UP for businesses
Here’s what UP ON GREEN accomplishes for your businesses:
1. UP ON GREEN (”UP”) simplifies basic yet measurable ‘green’ practices into one quantifiable list. View the business criteria.
2. UP provides a membership opportunity if you choose to meet the UP criteria. With the UP membership, your business can order UP identifiers to show consumers what your company is doing to be more eco-friendly.
3. If your company is embracing these practices, has joined UP, and is displaying the UP identifiers at entrances, near cash registers and in the company’s marketing materials and website, we’re confident you will experience a positive response from existing customers and will likely attract new customers.
4. When you are an UP member, consumers can also go to www.upongreen.com to search for your company’s criteria responses and pledge. Additionally, consumers are welcome to leave a comment for your company online, similar to popular online rating systems. (Note: Measures are in place to prevent abuse of the comment forum, preventing internet flaming or malicious and unfounded negative comments).
5. In the near future, UP members can have their company featured in UP’s very engaging national 'green' directory for consumers, searchable by zip code and category. At no additional charge, your company can be part of that directory with your contact information. For a fee, your company can have a dynamic and interactive listing that can include photos and more indepth information about your business' offerings and commitment to the environment.
6. A business will never lose a customer because they operate more eco-responsibly; however, with a more educated consumer, businesses will soon be at risk of losing marketshare and revenues if they aren’t embracing basic ‘green’ practices. UP ON GREEN is here to help businesses, who are doing their part, connect with customers. And UP ON GREEN is here to help inspire businesses that haven‘t yet recognized the importance of being more ‘green’ ... and GET UP ON GREEN!
7. Additionally, UP ON GREEN will become a tool to help researchers measure environmental progress in business in the United States. This information will help analyze businesses efforts in conjunction with environmental improvements. Note: At no time will a member’s confidential/personal information be sold, traded or used publicly. Please review our Privacy Policy
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UP for consumers
Here’s what UP ON GREEN accomplishes for consumers, individuals and families:
1. UP ON GREEN (”UP”) helps consumers identify companies that are operating eco-responsibly. Businesses that are UP ON GREEN commit to meeting certain ‘green’ standards in their operations to qualify for the UP membership and to be eligible to use the UP identifiers. Therefore, consumers can look for the UP identifiers located at entrances, near cash registers, on product packaging and in marketing materials of businesses to see specifically what a company is doing to be UP ON GREEN.
2. Consumers can also go to www.upongreen.com to search for a business name. If the company is an UP member, the consumer can read the company's detailed criteria responses and their Eco-Profile. If a business is not UP, the consumer can send that business an UP'vite to encourage them to get UP ON GREEN.
3. Individuals and families who are members of UP and employees of UP member companies can leave comments for business members similar to various online rating systems. (Note: Measures are in place to prevent abuse of the comment forum thus preventing malicious or unfounded negative comments).
4. In addition to the benefits of UP ON GREEN in the marketplace, UP also simplifies the basic yet measurable practices of living ‘green’ at home. Click here to view the criteria for individuals.
5. UP provides a free membership opportunity for individuals and families who choose to complete the UP criteria. With the UP membership, people can order UP identifiers for their homes and round UP stickers for their cars to let everyone know what they are doing specifically to make a difference.
6. Additionally, UP ON GREEN will become a tool to help researchers measure environmental progress in the marketplace and in homes in the United States. This information will help analyze consumers’ behavior in conjunction with environmental improvements. Note: At no time will a member’s confidential or personal information be sold, traded or used publicly. Please review our Privacy Policy.
7. In the near future, consumers can search by zip code and category in UP’s national directory to find all businesses that are UP ON GREEN.
8. Ultimately, we believe that the easier ‘green’ is for everyone, the more successful the outcome. If we can help simplify and identify ‘green’ in the marketplace, more businesses and consumers will join in and expedite change.
That’s the plan ... care to join UP?