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Aureus Solutions Inc.

Aureus Solutions Inc. supports clients reach their environmental performance potential and manage environmental risks. Aureus Solutions help staff assess, understand, and track their environmental compliance, corporate greening and sustainable performance, providing a framework for identifying and carrying out improvements that may be desirable for financial, sustainable development, or regulatory reasons.

Community Actions

Action Target Status Themes

Energy Savings Through Reduced Temperature Management
- We have not used air conditioning at all for the past 5 years.
- Our office is kept at 18C at all times during cold months between 6AM and 6PM, after which the temperature is dropped to 5C. Only the bathroom is left at 18C at all times to prevent pipes from freezing.

- Eliminate all air conditioning use at office.
- Keep office temperature at 18C during office operation and 5C during off hours.

Successful and ongoing

Primary theme: EN1

All themes by pillar
Environmental: EN1

Waste Diversion
Eliminate office solid waste to landfill.

 

Reduce net solid waste (ie. waste that is sent to the landfill) to zero bags/year.

Ongoing
 - 2010: approx. 12 small, 100% biodegradable bags (kitchen sized) were land filled last year for office of two.

Primary theme: EN3

All themes by pillar
Environmental: EN3

Eliminate Transportation to and from Office
We currently have an office within 10 min walk of our homes. We purposely purchased downtown locations within a small radius and selected a downtown office within that zone, allowing both business owners to walk to work, resulting in 0 GHGs due to transportation.

 - All office employees walk to work every day.

Successful and ongoing

Primary theme: EN1

All themes by pillar
Environmental: EN1

Create Paperless Office
Eliminate the use of paper in our office.

 

- 0 sheets of paper printed.
- No incoming industry mail or junk mail.

 - Ongoing
 - 2010: < 2 packs of 500 sheets printed last year (includes faxes) 
 - Moving all magazine subscriptions to digital.

Primary theme: EN3

All themes by pillar
Environmental: EN3