Partner with the Six-Month Energy Diet for Business

Partner with us to help your small- and medium-size business clients or members use the Six-Month Energy Diet for Business to lower their carbon footprint. Led by expert coaches, using proven methodologies, this program can save your clients money and reduce their carbon footprint — while helping you build brand identity and market share.

How it Works

• You promote the Six-Month Energy Diet for Business to your small- and medium-size business clients or members
• We deliver the course in six monthly classes and coaching sessions to up to 10 businesses per course
• You help slow global warming, build your brand identity, receive a discount on the course, and share a portion of of the revenues

The participating businesses:

• reduce their energy use
• lower their operating costs
• improve their productivity, morale, and customer relations
• and adapt to changing business conditions.

Fully 83 percent of Americans now say global warming is a "serious" problem, up from 70 percent in 2004.Seventy-five percent recognize that their own behavior can help to reduce global warming, and 81 percent believe it is their responsibility to do so.

What's In It for You?

Promoting this program to your small- and medium-size business clients:

• Makes you part of the solution: It will take all of us to stop climate change.

• Differentiates your company from your competitors: Give your customers another reason you are different from your competitors.
• Improves your image: Your clients will see that you care.
• Creates brand identity and growth opportunities: Your clients will be delighted that you are supporting the community and will reward you with loyalty and word-of-mouth marketing. You can also market your involvement in the program to new potential clients.
• Ensures you a 50% discount: You receive a 50% discount on the course so that you can lower your carbon footprint, too.
• Earns you revenue: You will receive a portion of the course revenues
• Creates satisfied clients: Your clients will find money-saving opportunities and improve their community image:

Beam Wine Estates saved $42,000/yr (9-month payback with rebates from PG&E) by replacing lighting fixtures and installing occupancy sensors.

Osmosis Day Spa & Sanctuary saved $6540/yr by installing a water filtration system and eliminating most bottled water.

Overview of the Six-Month Energy Diet for Business

This class-plus-coaching program provides the information, tools and support to turn carbon reduction goals into achievements — while saving money. Participants:

• Attend six monthly class sessions with up to 10 businesses, plus get coached between classes during conference calls and individual sessions
• Clarify their company's commitment to the environment and climate change
• Calculate their business' carbon footprint
• Identify their highest return-on-investment energy-reduction projects for energy, transportation, water, and solid waste
• Learn about rebates, tax credits, grants, and free services to accelerate payback
• Implement their chosen projects with guidance and support
• Implement a simple system for monitoring carbon-reduction progress
• Adopt proven implementation strategies to ensure carbon-reduction efforts succeed

This program is designed for small- and medium-size businesses such as:

• office/retail • light manufacturing • restaurant/foodservice
• hospitality • property management • food processing

What's Involved for You

Get the word out: We work with you to promote the Six-Month Energy Diet for Business to your clients or members.

We help: We provide sample website text and email messages that you can use. And we'll work with your graphic artist to create point of sale displays, newsletters and more. We also conduct a training conference call to educate your employees on the program. We provide a website and personnel to answer questions.

We take care of registration.

We are not only sustainability experts but also experienced teachers and business consultants.

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