Vancity Celebrates 10 Years Carbon Neutral

A long time client, Vancity is proud to celebrate it's 10th year as a carbon neutral business. They have been leaders in many environmental initiatives, and this is one of significant milestones in their sustainabiliy journey.

Learn more from Vancity below:

Why they did it

"As a triple bottom line (financial, social and environmental) business, how we take action on climate change is one of the ways we rate our success as an organization. 

Vancity has a long history of taking action against climate change. We like to say we were acting on climate change back when green was still just a colour. And we’ll let you in on a little secret: being green has also strengthened our business and saved us money. 

Since we started reducing our energy use and emissions from our buildings, Vancity’s saved over $4.5 million in energy costs. In doing so, we’ve been able to attract new members and employees who share our values and like our conservation-minded approach. 

As of December 31, 2007, Vancity is officially a carbon-neutral organization. We did it with the help of experts at: The David Suzuki Foundation; The Pembina Institute; The Natural Step; Ecotrust Canada; The University of British Columbia; and Offsetters. Our data was audited by Interpraxis (our social auditor)."

Watch the clip of the big announcement.

Learn more about how they got here, and what happens next:

• The journey to zero – tracking our footprint
• Energy use
• Staff transportation and travel
• Paper use
• Waste
• Carbon offsets
• Reducing our emissions – a lifelong journey
• How your organization can be carbon neutral