I am very excited about our hat-trick here are the details on how you can get involved in making a difference.

For those of you that are sport-challenged like I am, a hat-trick is a hockey term that means scoring three goals in one game. Green and Green has committed to doing a hat-trick this year as part of our commitment to making a difference.

It’s free to do a hat-trick and it’s as simple as choosing items from a menu. A hat-trick has three parts:

1. Selecting an imaginative project that has a high impact in poor countries. Like a merry go round that generates electricity for a school as the village children play. Like a solar stove for Dakar that means women don’t have to risk their lives to gather fire wood.

2. Selecting a way to save the money for your project through environmental savings in your company. Like using recycled paper, double siding, extending page margins. Or making changes to how your firm uses power. Or any of 8 other money-saving environmental ideas.

3. Selecting a way to spread the word so that others will do a hat-trick. One school is doing a play about their hat-trick. One association is telling their contacts through Linkedin and Facebook.

I met with Kathy Sayers, Hat-trick’s Executive Director, and decided on Green and Green’s first hat-trick. We looked through 6 ideas and I decided on Sleeping Children around the World. SCAW provides a child in one of 32 countries with a bed kit: a mattress, sheets, a blanket, a pillow, mosquito netting, clothes, a towel and school supplies.

Bed In A Box

Then we kicked around environmental savings ideas for our hat-trick. We’ve decided to pay for “our bedroom in a box” by asking our clients to receive invoices electronically instead of by mail.

We’re telling others about our hat-trick in our newsletters and this blog to spread the word that there is something we can do that will make a difference.

The whole process took about 20 minutes.

Every quarter, we’ll do a new hat-trick and find a new way to make Green and Green even greener.

I first met Kathy at a business networking meeting and when I heard what she was doing, I knew we wanted to be part of it. The spark for hat-trick came when she read the story about the merry go round that generated electricity. “I could imagine what a community-building impact that would have. And when I read that 10 minutes of kids playing could provide hours of lighting for a school, I knew I had to figure out a way to let people know about these kinds of projects.”

Once she decided to combine doing good with saving the environment, Hat-trick was born.

She spent several months researching projects and charities that were innovative, high impact, low cost and solid. And then she researched ways to save environmentally.

She’s made this as simple as selecting from a menu. Select you project from column a. Select your environmental savings from column b. Select a way to spread the word from column c.

Hat-trick’s website will be completed in mid-December. In the meantime, contact Kathy at 604-736-1287.

Looking forward to our Hat-trick.

Thanksgiving is the time to pause to consider what we’re thankful for. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I’ve been looking for a way to give back for the blessings we all share. I also wanted Green & Green to be part of the solution in dealing with the consequences of global warming. That’s why we’re delighted that we’ve found a way to give back and help the environment.

Green & Green’s Environmental and Social Responsibility Programs

Green & Green only uses specially designed recycled, biodegradable cellophane. We have this custom made to ensure a beautifully wrapped gift and less impact to the environment.

We have a comprehensive in-office recycling program – everything that can be recycled is recycled.

We support local charities through the Rotary Club of Vancouver. We are passionate about the Rotary Annual Bike-A-Thon which raises funds for the hearing impaired.

We have a commitment to supplying donations to a variety of charities for door prizes and auctions.

We have partnered with Tradeworks Custom Products, a social venture helping women in the Downtown Eastside.

Hat Trick at Green & Green

When I heard about a new company called Hat trick at a business networking meeting, I knew I’d found the perfect way to show we care.  

Hat trick means three goals by one player in a hockey game. We’re doing a hat trick with our new Green & Green corporate giving project. Here’s how we’ll score our three goals. 

First goal: We’ve selected a high impact project for the developing world, Sleeping Children Around the World. SCAW provides a child in one of 32 countries with a bed kit: a mattress, sheets, a blanket, a pillow, mosquito netting, clothes, a towel and school supplies

Second goal: We’re paying for “our bedroom in a box” entirely through environmental savings at Green & Green.

Third goal: We’re telling others about our hat trick to spread the word that there is something we can do about the important issues in the world.

To achieve these goals we ask for our customer’s support. If you agree to receive our invoices by email instead of by regular mail, we’ll put every dime we save on postage and processing toward our hat trick.

Every quarter of the year, we commit to funding a new hat trick by searching for new ways to make Green & Green more environmentally efficient.  

For our first hat trick, we need your help. If you agree to receive our invoices by email instead of by snail mail, we’ll put every dime we save on postage and processing toward our hat trick.

Every quarter we’ll commit to funding a new hat trick by searching for new ways to make Green & Green more environmentally efficient.