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Green Business Certification: photo of a child holding the 'Thursday Envelope', a waste reduction strategy in use at Noddin Elementary School. Weekly communications between parents and school faculty travel home with the children in reuseable envelopes.Green Business certification is a voluntary program that encourages businesses, including schools, to take actions that benefit both their bottom line and the environment.

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A San José School can be recognized as a Green Business if it:

  • Demonstrates compliance with all applicable environmental regulations,
  • Conserves energy, water, and other resources,
  • Implements sound environmental practices that prevent pollution and waste generation, and
  • Shares environmentally responsible practices with other businesses in the community…

County of Santa Clara
Green Business Program
Lisa Rose: (408) 282-3180
lisa.rose@aem.sccgov.org
www.sccgov.org

Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG)
Bay Area Green Business Program
Lisa Rose: (408) 282-3180
lisa.rose@aem.sccgov.org
www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/enviro/gbus/gb.html

 

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Last Modified Date: 8/25/2009

 
 

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