Cadmus Wins Bronze Award in First Green Games Competitiom Sponsored by Arlington County, Virginia
Cadmus’ Arlington, Va., office recently won a bronze award in the inaugural Green Games competition sponsored by the Arlington County, Fresh AIRE (Arlington Initiative to Reduce Emissions) program.
Cadmus joined more than 100 commercial building owners and tenants in the year-long effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by deploying energy-efficient, no- to low-cost, and sustainable practices. Participants saved a total of $2 million in avoided water and energy costs and prevented the release of 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of taking almost 2,000 passenger vehicles off the road for one year.
“I’m proud of the hard work and dedication to the company’s core principles of environmental stewardship shown by our colleagues in Arlington,” said Ian Kline, Cadmus president and CEO. “And I want to especially thank and commend our Green Games team for their hard work in this effort.”
Vicky Kiechel, senior associate, led the office’s Green Games team of activists Mert Oktem, associate, Claire Lazo, senior analyst, and McCrea Dunton and Rustom Meyer, analysts.
The keys to Cadmus’s success were:
- The Arlington office staff’s already stellar green awareness and behavior.
- The company’s employee benefits package, including our public transportation subsidy/incentive, which encourages and supports our employee-owners’ green habits.
- The County Green Games team’s assessment and analysis of the performance of our building and staff members.
“McCrea Dunton’s Cadmus waste audit was a particularly memorable effort,” Vicky said. “McCrea led a proper waste audit, an event conducted without warning to staff on a typical mid-week day, not at holiday time. You sort and analyze your ongoing consumables waste stream at the end of the day to determine if you are properly recycling all that can be recycled, and to understand the volume or weight of your waste.”
“The results indicated that if we were to implement weekly compostables collection for a modest fee from a private hauler, the Arlington office could divert over 90 percent of its office waste from landfills to become, by definition, a zero-waste office,” she added. “So for further improvement, composting is probably at the top of the list.”
Fresh AIRE plans to expand the Green Games to the retail and restaurant sectors of the community this summer before relaunching the office sector program in January 2013.
About The Cadmus Group, Inc.
Cadmus (https://cadmusgroup.com) helps government, non-profit and corporate clients address critical challenges in the environmental, energy, and public health sectors. We provide an array of research and analytical services in the United States and abroad, specializing in solving complex problems that demand innovative, multidisciplinary thinking. Our major service areas are water, energy services, social marketing and market transformation, health policy and communications, green building, international development, and strategic environmental consulting. Many of our senior consultants are nationally recognized experts in their fields, and several serve on high-level U.S. government science advisory boards.
