Sunborne’s partnership with Green Plants For Green Buildings
Sunborne believes so strongly in the work of Green Plants for Green Buildings that we are partnering with them in the ‘Just a Buck’ campaign. The campaign that we have launched is totally voluntary and involves customers giving the okay to Sunborne to add a $1 charge to their invoices. Again it is totally voluntary and we will not add the charge unless the customer tells us to do it. At the end of the month we will tally up the charges and Sunborne will donate all of the money, including a matching donation from Sunborne, to GPGB.
For those of you unfamiliar with GPGB, it is a non-profit organization whose sole mission is to promote the use of live plants indoors. It represents Interiorscapers, Nurseries, Garden Centers, and anyone else – like you – whose livelihood revolves around indoor plants and related products.
Examples of your GPGB dollars at work:
Project Carbon is an ongoing research initiative developed by GPGB and funded by NFF (National Foliage Foundation). It involves the quantitative measurement of how much Carbon is removed by plants inside buildings. This promising research, being done by the University of Georgia, should prove that plants do in fact help reduce the carbon footprint of buildings – a huge plus for us in the ‘Green’ world we live in!
LEED Points for Plants is another GPGB initiative, co-funded by the IIC (Interior Industry Coalition), that involves the development of a Pilot Program for LEED credit, based on the use of plants indoors. If the submittal is successful, plants would then be eligible for LEED credits – another huge accomplishment for us in the specifier and building industries.
For more information on GPGB please visit our web site at www.gpgb.org. We hope you agree that GPGB’s ‘live plants are an integral part of the Indoor Environment!’ message is a cause worth supporting!
