Conserve resources, create a healthier work environment for employees, and enhance your recycling and composting programs. Clark County Green Business program offers:
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.
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.
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:
Thatcher's Coffee is a local, woman-owned business that opened in 2012 in the Grand Central Retail Center, located just east of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in Vancouver. Their desires to support the community and reduce their environmental impact have combined to create a warm and welcoming space. Certifying as a Clark County Green Business in 2018, Thatcher's continues to find creative ways to be green, involving their customers in supporting and connecting with the community.
Thatcher's utilizes Energy Star appliances and LED lighting, like many green businesses in the region, but they have also found some really unique ways to reduce waste and model sustainable practices. Thatcher's has moved away from single serving sugar packets to refillable containers for coffee condiments. They are switching to paper straws to reduce their consumption of single-use plastics. In addition to making environmentally friendly choices, Thatcher's models business practices that benefit communities socially and economically. They source their coffee from Heart, a local roaster that purchases their coffee beans directly from farmers, ensuring that they are paid fairly for their product.
When customers bring their own reusable cup, Thatcher's donates ten cents to local charities. In 2019 the program will benefit the Watershed Alliance of Southwest Washington, an organization that works to educate and engage community members to be active stewards of our natural legacy. So far, Thatcher's has seen customers use their own reusable cup over 2,300 times! Customers who forgot to bring their own reusable cup can purchase a Klean Kanteen from Thatcher's. For every Klean Kanteen sold, Thatcher's donates one dollar to the Clark County Food Bank. For those who need their coffee to go and forgot their reusable cup, Thatcher's is switching to straw-less lids for disposable cold beverage cups. So the next time you're looking for a good cup of coffee that makes you feel warm inside, from the hot coffee and the good it does for the community, go to Thatcher's!
If you'd like to incorporate environmentally friendly practices at your workplace but aren't sure where to start, the Green Business program can help! Contact info@clarkgreenbiz.com or join us at a Green Business Morning Blend, where you can learn from other businesses and connect with our staff for help in your sustainability efforts. The next Green Business Morning Blend is at LSW Architects from 8 to 9 am on Thursday, Sept. 19. Register and learn more here.
Are you tired of throwing money away (literally) when you buy single-use serving ware for customers and employees? Would you like to reduce waste, lessen your impact on the environment, and decrease the amount of garbage you produce?
Join us May 1st for a special Clark County Green Business Morning Blend event where we will discuss HOW to ditch the disposables and embrace reusables. We will be joined by guest speakers from two companies that are changing the way businesses think about reuse— Bold Reuse and Okapi Reusables. We will also have information available from the Clark County Food Safety team for those food service businesses that are interested in learning about getting a plan approved to safely refill consumer-owned containers.
This event will be held at Fourth Plain Community Commons, 3101 E 4th Plain Blvd Ste.101, Vancouver, WA 98661. Free parking is available in stalls that are NOT marked “residents.”.
Hopworks creates exceptional beer and food with sustainable business practices that protect our planet and support our community. We use organic malts and a combination of locally-sourced, organic, and Salmon Safe hops.
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