The Center provides incentives to employees by using money saved or earned from recycling efforts to buy items for the breakroom. Employees are encouraged to carpool or ride their bikes to work to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution. Hatch and Parent is committed to purchasing recycled-content products, and to recycling cans, bottles, office paper, cardboard, and toner cartridges. Tim Buynak, the firm's Managing Partner, bikes to work every day. The firm promotes alternative transportation by providing bus passes, bike storage, lockers, and showers, and allowing telecommuting.
Environmental policies are good business.
If you're sensitive to environmental issues, you're going to have healthy, happy and productive people working for you. And while some of the things we're doing, like recycling, or buying recycled-content products, don't necessarily benefit us directly, we all feel we're doing something good for the planet, and that brings a certain family spirit to the office. A Print Shop Greg and Dawn Brown do extensive outreach to educate others about the products and processes they use in operating their print business in Lompoc. The Browns regularly give classes tours of the shop with presentations explaining the printing process, and have a special relationship with Clarence Ruth Elementary School in Lompoc. Before opening A Print Shop, the Browns did extensive research into environmentally sound printing practices.