Going Local Going Green



Environmental

When a business makes concerted efforts to mitigate negative environmental impacts, it is going green. Going green means taking action to practice environmentally sound practices that will help your business to lessen its footprint on Earth. Going green does not just attract customers, but can help your business reduce its food costs and utility bills. Going green at your restaurant may be challenging, but doing your part by using environmentally-friendly products and environmentally-conscious practices not only can lessen your impact on the environment, but can help reduce your food costs and utilities bills.


Food Miles

One of the most important ways buying local helps the environment is to decrease food miles. One of the best ways to lower the carbon footprint of your facility is by buying your food from local sources. A sustainable means to procure your food is by purchasing fruits and vegetables that are grown locally, in season.


Seasonal Food

In effect, let us create the demand for and supply of organic, locally grown, seasonal food. Take the farmers market: Consumers can readily access lots of locally grown, homemade food without leaving their communities. For instance, buying groceries from your local farmers market helps to support local producers, growers, and farmers jobs at local farms. All these local businesses with local workers are there because consumers are demanding local goods.


Local Business

It is easier for a local business to get its products in front of its consumers because its consumers are close by. The challenge comes from the fact that so many of our smaller, local businesses are below the radar and they want to stay that way. The claim that local businesses are uncompetitive is not true. Consumers like the idea of knowing where their products are coming from, and supporting local businesses.


Confident Business

An added green advantage to purchasing local is supporting the local workforce. The more your economy is owned by locals, the more plausible it is you can then increase labour and environmental standards, confident businesses will adjust, not run away.


Local Products

To get to economic democracy, we can begin working with small-to-medium size businesses, buying local products, and favoring local businesses over global franchises. Every community should establish business schools geared toward LOIS, evaluate green taxes locally to foster LOIS businesses, start community-owned banks, and establish mutual funds with community-minded goals. The European Green Deal can be achieved only if it empowers local and regional authorities, providing them with the direct funds needed to make priority investments needed by citizens.


Green Deal

The Green Deal Goes Local is an open invitation for local and regional authorities throughout the EU to act and to help cut EU greenhouse gas emissions. Green Deal Going Local wants to inspire and accelerate the transition towards cleaner energy, which brings with it just and sustainable recovery, in a path to making the EU the worlds first climate-neutral continent. Green Deal Going Local is also targeting local and regional authorities throughout the EU, but also private and public stakeholders, European and national land associations, neighborhood associations, and non-governmental organizations that are ready to help speed up the climate-neutral transition. Green Finance is focused on supporting projects at a local, community level, with an emphasis on sustainable, environmentally-friendly farming.


Green Finance

While cash profits are still important, the focus of green finance is to support worthwhile projects that add value to local communities and ecologies. The NFLs emerging businesses program aligns with green buying policies adopted by the teams in the National Football League, creating a solid base of sustainable, beneficial business practices in the Leagues core. Local businesses continue to benefit from the NFLs policies to engage small businesses and minority/woman-owned businesses through the NFL Emerging Business Program. Local teams in the National Football League have also organized community-led green teams--commissions of volunteers, paired with league employees--to encourage recycling and other eco-conscious behaviors by fans and stadium employees on game days.


Emerging Business

The Emerging Business program requires hands-on participation by the Super Bowl host committees, the local organizations charged with getting ready for each years host city for the Super Bowl. Local governments across regions around the world have already prepared such reviews, and several others are now going through this process, which has had a tangible payoff for the SDGs overall. Local and regional governments are increasingly taking part in subnational reviews of SDG implementation, including through preparation of voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs). An increasing number of national governments are already supporting SDG localization in cities and regions, either through technical cooperation or through financial support, but further support is needed.


Pressure

Whether through energy costs reductions or carbon dioxide emissions reductions, the pressure on businesses to adopt sustainable practices is strong, and will only increase. Going green is not just an expense in doing business anymore; it is a catalyst for innovation, new market opportunities, and generating wealth. When green living is combined with political activism, like creating Transition Towns, practicing permaculture, buying products from local farmers, industries, and businesses, protesting unsustainable business practices, and voting for parties that are Green-friendly, we can make even more of an impact. Political activism can be supplemented with starting organic food clubs, bringing together local producers, sharing stories and best practices.


Go Green With Us

The parks holistic "Go Green With Us" program, established in 2015, includes guidelines across park operations to help employees and guests be more environmentally conscious. Green Mountain Energys Go Local Solar plan is certified Green-e Energy and meets the consumer-friendly, green standards established by the non-profit Center for Resource Solutions. The Go Local Solar plan allows you to access 100% of the solar power from Texas Solar Parks, located right here in Texas, and is certified Green-e(r) energy.


Solar Energy

Purchases ensure there is enough locally generated solar energy to meet the electric use at your house. Local does not need chemicals to preserve, nor does it need plastic wrap, as is typically the case with shipping and long-distance processing of products. Making may be expressed by taking measures to lower utility costs, starting programs to recycle and reuse procedures, buying environmentally friendly products and services at the business.




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