Green Business Best Practices


For Office, Retail, Restaurants, Automotive, Grocery, Lawn/Landscape, Pet Grooming

Bring Your Green to Work - energystar.gov

Chicago Green Office Challenge

Office Tenants:
http://www.chicagogreenofficechallenge.org/pages/outreach_strategies/51.php
Property Managers and Building Managers: http://www.chicagogreenofficechallenge.org/pages/energy/16.php

Cleaning and Maintenance

http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/en/consumer/buildings/commercial/cleaning.htm

Use green cleaning products and eco-clean your office, www.responsiblepurchasing.org and www.epa.gov/oppt/epp/pubs/vendors.

Educate cleaning staff about how to understand product content and labels, www.greenerchoices.org/eco-labels.

Purchasing

Refer to the Environmentally Preferred Purchasing list created by the Florida Department of Management Services.