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
HoSt Bio Energy Systems is one of our newest certified Green Businesses! We're excited to have them joining our network of businesses working to operate efficiently, reduce their environmental impact, and offer employees a healthy workplace. Read on to learn more about their hard work! Can you describe the overall sustainability messaging of HoSt Bio Energy Systems? "Our company's tag line is 'Empowering Sustainability Ambitions.' HoSt has been around since the early 90's turning waste into energy, or "Renewable Natural Gas." Cow manure, other ...
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Green Business Spotlight: C-TRAN
C-TRAN has been providing public transportation services to residents of Clark County since 1981. Environmental sustainability has been incorporated into C-TRAN's 60-year vision statement: "C-TRAN services contribute positively to the region's sustainability, livability and economic vitality by helping manage traffic congestion, reduce dependence on foreign oil, lower carbon emissions, contain transportation costs for employers and employees, enable denser land use and development of urban areas, and provide essential transport to persons with no other means of travel."
After becoming a certified Clark County Green Business in 2019, C-TRAN was named the recipient of the Clark County Green Business of the Year award in 2021.
C-TRAN's Green Team was founded in 2017 and is an employee led group that drives forward sustainability projects within the company. This group meets monthly and welcomes members across many divisions at the organization. The Green Team brings together employees from Administration, Maintenance, Customer Service and Operations to support sustainable business practices and create green goals.
Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Pictured is a hybrid bus currently in service in C-TRAN's fleet.
C-TRAN has embraced sustainability in daily operations and with vehicle replacements. Currently more than half of C-TRAN's bus fleet is hybrid diesel-electric vehicles. In 2021 C-TRAN's Board of Directors approved the purchase of eight all-electric buses. These vehicles have been ordered and are expected to arrive in 2023. Electric bus charging stations were installed at the bus yard facility recently in preparation for this exciting change.
New charging stations were recently installed at C-TRAN’s bus yard facility, in anticipation of eight battery-electric buses arriving in 2023.
In May 2022 C-TRAN committed to elevating its sustainability efforts and created a goal to form a zero emissions fleet by 2040. C-TRAN brought a consulting firm on board to create an Alternative Fuel Feasibility Study and to work on developing a Zero Emission Bus Transition Plan.
In December 2022, the Zero Emission Bus Transition Plan was presented to the C-TRAN Board of Directors. "It outlines two main paths that C-TRAN and other transit agencies are exploring in the coming years: battery-electric buses or hydrogen fuel cell buses. Pursuing one or both of these alternative fuel options creates a roadmap for C-TRAN to convert our existing diesel and hybrid fleet to a 100 percent zero-emission fleet by 2040," said Eric Florip, C-TRAN Manager of Communications and Marketing.
Latest News
April 18, 2024
Metal cans, plastic bottles, glass bottles and jars, paper and cardboard are all common items and packaging that we know we can toss in either our curbside recycling cart or glass bin at home. While commercial recycling service in Clark County accepts the same types of materials that residential rec...
Green Biz Events
May Morning Blend
05-01-2024 8:30 am
–10:00 am
Free
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.”.
Green Businesses
New Seasons provides the best mix of products, from Frosted Flakes to free-range chicken. Building a market for local and regional products and supporting family farms New Seasons aims to give back to our community, and to create a progressive workplace.
Vancouver, WA
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Clark County recycler, specializing in electronics recycling, data destruction, appliance recycling and packing foam recycling.
Vancouver, Washington
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Chiropractic care and massage therapy
Vancouver, Washington
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Independently minded, community focused theatre in downtown Vancouver.
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.
