Boston received its latest honor for the City's work in environmental policy and sustainbility, being named one of the top 5 greenest cities in the US in a study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and comissioned by Siemens Corp

Local Sustainable Business Recognizes

Past Decade’s Top Conservers

Boston Firm Presents Inaugural Award for Environmental Stewardship

 

LaGRANGE, Ga., [January 28, 2010] – ECOlogic, a MilliCare franchise with offices in Boston and Chicago recently presented seven local businesses with the inaugural “10 Year Environmental Steward Award.” The award, given to Boston-area businesses, recognizes their reduction in environmental impact as a result of utilizing sustainable cleaning methods.

Pledging to use sustainable methods to clean carpeted surfaces, each participating organization helped prevent energy, water and carbon emissions with a total savings of 485,649 total gallons of water, 94,899 KWh of energy usage saved and 52.7 tons of carbon emissions. The reduction in water usage alone has resulted in saving 7.8 million gallons - enough to fill 13 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

The concept of energy efficiency stands apart from other cleantech and green building initiatives in a very important way: It's relatively cheap. If you think about it, the cleanest and cheapest kilowatt of energy is the one never used. So even if there is an upfront cost to put efficiency measures into place, the return is never-ending. That means within a few months or years, you're putting money back into your pocket. That's a form of green we can all agree on.

With the new-found awareness of the potential of energy efficiency, 2010 promises to be a year of action. There are three key factors that get people to take action: incentives, funding and solutions that are proven to work.