Businesses
While climate change poses risks to Connecticut businesses, it also is an opportunity for innovation. Some of the following initiatives can help your Connecticut businesses address the risks and leverage the opportunities of climate change.
Learn from Other Business Leaders
View CT business climate heroes.
Access Funding and Resources to Green Your Business
CT Business Sustainability Challenge – This program is being launched through the CT Energy Efficiency Fund. Check back soon for additional information.
Yale Center for Business and the Environment - Programs and events to support business sustainability.
CT Green Building Council - A non-profit organization that seeks to improve the quality of life in Connecticut through the promotion of intelligently designed and constructed high performance energy efficient buildings. The Council sponsors workshops on green building topics, networking opportunities, membership meetings, educational forums, seminars on green buildings and periodic CT based LEED training in connection with the US Green Building Council.
BuildingCTGreen – An online resource for green businesses and green building in Connecticut.
Support Clean Commuting Options
Transportation contributes to almost 40% of the greenhouse gas emissions from Connecticut. Many companies have very successful programs to reduce the number of employees driving alone to work. The programs include telecommuting, ride sharing, public transit, and shuttles and help reduce traffic congestion and employee stress while improving air quality. The following programs can help your business get started:
Telecommute Connecticut - A statewide initiative providing free assistance to CT employers with the design, development and implementation of telecommuting as a worksite alternative.
Connecticut Commuter Services - Free consulting services to improve commuter mobility to help sustain the growth and vitality of our economy and make the state more competitive in the employment marketplace. Call 1-877-CTRIDES (1-877-287-4337) to speak with a CT Commuter Services Representative.
Transit and ride sharing information- Information on carpools, vanpools, buses, shuttles, and trains.
NuRide- A carpool matching service that provides rewards to participants when they carpool, vanpool, bike, walk, telecommute or take public transit.
Best Workplaces for Commuters - An innovative membership program that provides qualified employers with national recognition and an elite designation for offering outstanding commuter benefits, such as free or low cost bus passes and vanpool fares and strong telework programs. View businesses recognized in CT.
Save Money Through Energy Efficiency
The CT Energy Efficiency Fund provides support for small and large businesses on energy efficient design and construction, load response programs, efficiency rebates for lighting, HVAC, refrigeration, motors, and operation and management, and lots more.
Support Clean Energy
Connecticut businesses are supporting clean energy from the electrical grid through the CT Clean Energy Options program.
The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund also provides financial support for clean energy installations such as solar thermal, geothermal, fuel cells, and solar photovoltaic panels.
Learn from Sector Specific Initiatives
Supermarket Industry – The GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership is an EPA cooperative alliance with the supermarket industry and other stakeholders to promote advanced technologies, strategies, and practices that reduce refrigerant charges and emissions of ozone-depleting substances and greenhouse gases.
Hospitals - The Connecticut Hospital Environmental Roundtable provides a setting for hospitals to learn from each other by sharing ideas, presenting success stories, keeping up-to-date on available resources and discussing issues that affect the health care industry.
Be Recognized for Your Successes
CT Climate Change Leadership Award - The Governor’s Steering Committee on Climate Change annually recognizes businesses, organizations, and individuals that have taken exemplary action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change.
Southwest CT Summer Savers Awards Program- recognizes businesses in Fairfield and New Haven Counties that demonstrate substantial reductions in summer peak electricity use.
Learn from CT Business Climate Heroes
CNC Software, Inc.
At CNC Software we keep our environmental awareness at a high level and regularly research and act on ideas to keep our energy and waste profile low.
Curtis Packaging Sustainability
At Curtis, we treasure the natural environment. We produce eye-catching custom folding cartons that are sourced from sustainably managed forests, responsibly manufactured, and easily recyclable.
Eastern Bag & Paper Company
Operational Objective: To reduce our carbon footprint by a specific amount on an annual basis. Currently that amount is undetermined.
Customer Objective: To provide our customers the most comprehensive green/sustainability program which includes products, procedures, quality assurance tools to help them meet their sustainability goals.
ESPN
ESPN strives to create and sustain an environmentally friendly workplace through global policies focusing on sustainability, reducing use of finite resources and minimizing its impact on the environment at offices and remote events. Employees are empowered and encouraged to suggest and implement ideas to achieve the company’s goals.
GG2g, LLC
The foundational premise of GG2g is sustainability. Our mission is to keep viable materials from entering the landfill and to repurpose them with little additional energy expenditure. Our desire to “physically” keep our supply chain short has had significant impact in how we do business. Using suppliers in the community around us is a necessity. Sourcing material and production locally is woven into the fabric of our business, and has played a major role in constraining and guiding how we’ve moved forward.
ING Sustainability
ING’s approach is to prevent, manage and where possible, reduce the environmental impact caused by its operations. We are committed to raising employee awareness of environmental issues and encourage environmentally responsible behavior.
Rockville Bank
Rockville Bank is a leader in Community Banking…helping customers save money and providing educational programs to help manage their finances. Now they are leading the way to help Connecticut save energy and improve efficiency to protect the environment. It all adds up to a healthier place for their customers, employees, community and our planet.
Saybrook Point Inn, Marina and Spa
Saybrook Point Inn & Spa is committed to being the most sustainable lodging establishment, while maintaining the most comfortable environment for our guests. Our pristine location at the mouth of the CT River inspires us to be good stewards.
The Siemon Company
By cultivating a culture of continuous improvement, leadership, and community responsibility, the Siemon Company provides its employees a progressively safe and environmentally responsible workplace, provides its customers innovative and environmentally responsible products and services, and encourages its suppliers to utilize effective environmental management systems. Siemon’s Environmental Management System has been certified to the ISO 14001 Standard since 1998 and serves as an operating framework.
Specialty Printing
To systematically eliminate all waste in our company and train our people to eliminate their waste at home. (Waste is not just trash, it is anything that is non-productive.)
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