12 Steps | Grow Me The Money

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Step 1: Time to get started.

The first step is about reviewing your current sustainability practices and forming your Green Team.

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Step 2: Establish your current usage.

In step two you'll enter the details of your utility usage over the past 12 months. This helps you establish a benchmark for improvements.

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Steps 3, 4 & 5: Review your waste, energy and water use.

Over these three steps you'll access tools to review waste, energy and water usage and develop an Action Plan to help you begin making changes.

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Step 6: Complete your Action Plan

The halfway mark is when you'll finalise your Action Plan and work with your Sustainability Services Consultant to select the changes that will benefit your business the most.

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Steps 7 & 8: Put your plan into action.

The tools in these steps will help you get processes in place to implement your Action Plan throughout your business.

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Step 9: Talk to your supply chain about sustainability.

In Step 9, use Grow Me The Money templates to communicate your plans to your supply chain, and talk to them about how you can work together for environmental sustainability.

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Step 10: Select green products and sustainable suppliers.

This step you'll develop green purchasing guidelines for your business, and begin to explore options for buying sustainable products.

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Step 11: Market your sustainable, green business.

In step 11, you'll learn how to share information about the actions you've been taking through media releases, marketing and PR.

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Step 12: Report your achievements.

The final step is about getting your utility bills up to date, and reporting on what you've completed from your Action Plan.

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At the end of your 12 steps you will receive a comprehensive report of the financial and environmental savings achieved by your business and a Certificate of Participation recognising your achievements.

Each month you will receive an email reminder providing you with support and guidance. We recommend and have found that on average most businesses complete 1 step per month. However, your business can set its own pace. If you find that you are completing the steps ahead of our monthly email reminder, feel free to continue along the program - you do not have to wait for our email to access the next step online. By the same token, if your business needs more time to complete each step, take the time to work through the year long program at a pace that suits your business.