Small and Medium-sized Business Environmental Outreach
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) play a vital role in our economy and possess the potential to generate significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. To increase resiliency and address climate change, it’s crucial for SMBs to be more sustainable.
Regardless of your environmental objectives, engaging with SMBs is a critical aspect of achieving them. Our expert outreach team can assist you in reaching SMBs and help you realize rapid, measurable outcomes.
Let us help you design a custom, comprehensive outreach plan that helps you meet your environmental goals. Contact us today!
Electrification Assistance Outreach
In recent years, the focus on electrification of homes and businesses in California has increased. Now that there are more resources available, the availability of renewable energy is growing, and the state is moving towards tougher regulations on natural gas, it makes sense to electrify homes and businesses sooner rather than later. For these reasons, the Federal Government, the State of California, and local municipalities are all starting to incentivize the electrification of homes and commercial buildings. Environmental Innovations helps businesses and homeowners navigate these incentives and the various contractors needed for a project. We do the math for our clients to show them how much they can save by electrifying their home or business, and connect them with programs that offer 0% interest, on-bill financing, and low interest government backed loans to help offset the costs.
Municipalities who are looking for a team to promote electrification outreach to home and commercial building owners can find that team in EI. Our outreach teams know how to work with and motivate property owners, and can leverage our Green Business connections to target underserved, multilingual communities. Contact us today to find out more.
Community-Based Social Marketing Approach
EI follows the five community-based social marketing (CBSM) steps: selecting behaviors, identifying barriers, developing strategies, conducting pilots, and broad scale implementation. We prefer to take a microscale approach initially, test it, tweak it, and where necessary, scrap it and start over. Any print or digital material is initially targeted to a small subset to determine which approaches work. Once it is determined that we have landed on a replicable working strategy, it will be implemented on a broad scale.
By implementing pilot programs to small groups of targeted community or business sectors, we are able to determine the quickest, most cost effective solution that eliminates both the actual and perceived barriers for local businesses. This model helps us solve problems effectively without spending too much time or money on approaches that do not work. We incorporate this approach into program design and planning. If your municipality is in the design phase of a sustainability initiative, reach out to us to incorporate CBSM elements.
SB 1383: Food Waste and Food Recovery Compliance
We specialize in guiding municipalities through the intricacies of SB 1383, which mandates that municipalities reduce greenhouse gas emissions by decreasing organic waste sent to landfills by 75% and a 20% increase in the diversion of edible food by 2025. Our team of experts will collaborate with you to develop a customized plan tailored to your business community’s specific needs, and will ensure that local food banks, waste haulers, solid waste and food facilities align with SB 1383 guidelines. We work with a range of software platforms to document diversions, enabling you to fulfill your reporting obligations.
Contact us today to find out more about how we can help you with SB 1383 and Edible Food Recovery compliance.
Regulatory compliance and business outreach
Specializing in business assistance and outreach, Environmental Innovations helps jurisdictions that do not have the in-house capacity to conduct voluntary outreach, education, and regulatory enforcement. We currently coordinate regulatory industrial environmental compliance for municipalities, including all aspects of the fats, oil and grease (FOG) program for restaurants, inspection and monitoring services for light, categorical and significant industrial users, and enforcement of polystyrene bans, mandatory recycling, and compost laws.
We start by implementing an educational “soft enforcement” approach, coupled with incentives for businesses to voluntarily comply with regulatory compliance. This approach allows us to assist the businesses in a friendly, non threatening way, encouraging businesses to come into compliance smoothly. Once these paths have been exhausted, we then switch to regulatory enforcement. We currently provide this assistance to the Cities of Scotts Valley, Capitola, and Marina.
Contact us today to find out more about how we can help you with Compliance Assistance in your jurisdiction.