Greening Corporate Grounds

What is the Greening Corporate Grounds Program? The Benefits of Greening Requirements Levels and Projects Who Should I Contact?

Join Credit Valley Conservation and Evergreen in this exciting new program that allows corporations, businesses and institutions to contribute to environmentally positive action while enhancing their landscape.

Many businesses and institutions have the opportunity to create habitat and provide other environmental benefits while improving aesthetics on their grounds. Reduce costs and bring renewed life to your property through Greening Corporate Grounds.

An Innovative Program

This new initiative launched by Credit Valley Conservation and Evergreen will help corporations, businesses, institutions and places of worship in Mississauga and Brampton to green their corporate and institutional lands. Whether your grounds are large or small, paved, lawn or partly natural, you can get involved!

Evergreen and Credit Valley Conservation are here to help!

Our ecological experts will work with participants on your grounds. Plus, we’ll provide related educational resources such as workshops, seminars and fact sheets.

Support includes:

• Site concept plan
• Technical advice to your landscape consultants or in-house personnel
• Maintenance guidelines
• Assistance with planting and maintenance events
• Workshops, presentations and educational resources
• Program recognition: sign, web listings and eligibility for awards

We can also recommend resources for sustainable practices in everyday operations in your organization.

The Benefits of Greening

Benefits to Your Business or Corporation

• Visibly demonstrate commitment to Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility
• Be a leader in corporate environmental practices in the outdoor environment
• Complement your existing corporate environmental initiatives

Benefits to Managers

• Save on long-term landscape maintenance and water bills by investing in green practices
• Participate in opportunities for education and networking on outdoor greening initiatives
• Comply with, even surpass, government regulations
• Contribute to your team building initiatives, and maintain good employee and community relations

Benefits to Staff

• Enhance your workplace environment
• Join an exciting movement at your workplace
• Contribute to the health of the wider community

Requirements

Participants must demonstrate a commitment to improving the natural health of their grounds by adopting environmental landscaping practices over time.

Minimum requirements

• Complete one project in the Land or Water category
• Demonstrate commitment to working towards Jade level

Program participants will contribute

• Staff and management support to work with program personnel
• Program fees
• Purchase of plants and materials
• Implementation and maintenance
• If interested, host staff or community volunteer events

This new program will evolve with input and feedback from initial participants.

Levels and Projects

The Greening Corporate Grounds (GCG) Program will help your business or organization adopt environmental landscaping practices and enhance the natural health and beauty of your grounds over time. The program provides a list of possible projects and benchmarks to achieve increasingly greener grounds at three levels: Turquoise, Jade and Emerald.

Find out more about the various levels and projects see our Levels Brochure and our detailed Program Checklist and Benchmarks.

Who do I contact?

To participate in this program or for more information, please contact:

Kim Sellers
Mississauga Program Manager, Evergreen
phone: 416-596-1495 x240 mobile: 416-302-9234
email: ksellers@evergreen.ca
evergreen.ca

Deborah Kenley
Green Corporate Grounds Program Coordinator, Credit Valley Conservation
phone: 905-670-1615 x439
email: dkenley@creditvalleyca.ca
creditvalleyca.ca

Support for this initiative is provided by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.