Welcome to the Green Choices Toolkit™ webpage. Choices in the day to- day work of organizations provide a wide range of opportunities to benefit, protect and sustain the environment and society, as well as stakeholders. The Green Choices Toolkit can help an organization incorporate environmental and social responsibility criteria into daily decisions about materials, products, components, and equipment that are used, designed, specified, or purchased. The Toolkit is appropriate for anyone who buys, specifies, or designs products, materials, components, and equipment.
The Green Choices Toolkit is modeled after Aveda’s successful Materials Use Toolkit and Norm Thomson Outfitter’s ground breaking Sustainability Toolkit, both developed in conjunction with Brown and Wilmanns Environmental, LLC.
Using our extensive material and product databases we can create a  Green Choices Toolkit that is “custom-fitted” to your company. Your Toolkit will feature specific Scorecards that can provide numerical ratings from a wide variety of materials. These range from wood and paper to glass and ceramics to metals and plastics. The ratings are based on environmental and social criteria developed to reflect a broad perspective on socially responsibility. A Toolkit can also be constructed that uses criteria developed to reflect you company’s unique perspective on environmental and social issues. The ratings scale is a guide to therelative environmental performance of the rated materials. Complementing each Scorecard is an Issues page that outlines the good and bad aspects of environmental and social performance. This is useful for understanding the specific concerns and benefits associated with different materials.
Your Green Choices Toolkit can also include a Resources section that provides a broad range of weblinks complementing the Scorecards and Issues pages, a Supplier/Vendor Questionnaire, and additional detailed information regarding agriculture and forestry practices, metals and mineral mining, and oil and chemical production. With each Toolkit a list of acronyms and a glossary of terms that explains critical concepts for readers are included.
Typical Contents
Guide to Use
How to use the Scorecards
Scorecard Criteria
Environmental and Social Issues
Simple Materials
Glass, Ceramics and Minerals
Metals
Office and Printing Paper
Plastics
Textiles
Wood and Non-wood Fiber Products
Complex Materials
Appliances
Batteries
Flooring
Lighting
Plumbing and Plumbing Fixtures
Surface Finishes, Paints, Coatings and Caulk
Electronics
Textile Dyeing and Finishing
Improving Purchasing
Web Resources for Researching Materials
Sample Vendor Questionnaire
Shipping and Freight Considerations
An in-depth look at
Agricultural and Forestry Products
Metals, Minerals and Earth-Based Products Petroleum-Based Products
Appendix
Acronyms
Glossary of Terms
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The Green Choices Toolkit is available in a format that is customized to include your company logo and images and include a company-specific introduction. Further customization can be done to reflect company-specific evaluation criteria and additional Scorecards, Issues pages and resources in the Scorecard ratings. Please contact us to discuss your needs.
While the Green Choices Toolkit is intended to be a stand-alone product, its value is enhanced with training for users. We provide on-site half-day training in working with the toolkit to maximize its effectiveness. The training is appropriate for anyone who buys, specifies, or designs products, materials, components, and equipment.
For further information, please email info@bw-environmental.com or call (805) 898-0980.
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