Some of these possibilities may be directly under your control if you design and/or manufacture the products.  Other opportunities may be indirect, as you use your influence encourage suppliers to provide environmentally friendly products and packaging or devise ways to encourage your customers to recycle your products after use.

Carbon and other green house gas (GHG) reduction possibilities may be -

• directly under your control if you design and or manufacture the products;
• through persuasion of suppliers to provide environmentally friendlier products and packaging;
• through offering customers ways to recycle your products after use;
• through education of customers about best/energy conserving use of products;
• letting customers know of your green operations can indirectly inspire reduced CO2 emissions downstream of your service.

Calculate Carbon:    Web sites can guide you through steps in analyzing the carbon life cycle footprint involved in your organization’s products and services.

Other Resources:

The Climate Conservancy  - Stanford-based nonprofit working with companies to standardize, assess and label products with life cycle green house gas emissions.

Carbonfund.org  supports education, renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation projects globally that reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the threat of climate change.