The team mentality works well for your "Green Team" because sustainability is actually an inclusive effort that makes "Going Green" everyone's task. Providing sustainability leaders within company branches uses existing skills and established relationships. No one knows your company like someone who has worked inside for years. Seek out people with communication skills and leaders who know how to lead by example as your best CSO candidates. In-House Training of Branch CSOs Why wait for rules and mandates to pile up as managers struggle with increased compliance issues? The CSO Corporate Training program will provide a three-day, in-house training for any corporation that will allow for live classes, and simulcast video training of your CSO appointees. The video will be made available for all future CSO candidates as your company grows or staff changes. The cost of this training is a fraction of hiring outside firms to take your company Green and sustainable. Sometimes, the obvious solution is the best solution. Brining in "Hired Guns" will not replace the ready knowledge that can be found in management staff who understand the core elements of the company. What is lacking for the "appointed Green officer" is the knowledge and pattern required to make your company into a sustainable operation. This something that can be learned and provided by in-house personnel. The additional support of The Sustainable Forum, our nationwide team, and easy-to-access software makes "Going Green" an affordable task that also reduces the ongoing costs of the company. This is not rocket science, but neither is it the realm of amateurs. The power of the CSO training course is pure empowerment, and as long as their is a clear chain of communications; the process is extremely easy. Nearly every company has already implemented a few sustainable practices, but take the piecemeal approach to the task. In the end, the project seems like a good effort that has no certain destination. Establishing a company-wide project starts best with getting the team ready, and a pilot project of at least one facility. The class training concludes with the development of a thorough sustainability plan that can be adapted in due course to the other facilities. The value of going from token efforts to a developed sustainability plan is enormous. Hiring an outside firm to accomplish this task is easily in the tens of thousands, if not more. The base cost for the CSO training in a corporate program is $10,000 which includes the guidance and support to provide a tailored sustainability report for the company. We believe that "Green is Progressive," and it will take three to five years to develop a Green and sustainable operation in many cases. In the first year, the "low hanging fruit" allows for the program to find a good start. Each year afterward, the new ideas become a part of the daily operation. Adopting the "Lean and Green" approach, the costs are metered into the system while the savings are realized. Going Green should have an ROI of about 12-24 month using our program, and will lower operational costs while enlarging the company's market share. In the end, Going Green is a profitable decision on many levels.