Green Restaurant Association
The Green Restaurant Association (GRA) is a national non=profit organization which provides research, consulting, education, marketing and community organizing services to restaurants and a variety of other food service companies. Their mission is to “create an ecologically sustainable restaurant industry.” The organization was recently highlighted in a New York Times article titled “Going Out to [...]
E.U. Eco-label
Established in 1992, the European Union Eco-label “Flower” is a unique certification scheme aimed to help European consumers distinguish greener, more environmentally friendly, products and services.
Over the past ten years, the “Flower” has become a European-wide symbol for products, providing simple and accurate guidance to consumers.
All products bearing the “Flower” have been checked by [...]
WaterSense Rating System by the U.S. EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has introduced a new water efficiency program dubbed WaterSense. The EPA states that the goal of the rating system is to “spead(ing) the ethic of water efficiency and promote(ing) the tools to make wise water choices.” In many ways the program is similar to the very successful EnergyStar system that [...]
