Sustainable Businesses strive to:

• Serve as a model that environmentally and socially responsible businesses can also be profitable.
• Support an inclusive and healthy community, and protect our natural environment by, among other things, using less-toxic materials, cutting down on waste, and being more energy efficient.
• Provide employees a healthy workplace with meaningful, living-wage jobs.
• Offer customers personal service and useful, safe, quality products.
• Buy from suppliers with similar values, with a preference for local businesses. Work to ensure suppliers get a fair price for their products.
• Work with other businesses, schools and universities, and municipalities to support projects that both help their business and fulfill their obligation to the community and future generations.
• Recognize their obligations to stockholders and lenders by providing an excellent return on their investments.