San Francisco Green Business Program

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San Francisco Green Business Program
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Green Business Program

• Our goal is to achieve a healthier and cleaner
  environment by helping businesses integrate
  environmental responsibility into their
  operations in a manner that is sustainable as
  well as profitable.

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Background History

• City-agency Partnership
• Role of ABAG
• Launched in 2004
• Awarded 20 businesses to date

FREE
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Green Business process

• Enrollment
• Compliance Verification
• Conservation Audits
• Reap benefits of being green

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Process Flow

• CONSERVATION
• Water Conservation
• Energy Conservation
• Recycling Composting
• Toxics Reduction
• Wastewater

• COMPLIANCE
• Air Quality
• Wastewater discharge
• Health safety
• Fire Safety

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Why Green Business?

• Sector specific checklists
• Audits by Experts
• Free promotion websites, events
• Did I mention.. FREE??

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Be Green! Support your local Green Business..

• Architects Organic Architect, S B Architect
• Catering Work of Art Catering
• Consulting Sustainable Spaces, Raines Melton
  and Carella
• Design Conscious Creative
• Electronics Recycling HMR
• Retail Rainbow Grocery
• Hotel Tuscan Inn, Courtyard FW
• Marketing Digital Hive, Kollar Design
• Music Rosebud Agency
• Restaurant Warming Hut, Jardinière
• Petcare PetCamp
• Media SF Chronicle
• Paper New Leaf Paper
• Other Corporate Filings, Inc., Aquarium of the
  Bay

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• [phone]
• http//www.sfgreenbiz.org
• Sfgreenbiz_at_sfgov.org