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Tools for Action - Businesses
Businesses -large, small or in-between - can be leaders in
the shift to cleaner electricity. Businesses reach many different
audiences: customers, vendors, allied service providers,
peers and trade associations, or competitors.
Businesses seek to stand out in the eyes of these audiences as leaders, as prudent, future-oriented managers and value-added
suppliers, as environmentally responsible stewards and as good corporate
citizens. The recognition that accompanies a green power purchase can
play an important role in helping businesses stand out.
MeGPC exists to facilitate the use of green power in Maine.
We educate, facilitate and congratulate Maine's green power leaders.
The following resources will deepen your understanding of what green power is,
who is buying it, and why they have chosen to do so. More resources will
be added regularly - feel free to visit often.
Spotlight on Businesses
Maine's businesses are going green.
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MeGPC Services and Publications
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Maine Green Power Connection "Improve the Air You Breathe"
- A basic handout on green power and the Maine Green Power Connection.
Feb 2005. [PDF]
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Maine Green Power Connection "Green Electricity, Pink Lungs"
- A handout on green power for use and distribution by health care
professionals. Call for quantities and/or for MeGPC's booth
for your events. May 2004 [PDF]
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Maine Green Power Menu - A comprehensive listing of
all green power products available in Maine, arrayed for easy
comparison. Link to further information and easy purchase.
Call MeGPC with any questions.
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Green Power Listing - Every Maine organization that
buys green power deserves to be noticed. MeGPC lists every
organization that purchases green power, and drives web traffic
to that listing via events, earned media and paid advertising.
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Notable Articles and References
Case Study: Interface: Using Green Tags to
Differentiate Products - A 1-page summary of the steps Interface
Fabrics (Guilford, ME) has taken to differentiate itself in
competitive markets using green power. 2003. [PDF]
CERES/ Investor Responsibility Research Center Corporate
Governance and Climate Change. This study explores steps taken by
20 of the planet's largest greenhouse gas emitters to address investor
concern about future earnings performance in the face of global warming.
June 2003. [PDF]
EPA Green Power Partnership A Guide to Buying and Benefiting from Green
Power.
World Resources Institute - Corporate Guide
to Green Power Markets Installment #1: Business Case, Challenges and
Steps Forward. First of 5 white papers on different aspects of green
power for corporate purchasers. September 2002. [PDF] Other
installments available at http://www.thegreenpowergroup.org/publications.html
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Links of Interest to Businesses
EPA Green Power Partnership -U. S. Environmental
Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership recognizes businesses and
other organizations that commit to making significant green power purchases.
Technical assistance, publications, national recognition and other
assistance available. www.epa.gov/greenpower
Green-e /Center for Resource Solutions -
The Green-e renewable energy certification program is increasingly
recognized as the mark of third-party approval for green power purchases.
Products are posted and purchasers recognized at www.Green-e.org.
See http://www.green-e.org/your_e_choices/switched.html
for sketches of corporate purchases.
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Maine STEP-UP program - Administered
by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, this voluntary
program recognizes companies that go above and beyond environmental
compliance. Green power can be an element in Maine businesses'
STEP-UP agreements.
http://www.maine.gov/dep/oc/stepup/index.htm
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Maine Businesses for Social Responsibility (MeBSR) -
MeBSR is Maine's membership organization for businesses
concerned about the "triple bottom line"
World Resources Institute's Green Power Development Group -
By working with corporations like GE, Alcoa, DuPont and Maine's
own Interface Fabrics, this project has facilitated the purchase of over
97 MW of green power since September 2002. See thumbnails of corporate
purchases at http://business.wri.org/project_content_text.cfm?ContentID=2059.
General information on corporate green power purchasing at:
www.thegreenpowergroup.org
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