Green Your Business
Conserve resources, create a healthier work environment for employees, and enhance your recycling and composting programs. Clark County Green Business program offers:
Evaluations to identify opportunities to increase efficiencies and reduce waste
Assistance with recycling and composting programs
Recycling trainings and presentations for employees
Get Certified
Join the growing list of certified Green Businesses. Earning Green Business certification demonstrates to your customers and employees that your business is committed to the environment and to your community.
Recognition as a Green Business
Self-assessment tool
Business-focused networking events, tours and workshops
About Green Biz
The Clark County Green Business Program recognizes businesses for environmental excellence through onsite assistance and verification of green business practices. The program provides an environmental assessment, resources, and assistance to businesses seeking a structured approach to implementing green initiatives and measuring results.
Our businesses demonstrate that going green is not only good for the environment, it is also good for business's bottom line, improving employee morale, increasing operational efficiency and maintaining a positive public image.
2022 Green Business Award Winners
Each year, businesses and community members are presented with awards for their efforts to reduce their environmental footprint and make continuous improvements toward a sustainable future. Our 2022 Clark County Green Business Awards winners:
Green Business Spotlight
The Clark County Green Business team sat down with Eric Florip and Tim Shellenberger from C-TRAN to discuss their sustainability initiatives and how C-TRAN plans to celebrate Ride Transit Month, a monthlong celebration of transit that occurs every June. Read on to learn more! Can you describe the overall sustainability messaging of C-TRAN? "Sustainability is the core of what we do as a transit agency. We're proud to provide a service that helps individuals and communities improve their environmental impact. At C-TRAN, we have also worked to imp...
Latest News
July 15, 2024
Businesses have both direct and indirect impacts on the environment. Much of a business's environmental impact can be measured in terms of resulting greenhouse gas, or GHG, emissions. In this article we are going to cover the topic of employee commuting, which is considered an indirect type of GHG e...
Green Biz Events
August Morning Blend
08-07-2024 9:00 am
–10:30 am
Free
Join us for our August Morning Blend on 8/7 at 9am at the beautiful Mackenzie office to learn more about how sustainability can be incorporated into architecture, interiors, engineering and planning. Hear from Mackenzie staff about how they approach sustainability both in their day-to-day operations as a business and in their projects through best practices and through third party certifications (i.e. LEED, Green Globes).
Please meet at Mackenzie's Vancouver office at 101 E 6th St STE 200, Vancouver, WA 98660 on 8/7 at 9am for coffee and pastries followed by networking, and en engaging tour and presentation by the Mackenzie folks. The Umpqua Bank parking garage next door is available with city parking permits on the upper levels and pay-to-park option on the lower level. Street parking is also available through Parking Kitty.
Green Businesses
Providing a variety of housekeeping services to local Clark County residents and businesses using local green cleaning solutions.
Vancouver, Washington
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Yoga studio
Vancouver, Washington
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Harvest of Peace Microgreens grows small batch, nutrient dense microgreens. Products are grown to order in Clark County and made available for pick up or delivery within two days of harvest.
La Center, Washington
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Columbia Credit Union is a community-minded financial cooperative that’s been serving the residents and businesses of the greater Vancouver and Portland areas since 1952.
Vancouver, WA
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Solid waste regional planning and programs are a cooperative effort of Battle Ground, Camas, Clark County, La Center, Ridgefield, Vancouver, Washougal, and Yacolt.
Solid waste regional planning and programs are a cooperative effort of Battle Ground, Camas, Clark County, La Center, Ridgefield, Vancouver, Washougal, and Yacolt.
