Green Corporate Network

TESCO is UK’s biggie with 250,000 employees and 1779 retail stores. Obviously, it’s carbon footprint is huge. It has realized the worth of “Going Green” and proclaim their “Green Corporate Mission” in no uncertain terms:

We work with our customers, staff and suppliers to make sustainable choices and reduce our impact on the environment.

Our priorities:

Reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions

Reducing, reusing and recycling waste

Making our products more sustainable

Via Tesco’s Website

They have come out with their Annual sustainability report. You can download it here

Putting the Energy of your Money in the Direction of your Values

A simple quote with profound implications. This investment company based in UK has captured the essence of any business with a “Green Mission” . Companies and organizations are in the business to make money. They reflect the pulse of the society that we live in. As the society incorporates “Green Values” these companies will “outsmart” themselves and turn “Green”. So, the power of “Green” lies in you.

At “Green Corporate Network” , we take a pledge to seek out and highlight every company in this world who has taken a pledge to “Go Green” as reflected in their corporate mission. We will do this one at a time. Come , support us and join our network

“Our unique role is to give customers the information they need to make more sustainable choices, and extend these from a minority to the mainstream by making green options more affordable – just as we have made other products more affordable. This is not altruism. By satisfying this growing demand, we will be rewarded with more custom and more loyalty. Tesco will grow stronger as a result."- TESCO CEO, Sir Terry Leahy

Via Tesco’s website

At Greencorporate.com, we love the idea of being simple. Simple with economy of words in defining your “Green Mission” as well.

Here is a short mission statement from a insurance company.

Naturesave offers general insurance products

Naturesave is a vehicle for sustainable development

Naturesave does this by:

putting 10% of all its personal insurance premiums into a fund (The Naturesave Trust) to benefit specific environmental and conservationist projects

offering a free environmental performance review with all its commercial clients to demonstrate ways in which a company/organisation can adopt more environmentally aware trading practices and provide practical advice and guidance towards more efficient operational activities, consumption and waste

offering financial assistance to its SME clients in the commercial and voluntary sectors to offset their carbon emissions

creating greater awareness within the market about the long term problems the insurance industry faces in ignoring the threat of pollution, environmental damage and climate change as well as encouraging companies to adopt more environmentally aware trading practices

We believe that the key to the greater commercial adoption of sustainable development lies with small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) at whom we specifically target our products. Many of our household and travel insurance clients work for such SMEs.

Wherever possible we aim to only use suppliers that support sustainable business practices.

Check their website