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22
Nov

Employee Engagement: Don’t Overlook Hearts & Minds

Corporate sustainability leads often spend a lot of time on technology—identifying the upgrades that will reduce water, energy and emissions. At one level that focus makes sense, especially right now when there’s so much emerging opportunity around smart devices.

Amid the enthusiasm for technology, though, it’s important to remember that people—employees—are at the core of every operation.

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21
Nov

Sustainable Gift Ideas for the Holidays

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The holiday season is the perfect time to remind the people you love that you care. Often, exchanging gifts shows your appreciation for someone’s place in your life. This holiday season, you can say even more with your gifts – you can use holiday gift giving as an opportunity to show your gratitude for the planet too. Shopping for sustainable gifts this holiday season can help ensure the products you buy are ethically and environmentally produced.

Here are some sustainable gift ideas and tips to keep in mind as you begin shopping this holiday season. 

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20
Nov

Cool Choices at Sustainable Brands New Metrics ’17

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Cool Choices was proud to be a sponsor of the Sustainable Brands New Metrics 2017 conference this year in Philadelphia, PA. New Metrics is a gathering of forward-thinking organizations that are motivated to implement new ways to create, measure, and communicate business value.

Instead of wondering how to “be profitable and see what we can do about sustainability,” leading companies are now working to measure – and reduce – the total social cost of doing business. And it’s an exciting conversation!

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13
Nov

Waukesha County Made A Lot of Cool Choices

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In September Cool Choices partnered with various local entities in Waukesha County, Wisconsin on a community scale sustainability program. That program is now complete – ending on November 10, 2017. Below are highlights from the data participants shared with us via our game-based platform. We are excited to report on this data and the achievements of the program, which make it a true success for Waukesha County businesses and residents.

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8
Nov

Building Momentum Around Sustainability

Environmental sustainability is one of those interesting fields where being successful can make your work more challenging going forward—reducing waste gets harder and harder as you have less waste to eliminate.

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6
Nov

Play Cool Choices at Greenbuild

We’re excited to have a small role in the USGBC’s Greenbuild 2017 conference in Boston.

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23
Oct

Delivering Short and Long-Term Sustainability Results

From the onset, the team at Cool Choices has been obsessed with results. Perhaps it’s to be expected: we’re a nonprofit, with a mission of inspiring voluntary actions that reduce emissions associated with climate change. More, the scale of the challenge we faced—inspiring behaviors (which is always difficult, even at the personal level) to address climate change (an issue that can feel insurmountable)—was both hard and important, not leaving a lot of room for error.

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23
Oct

Addressing Employee Suggestions: A Real World Challenge

“The suggestions from building occupants can get pretty overwhelming – how can I be responsive, as you recommend, when we can’t address everything immediately?”

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19
Oct

Engaging Employees to Accelerate Sustainability Efforts

We say it a lot as an explanation of what we do; “we help companies accelerate their corporate sustainability efforts via employee engagement.”

But how exactly does employee engagement accelerate sustainability?

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19
Oct

Beyond the Game: Start With Small Sustainable Actions

Past players of the Cool Choices game-based sustainability program continue to make sustainable choices in their everyday lives even after the program ends. We are always impressed to learn how participating in Cool Choices impacts individuals and their decisions to take further sustainable actions. This month we were inspired by Sarah’s story!

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