Green Property Solutions

What If…?

• You could reduce your operating expenses?
• Your property could gain value in a down market?
• You had a higher occupancy rate?
• Your employees were more productive?

And what if all of that increased your competitive advantage in the marketplace while simultaneously doing what’s right for the environment?

In these challenging times, every organization and every building owner needs to find ways to responsibly reduce costs. Every Dollar Counts!

For Property Owners & Managers

As the market for green businesses and green buildings increases, non-green businesses or buildings will become at-risk. Consumers are starting to favor companies that have an obvious and transparent environmental policy. Once this becomes the norm, those companies that still do not have such policies will suffer and due to the power of the internet, those companies that green-wash and make false environmental claims may suffer even more.

GPS works with property owners and managers of commercial real estate who want to add value to their property by implementing innovative and cost effective improvements that make a property more sustainable… [Read More]

For Business Owners

Studies have also shown that employee productivity benefits are estimated to be as much as 10 times the energy savings from green efforts. These benefits come in the form of lower absenteeism, fewer headaches at work, greater retail sales and easier re-configuration of space resulting in less downtime and lower costs.  Further, employees of green businesses and in green buildings will be happier and feel healthier knowing there are less toxic products in their day to day environment.

GPS works with small to medium-sized business owners to assist them in differentiating themselves from their competitors. Whether through a newly customized or enhanced corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitment or one of our other select programs, GPS will navigate you through the often challenging road to sustainability.

One of the programs we advocate is the Bay Area Green Business Program. Through the Green Business Program organizations can obtain the status of a Certified Green Business. Operated throughout the nine Bay Area counties, it gives organizations a competitive advantage… [Read more]