Monday, October 6, 2008

Green Consulting Movement

As a consulting firm, the greatest impact that we could ever have on the environment is on the work that we do for our clients. I am happy to say that we have been assisting numerous companies with an environmentally responsible agenda.

As a consulting firm that specializes in franchise development, Francorp creates the foundation for companies to expand throughout the US and even worldwide. Through our 13 international offices, we are working with numerous companies that are developing concepts that meet the environmental challenges that we have ahead of ourselves worldwide.

Some of these GREEN concepts in the US are Fisher Recycling - http://www.fisherrecycling.com/ , SynLawn - http://www.synlawn.com/ and a number solar companies that choose to be kept underwraps until they officially launch.

In addition to having the pleasure of working with socially responsible companies through our franchise development work, we also have been operating in a more environmentally friendly way oursleves. Many of our staff members now carpool to the office, work at home, some even take public transportation from the city out to our suburban location, and others have even purchased fuel efficient cars in order to be operating conservationists. We have also recently switched to recycled paper cups for office usage when a glass cannot be used. Furthermore, we discourage usage of bottled water and encourage filtered water provided to our staff. In addition, we purchased renewable bamboo tables for our lobby and refinished our Eames office chairs throughout our office instead of purchasing new chairs which prevented the filling of a land fill. We also used paint free of VOC's and replaced our light fixtures with high efficiency fixtures, which should save a great deal of energy. Our next addition will be new HVAC units that will further increase effeciency.

The beauty of these new GREEN initiatives is that they also offer a financial incentive now adays. Why not go green like Francorp? The price is right!

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