (CFL) and LED lighting: We purchased floor lamps for every desk and leave the overhead fluorescent lights off reducing our overall use of electricity for lighting by at least 91%.
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Stand by electronics like printers, chargers and computer speakers are...
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some are turned off at night, others stay on to help run the business
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When buying electronic products for our office, we...
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Balance Cost against energy efficience but do our best to be energy efficient
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Whenever possible, we buy locally
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We take the stairs rather than the elevator to work.
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We turn off all computers and monitors at night which saves 4 barrels of oil per year per computer.
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Our computers go into standby mode after 1 hour of nonuse.
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We encourage our staff ot avoid printing emails
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We prefer to telecommute and avoid flying
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We do most customer business (registration, invoicing, contracts, etc.) over the phone, web site or through email.: Our web site has an internal interface for managing most of our customer needs.
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We avoid using .doc and other large file formats and convert all web based documents to .PDF file format.
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Our web site is designed to be fast loading by limiting the size of graphics and image files.
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We do not use Flash on our site or our Flash uses Vector graphics and text to avoid large bitmap image files.
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Our site is simple with minimal graphics.
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Our web site hosting company is green and eco-friendly: We host our own web site on our own virtual servers.
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The datacenter our web site is hosted in is green and eco-friendly: We are in the Corporate Colocation datecenter. The first green datacenter in Los Angeles
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