GOING GREEN
Our Part

At Sokolis Group we are not a company that just talks the talk but we walk the walk for everything we do. As a fuel management company we are always aware of the price of energy but it wasn't until October 2007 that we really started to fully understand the impact that all of us have on the environment. Call it naive, call it head buried in the sand, but at the end of the day we weren't doing our fair share for planet Earth. This is when we started project "GLEN" (Green, Leadership, Emission, Neutral) The goals of the project is to reduce as much carbon footprint as we can and help promote organizations that want a better planet Earth. Below are a few things that we have done as well as continued incentives. For individuals or some businesses these may seem like common sense and for the most part they are.

• We have purchased carbon offsets to eliminate our entire company's yearly carbon footprint. if you want to do the same go to www.carbonfund.org. 

• Subscribed to www.41pounds.org. This non profit company helps eliminate junk mail. Their name 41 pounds is the amount of junk mail everyone of us receives each year. We are saving well more than several hundred pounds a year, which reduces the amount of trees it takes to print, energy it takes to make and deliver and landfill space.

• Programmable thermostat set at 66ºF in the winter and 77ºF in the summer. When we are not in the building and depending on the season the temperature is adjusted accordingly.

• Scheduling employees to telecommute from home

• Recycle programs for paper, plastic and glass

• Converted 60% of our copy paper to 100% recycled copy paper. Resulting in 100% fewer trees used, 43% less energy used, 36% few greenhouse gas emissions, 49% less water used.

• Controllable lighting by zone area

• Double side printing on paper when possible

• Installed compact fluorescent light bulbs 

• Purchased Energy Star office equipment

• Power management on our computers and monitors

• Reduced both airline and car travel for meetings have combined trips. Instead we are using conference calls when appropriate

• Invoice customers electronically

• Low flow toilets

• Increased vegetation throughout the office

• Environmentally friendly cleaning supplies

• Request paperless remittance & payment by all vendors

• Became affiliate of EPS (Environmental Protection Agency) SmartWay program.

The Sokolis Group certainly does not have "Being Green" down as well as our Fuel Management but its a big step in the right direction.

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Call Sokolis Group today at 267-482-6155 or email us at sales@sokolisgroup.com.