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Laura Kerimova Cole Hardware Technology: Hardware # of Employees: 108 Make money? Hardware & Tools , Paint & Electrical, Home & Cleaning, Garden & Plumbing, Home Repair Referral Service Give back? CSR Practices – (Environment, Community, & Employees) •SF Green Business Recognition: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (old batteries, cell phones, paint, fluorescent bulbs, printer cartridges) •Reduction of toxic materials: (environment & employee health protection) - Promote environmentally friendly products (non-toxic cleaning, Energy Star) •Reusable shopping bags (Cole Hardware Earth Friendly Bags!), •Conserve energy, water, & natural resources - Tree free paper, promote public transit, spare the air campaign •Educate: environmental awareness (newsletters) •Community Assistance Partnership Program: Gives $75,000/year
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Laura KerimovaCole Hardware Technology: Hardware# of Employees: 108
Make money? Hardware & Tools , Paint & Electrical, Home & Cleaning, Garden & Plumbing, Home Repair Referral ServiceGive back? CSR Practices – (Environment, Community, & Employees)•SF Green Business Recognition: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (old batteries, cell phones, paint, fluorescent bulbs, printer cartridges)•Reduction of toxic materials: (environment & employee health protection) - Promote environmentally friendly products (non-toxic cleaning, Energy Star)•Reusable shopping bags (Cole Hardware Earth Friendly Bags!), •Conserve energy, water, & natural resources - Tree free paper, promote public transit, spare the air campaign•Educate: environmental awareness (newsletters)•Community Assistance Partnership Program: Gives $75,000/year in goods & gift cards to 500 partnering schools & NPO’s • “Quadruple Bottom Line” : Environmental Advocacy, Social Advocacy, Workplace Advocacy, Operate Profitable Business (value in local community)
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Employee Education: - Zero Waste Events (no waste generated in company picnics & meetings)
Key Stakeholders: Community, Environment, Staff Why should we be interested in Cole Hardware?
They make every effort to show how much they care by doing good things for the environment, community, and staff by incorporating sustainability into their
business practices.
Cole hardware. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.colehardware.com/
Lawrence, A. T. & Weber, J. (2011). Business & Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy (13th ed). New York: McGraw-Hill Irwin: pp. 45.67.
Literacy for environmental justice. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.lejyouth.org/
Contact Interview: Rick Karp, Owner, aka “Keeper of the Karma”Email: [email protected] of Interview: April 10, 2012
