Sustainability at GreenState
GOAL: Sustainability for employees and members
Sustainability Engagement Score
What is the Sustainability Engagement Score?
GreenState’s sustainability engagement score comes from Verdis Group’s Sustainability Engagement Survey, which helps establish an understanding of GreenState’s employees’ views on sustainability. The survey results will shape initiatives going forward. To quantify a sustainability engagement score, the survey measures five dimensions of sustainability, scoring each dimension out of 100. The overall score is calculated by averaging responses from the five key dimensions. Scores shown below are calculated based on GreenState’s 2022 responses.
Employee Mode Split
What is a mode split?
Mode Split is a metric used to measure the percentage of employees who use active modes of transportation (do not drive alone in a personal vehicle) on a regular basis. The graph shows the breakdown of employee commutes by mode at GreenState.
Baseline: 38%
Member Strategies
Since August 2022, GreenState Credit Union has been partnering with Verdis Group, a sustainability and climate action consultant company, to develop services and policies to support GSCU’s members. Through a thoughtful process, three strategies were determined: Environmental Community Investments, Climate Action Hub, and Clean Energy Loan Program.
By implementing these strategies, GSCU has the opportunity to be a leader in sustainability, support climate action for its members, and develop innovative climate solutions as a financial institution.
Environmental Community Investments
Environmental Community Investments would provide guidance for 1) how GSCU might more strategically invest its financial and human resources to support environmental causes, 2) how to avoid greenwashing and greenhushing, and 3) purchasing carbon offsets.
Clean Energy Loan Program
Clean Energy Loan Program advises on how GSCU might enter the clean energy loan (and other potential programs) market and position itself for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grant opportunities.
Climate Action Hub
Climate Action Hub is focused on providing recommendations for how GSCU could leverage the trust it has with its members to provide them with external resources pertaining to currently available tax incentives, grants and other third-party financial support that can be used to defray the upfront costs of sustainable action.
