Office retail and the restaurant sectors we will be having those created in spanish and chinese and those are currently in the process at the moment and so we are hoping to complete them shortly and as wells the second thing that we are working on further is the businesses work very hard to receive this recognition and to achieve, the high Environmental Standards of the program and so we created a video to help the businesses market their green recognition to the clients and customers, so they understand what to do with the green recognition once they have received it. And, to conclude, the San Francisco Green Business program does offer many benefits to businesses in San Francisco. We as a program do strive to help the businesses go green and take advantage of the many free resources, services, audits and rebates offered by the city here. And so, from myself, and my colleagues, gabby and sue ellen thank you for having us here and we will take any of your questions if you have any. Tha
In the city, economically and environmentally. And so, over the course of one year, our greens and businesses have reduced over 36 Million Pounds of co2 and diverted 1. 6 pounds of waste by composting and waters through the greening measures that we asked them for undertake because that makes sense by using less water and less energy you will save those as an Environmental Impact because if you use this you will have less utility costs and that helps a businesss bottom line. So with the program, we are there, each step of the way to help the businesses, and some of the direct out reach that we do, to businesses, are through, indepth phone consults and on site visits from january, 2013, to june of 2013, so far we have conducted 32 sfoen consults and help to educate, and answer questions and set up audits and offer the rebates to a variety of Small Businesses and also on a larger scale, the program puts out a quarterly newsletter that goes out to the recipients and we also have a Faceboo
Sure if you guys have an experience that you just wanted to call out and something that you felt was very important about San Francisco Small Business week . Or that we should continue to push forward p, and any you do an excellent job and i would like to say publicly that since your involvement with this you have really elevated this event and i remember years ago that we first had the room at the hotel in japan town and it was a oneday event and where it is at now and you have really raised the bar on this and i dont know how we can top it. And i am sure that we will about to hear how we will top this later on. And so, which i dont doubt that you can do. And i thought that flavors was excellent and i like, you know our committee decided to, you know, charge with flavors and it worked. And i mean, and so we kept out mostly kept out, but you made it more interesting and more of of a networking event and i noticed this year, they were kicking us out at 8 00. And in the years past it was
We felt that we did raise awareness around a local neighborhood area. In the coming year, we do hope to move forward with another campaign to increase awareness of the program. The program was able to connect with the Hotel Council of San Francisco and we are able in the partnership to put on a Green Business forum to put on hotels of San Francisco and their partners and the forum was very well received by the council and so we are actually moving forward with a fivepart workshop series to assist the hotels, to green themselves so this is a very industry specific out reach that we are trying to do here. And other items that the program is moving forward with, is a set of translated checklists for the Office Retail and the restaurant sectors we will be having those created in spanish and chinese and those are currently in the process at the moment and so we are hoping to complete them shortly and as wells the second thing that we are working on further is the businesses work very hard t
An excellent job and i would like to say publicly that since your involvement with this you have really elevated this event and i remember years ago that we first had the room at the hotel in japan town and it was a oneday event and where it is at now and you have really raised the bar on this and i dont know how we can top it. And i am sure that we will about to hear how we will top this later on. And so, which i dont doubt that you can do. And i thought that flavors was excellent and i like, you know our committee decided to, you know, charge with flavors and it worked. And i mean, and so we kept out mostly kept out, but you made it more interesting and more of of a networking event and i noticed this year, they were kicking us out at 8 00. And in the years past it was empty by 8 00. And so i thought that was a great sign. Yeah. Just as a comment, while we do charge a 20 fee, we still do sent 75 percent of the attendees coming through with the free passes through the merchant at work