Over at the Mother Ship, we kick off “Green Week” with a video interview with Ed Farley, VP of Marketing and Corporate Communications of Unisource:
One of the green initiatives we’ve had is the Supplier Symposium actually put on by Nancy Geisler for Unisource. This is one of the areas where we bring all our vendors in and actually hold a symposium to talk about environmental issues and how we can work together. This last one, the Lacey Act was the major part of the conversation of this symposium. ... [W]e’ve continued to improve our whole road net program with our trucks, which really coordinates all the truck deliveries, saves on a lot of fuel, and really lessons the carbon footprint. We’re working on our buildings to become LEED Certified along with a lot of idle time management with our trucks. So there’s an awful lot going on not only in the sales and marketing end at Unisource but also in the logistics end really to bring us and make us more sustainable and add to our overall green effort.
As part of “Green Week," this Friday (Earth Day) we will be announcing the winners of this year’s Third Annual Environmental Innovation Awards. So stay tuned!