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Eco-Business Program

Posted in: Join Eco-Business
By Dave
Aug 15, 2011 - 9:38:13 AM

Your business can be a champion for the environment
AND find cost savings in business practices. Let us show you how.

Be an Eco-Business
 
The Ajax-Pickering Board of Trade is proud
to offer this free program to our members.

Click here to download the phase I checklist.

Click here to download the phase II checklist.

For more information, e-mail nmacdonald@apboardoftrade.com

What is the Eco-Business program?

A: Quite simply, the board has combined the expertise and knowledge of a number of its qualified members to form an Eco Business Advisory Committee. These volunteers have spent many months researching and creating our Eco-Checklist as a resource for businesses to use as a template to evaluate their role in doing all they can to sustain a cleaner environment.

Take the challenge!           
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Simply by taking the challenge, downloading and comparing your business practices to the Eco-Checklist, Ajax-Pickering Board of Trade members earn the right to display our Eco-Business 'Certificate of Commitment'.

That's the first step. Download the Eco-Checklist and get started today! Right-click on the link at the end of this article to save a copy to your computer. It opens with Adobe Reader.

Non-members of the Board of Trade interested in participating are encouraged to seek membership. You are also encouraged to contact Durham Sustain Ability, a partner in the program, to consider joining the DSA Eco-Business Program as well.

The mission of the Environment Task Force: To foster awareness, understanding and action within the business community that sustainable, environmentally responsible practices must be a high priority.

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Earn this certificate after you determine you have met 80 per cent of the requirements on the checklist that apply to the type of operations you have.





Right-click on the link below to
download the checklist! No need to print - the document is now in a savable format when you use Adobe Acrobat Reader. Download to your hard drive and check off the list as you review it. Save it as well, as you go forward, to track actions taken and those still to be considered. Once completed, send it back to Nathan MacDonald at the Board office at nmacdonald@apboardoftrade.com.

Click here to download the phase I checklist.

Click here to download the phase II checklist.

 

What is sustainability?

 In 1983, the United Nations commissioned Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland to study sustainable development. The study, Our Common Future (The Brundtland Report), published in 1987, contains the best-known definition of sustainability:

Sustainability is meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.



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