SBI Presents Seal of Sustainability to BAE Systems and Kleinpeter Farms Dairy
SBI Presents Seal of Sustainability to BAE Systems and Kleinpeter Farms Dairy
Ceremony at
US Capitol Underscores Commitment of Congress & Private Industry to
Sustainability
Issued by the Sustainable Business Institute, the
Seal of Sustainability is a nationally recognized icon of business
sustainability. It is awarded to companies that have demonstrated continuous
commitment to sustainable practices. This trusted icon helps the public
identify businesses that promote sustainability so consumers can make educated
decisions about companies with whom they want to do business.
“Policymakers,
businesses and consumers are working hard to find new ways to balance economic
growth and prosperity with long-term sustainability,” said Jessica Fullmer,
Founder of the Sustainable Business Institute. “This year’s Seal of Sustainability award recipients are using
innovation and creativity to truly bring about change in helping preserve and
restore our planet’s natural resources.
2010 Seal of Sustainability Award Recipients
The collective attributes and requirements of this
award allow a broad range of companies to be recognized and rewarded for their
ongoing commitment to sustainable business practices. Each
company follows a different roadmap to sustainability, and is evaluated based
on a 12-point system within three pillars: economy, society and environment. Each application is reviewed by the
independent nonprofit National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (P2), the
largest nonprofit membership organization in
BAE Systems
BAE Systems is a
global defense, security, and aerospace company with a proud heritage of
innovation, state of the art engineering and technical excellence. This same ingenuity is now resulting in the
following exemplary sustainability accomplishments at the company’s
- Implemented
the Utility Cost Takeout (UCT) strategy in response to rising energy
costs. This technique involves an audit of individual rooms in order to
determine how energy use, and thereby utility costs, can be cut. Thus far,
the company has lowered its overall utility consumption by 38%.
- Joined
PowerPay! NY, a demand response program that is part of new smart grid
technology. Through the program, BAE Systems is paid by a third party
provider for reducing energy consumption during peak electricity demand
periods. One example of an energy consumption reduction effort during peak
demand is low level lighting during lunchtime on certain floors of the
company’s buildings.
- Adopted
a recycling program in 2006, through which the company encourages
employees to recycle and reduce solid waste. Recycling bins and
informative posters were placed throughout the Greenlawn, NY campus, and
Brown Bag Lunch Training Sessions were held in order to share recycling
knowledge with employees. Because of this program, solid waste was reduced
from 450 to 335 tons per year.
- Created
a water conservation program in order to decrease water usage and curtail
water costs. The program, started at the Greenlawn, NY campus but later
transferred to other sites after significant savings were seen, includes
the installation and implementation of closed loop cooling systems, water
saving toilets, aerators and shower heads, the metering of
cooling/evaporative towers and smart irrigation systems. Through this
initiative, BAE Systems has saved more than 175,582,142 gallons of water,
as well as over $1 million in costs.
- Installed
three alternative/renewable energy systems in a 45,000 square foot
building on the Greenlawn, NY campus. These systems include a solar water
heating system, a small hybrid solar wind turbine, and a photo-voltaic
array.
Kleinpeter Dairy
If you ask Jeff Kleinpeter
of Kleinpeter Farms Dairy what makes their business extraordinary he’ll tell
you it’s their passion for what they do.
Quite simply, they love
providing the safest and very best quality products they can. The company is now applying that same passion
to implementing award winning, innovative pollution prevention programs
including:
- A
company-wide recycling program in order to separate recyclable from
non-recyclable waste; additionally, produced and paid for radio and
television commercials to promote recycling in Baton Rouge, as well as
started a used light bulb and fluorescent light ballast recycling program
for the farm itself and for its employees.
- A
Wastewater Treatment and Solids Recapture System before expanding into the
ice cream business; the system allows Kleinpeter Farms to recycle solid
waste from the ice cream making process and use it for crop fertilizer,
greatly minimizing the waste that leaves the treatment facility.
- An
Ammonia Refrigeration Heat Recapture System in order to use waste heat to
more efficiently increase the temperature of city supply water; this in
turn has lowered electric energy consumption and thereby fossil fuel
dependency.
About SBI
Founded in 1995, the Sustainable Business Institute
(SBI) is a nonpartisan 501c(3) nonprofit organization devoted to helping businesses
make steady progress on their roadmap to sustainability. The SBI does this by
working as a catalyst on behalf of the public to bring together business
leaders and their organizations to initiate, implement and communicate
worldwide sustainable business practices.
Issued by the SBI, the Seal of Sustainability™ is a nationally
recognized icon of business sustainability.
It is awarded to businesses that have demonstrated continuous commitment
to sustainable business practices in the areas of economy, society and
environment. For more information on SBI
and the Seal of Sustainability, go to www.SustainableBusiness.org.
Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their
respective owners.
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Media Contacts:
Pam Ferguson
Sustainable Business Institute
Tel: +1 408-358-7225
Email: pam@marketingmindspr.com
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