6. Environment >
6.6 Green Teams
Greening Our Workplace
Each of Ben & Jerry’s Company sites (Waterbury, St. Albans, South Burlington) has a Green Team comprised of employees interested in environmental issues. These employee-led teams come up with projects, activities and events tha
t highlight relevant environmental issues within the Company and beyond.
In 2006, Company Green Teams initiated the following projects to support community and employee environmental awareness:
- Earth Day celebrations with daily environmental tips
- Corporate Sponsor for “Vermont Green Up Day” in which employees participated in road clean-up projects near their facility
- Arbor Day celebration — young spruce tree give-away to employees
- “Pedal for Progress” — a nonprofit that collects bikes and donates them to underprivileged people throughout the world who need bikes to get to jobs, attend school or get produce to market
- Teamed with the Solid Waste District for the Annual community Christmas tree mulching event that included food shelf donations
- “Environmental Tidbits” — regular e-mail topics focused on environmental issues that employees may find interesting
- Donation of T-8 Bulbs to a local school after the site upgraded their energy efficient lights
- Worm composting workshop for employees and local residents