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UnCommon
Sense: Business Leadership for a Sustainable Future
The UnCommon
Sense program
equips businesses to make desired changes in their operations and
empowers them to become sustainability leaders in their communities and
industry sectors.
To graduate from UnCommon Sense,
each business is required to complete assignments from each module and
prepare a final presentation and written report that summarizes their
actions and operational improvements. Businesses achieve points for
completing these action items, and a minimum number of points are
required to graduate. Examples of the action items include conducting
waste stream audits and measuring waste stream, baseline energy and
water audits and use tracking, calculating CAFÉ measure and
conducting a greenhouse gas inventory.
Businesses are required to document and quantify all action and
operational improvements made. Upon completing the course, they compile
all documentation and action items and present to the group. This
information comes in many forms: spreadsheets and tracking matrices,
graphs, work plans, surveys, communications strategies, mission/vision
statements, resource lists, job descriptions, photographs, policies,
marketing materials. The intent of this reporting is to actually
quantify what a business was able to achieve over the two-year period.
Each graduating class is profiled in an UnCommon Sense
annual report highlighting their accomplishments and positive changes
over the two-year course. This report will detail each
business’
individual accomplishment and how the participants’
collective
efforts are improving the region’s economy, communities and
environment.
For info on cost and participant expectations
for this two-year, leadership program, contact Heather Higinbotham
at heatherh@yellowstonebusiness.org
or (406) 600-6617. Click
here for an application.
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