NRDC has a long history of working with businesses and other organizations to help reduce the environmental impacts of their operations and events, from major corporations to professional sports teams to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Out of this work comes The NRDC Greening Advisor, a guide that can help any commercial business or organization to reduce its environmental impacts. The principles outlined here can help green commercial business operations and may even cut costs by showing how your business can produce less waste, consume less paper and energy, and use resources more efficiently. Greening an organization is a colloquial way of saying that we’re working to ecologically improve an institution’s supply chain and day-to-day operations.

Use the menu at right to peruse the Greening Advisor. Start by reading about the business reasons to green your company or office, or jump right to the opportunity that interests you most, for instance:

• construction
• purchasing
• water use