Yellowstone Business Partnership Advancing Sustainable Enterprise

UNCOMMON SENSE


Program Information

Current Class Participants

Program Leadership Team

Program Application

Program Graduates

2007 Annual Sustainability Report

2009 Annual Sustainability Report - pdf

Program Resources for Participants

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UnCommon Sense: Business Leadership for a Sustainable Future


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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 Burdette at hburdette@ yellowstonebusiness.org or (406) 838-2321. Click here for an application.

UnCommon Sense Sponsors:

We would like to extend a special thanks to the following sponsors.
EIRMC Montana DEQ
Idaho Small Business Logo New Belgium Brewery


  


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