ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP IS GOOD BUSINESS

Our region is fortunate to have a strong and diverse economy. Manufacturing, service, banking, hospitality, health care, entertainment, high-tech, land development and many other types of businesses are well represented. While several Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in the region, thousands of businesses of all sizes operate in the Greater Charlotte area, and every business can play a role in helping to maintain a sustainable environment for quality of life. Many of the ways to be environmentally-friendly can actually save businesses money, too.

This website:

• Identifies areas where businesses can prevent waste, recycle, buy recycled supplies and materials and use less energy
• Provides examples of what businesses of all sizes around the country are doing to to help preserve the environment
• Has online tools to measure your environmental friendliness and suggestions to improve it
• Links to programs in which your business can participate
• Free SEQL-NET accounts that let you track environmental friendliness and post messages and events to this website

Many of the things that businesses -- large and small -- can do are easy to do, inexpensive or may even save your business money, and have an immediate impact on our region.

The business of our region is business. The strong and diverse economy here has fueled the growth that threatens our quality of life. SEQL is about finding win-win situations that allow the region to continue to grow in a smart, environmentally-friendly ways.