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Is your business green? People want to know what you are doing to be green. Today everyone is saying they are green or sustainable, but not explaining how they fulfill this claim.

So, you must PROVE IT to the community if you want to be taken seriously.

To apply for your badges, click on the badge that you feel you may qualify for and give as much detail as possible as to what your organization`s efforts are for that badge.

You must earn a total of 5 badges to have a chance at inclusion in the Green Directory.

The Badge Department will review your application, and return a response within 3- 5 days to let you know if you have been accepted.

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Each Green Badge has a proprietary score given it due to its importance in an organization`s efforts to be sustainable. The Green Badges are automatically tallied and an algorithm ranks the highest scoring organization in each category at the top of the list and above the page fold, rewarding the highest achieving organization`s efforts and creating competition to continually improve sustainability efforts. If you have questions about this system, please call customer service at 406-208-TREE(8733).

Our mission is to give everyone the choice to preserve our beautiful planet for future generations. Knowledge of greener choices can provide a way to the sustainable future we all want.

Maybe one green change alone can`t make the world sustainable overnight, but thousands, and eventually millions of ones will. One drop in a bucket hardly makes a splash, but millions of individual drops make an ocean.

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Employee educational subsidies

Awarded to individuals or organizations that offer employees pay or offer funding for educational purposes, whether related to the occupation or to the goals of the employee. Examples: company pays for college education for full-time employees, skilled employees are put through company-paid training program to learn more about the industry, employees earn scholarships from performance and attendance records, etc...


Green Directory clients that have been awarded the Employee educational subsidies badge.

Action Coach
We believe that our success and the success of the clients we serve is a function of the educational standards we set for ourselves. Therefore, we encourage and pay for many training opportunities for each of our employees regularly.
Innovative Technology Solutions
We send our employees to workshops and seminars for continued education.
My New Water
We provide training, education and marketing for all independent distributors.
Wal-Mart
G.E.D. reimbursement plan for employees who graduate this program.
Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center
Offer continuing education opportunities for all departments.
KB Commercial Products
Our sales department is sent to national industry schools constantly, to keep industry knowledge high.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Yellowstone County
Employees attend the BBBS of America regional conference where best practice training is provided. Additional training provided as needed (Microsoft classes, etc.)
KBS Computer Solutions
We pay for employees Microsoft certifications and other certifications.
Fedex Kinko`s
We provide education reimbursment for all of our employees.
Woof This Way
Monthly training sessions which focus on aspects of professionalism such as customer service, interpersonal skills, business communication and skills pertinent to the job duties.
Laser Cycle of Montana
We provide our technicians with factory training, resident and non-resident, for our equipment lines (Sharp / Lexmark / HP / Okidata / etc.). Upon successful completion, Laser Cycle will reimburse employees for local education that is job related (Quick Books / Excel / Sales / Computer Repair / etc.).
Greenspace Landscaping
We encourage more education whenever possible and pay for it.
Greene Construction
On going and continuing green building education and accreditaion for all employees.
Headwaters Floating Islands
We offer training that is necessary to support and sustain our business and to learn about new technology and scientifc developments in our field.
J Bar L Ranches
Employees are encouraged to participate in continuing education activities and programs.
ClearSky Climate Solutions
Training opportunities and travel for work are considered part of the job.
Reporter Big Sky Office
Reporter Big Sky Office pays for employee's training to enhance thier product knowledge and skills.
St. Vincent Healthcare
St. Vincent Healthcare provides financial support to employees who wish to further their formal education. Specific eligibility criteria must be met. A variety of scholarship programs may be offered to provide financial support to employees, and in some cases their eligible children.
Summit Mechanical
We offer to split the costs of many industry related classes and certifications.
Tallman Dermatology and Medical Spa
We provide continuing education allowances for employees. We are flexible in our scheduling for employees attending school.
Schnitzer Billings
We do pay for continuing education for employees as it relates to their jobs.
Rocky Mountain Health Network
Rocky Mountain Health Network provides financial support to employees who wish to further their formal education. Specific eligibility criteria must be met. A variety of scholarship programs may be offered to provide financial support to employees, and in some cases their eligible children.
Sunelco
We allow unpaid time off and unpaid extended leave for one employ to pursue her degree and also provide occasional work for another university student to help supplement her income. We hire a high school student 1 hour per day. We provide factory training for employees relevant to their professional goals.
Rituals Dayspa & Salon
Our staff dedicates a minimum 8 hours per week to training on customer service, relationship building, and technical skills related to cosmetology.
Connoisseur Media
To advance knowledge in sales and broadcasting our staff attends Montana Broadcaster's Association Seminars.
Goff Architecture, Ltd
In 2008 both office staff as well as field workers attended seminars related to design and construction at no expense to them. Currently several employees are working towards getting their LEED AP certification.
Barta Built
We occasionally go to educational seminars. We have recently attended seminars on straw bale construction and renewable energy production.
Shaklee Independent Distributor Megan Richert
Shaklee offers further education on training about the products and how to be successful in the business.
Shaklee Independent Distributor Debbie McLarnon
Shaklee offers further education on training about the products and how to be successful in the business.
Boothill Inn & Suites
Available to management staff. CPR offered to all employees at no cost. Work-related seminars and classes available to employees on a case-by-case basis.
ProTech Mechanical Inc.
Employees are sent to trainings all around the country to include geothermal, radiant flooring, Energy Star HVAC and steam systems.
Planet Beach
All employees go through an intensive training before starting, requiring a test that must be passed before they can work on the spa floor.
Action Electric
We offer an apprenticeship program for employees who want to learn the electrician trade.
Billings Insulation Service
We have monthly training sessions which focus on safety, customer service, product knowledge and MSDS training.
Avanta Federal Credit Union
All levels receive education including in-house training, webinars and videos.
OSP Enterprises
All employees receive training on a variety of required skills.
Green Directory Montana
Green Directory offers training on a variety of skillsets from environmental to marketing to business, and can provide higher education for environmental certification programs.
Stewart Title Company
Mandatory 20 hours a year in training.
NYR Organic
We offer monthly trainings and can download phone/video trainings.
St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center
For all full and part time employees (prorated)
Invisible Fence of the Big Sky
We offer our employees the opportunity to grow and expand through education such as dog training, sales & customer service training.
Hanger Refrigeration / Air Conditioning / Solar
Our Company Offers to Our Employees, Three Types of Employee Educational Financial Assistance Packages after One Year Employment.
Western States Insurance
Western States Insurance offers each employee a yearly education allowance to further their knowledge in industry specific courses along with soft-skills training. Employees can earn a scholarship to Leadership Billings (leadership program offered through the Billings Chamber of Commerce).
Bridger Bowl
We provide ongoing education on topics such as snow safety, lift mechanics, marketing and many others. Bridger Bowl has a Sustainability Committee completing the Yellowstone Business Partnership's Uncommon Sense program in 2009. This is a very action and results oriented program, primarily designed to help businesses recognize, measure and reduce their waste stream as well as make better decisions in purchasing, consumption and management practices related to sustainability. This committee in turn works with departmental supervisors and other Bridger staff to effect positive changes throughout the organization. As stated in our Employee Handbook, "It is the responsibility of all employees to conduct themselves in a manner compliant with these practices. Our Sustainability Committee encourages ideas and suggestions from all Bridger Bowl employees to improve our efforts."
Field of Dreams
Our employees have the opportunity to go through a certification process called certified plant professionals and/or the master gardener program.
Corbond
We have extensive training for our employees and contractors.
Big Sky Town Center
Provide on going education as needed.
Natural Capital
We provide ongoing education on all topics related to: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Management, Advice on Climate Change Issues, Offsets, Emissions Inventory, Reporting and Climate Change and Business.
We Trade Network
We offer on-going education for our employees, the most recent was computer school.
Livingston Area Chamber of Commerce
The Chamber offers related tourism and business educational seminars & webinars.
Studio Av, Inc.
We provide on going education to keep up with the many changes with technology.
Morrison-Maierle Systems Corp
We offer additional tuition reimbursement for continuing education and certifications.
Energetechs
We encourage all of our employees to further their education and improve their knowledge of building energy efficiency. We pay for some employee trainings and provide some paid time for study.
Safeguard of Western Montana
Employees have the option to take classes whenever they want.
Transtech Data Center - Parsec Data Management
We have on-going technology training for employees, including seminars, workshops, and webinars.
Bozeman Green Build
We train and educate our employees on ground source heat, Northwestern Energy star program, HERS rater program, and many safety training topics.
Rocky Mountain Mr. & Ms. Magazine [RM3]
Staff is sent to complimentary training such as Social Media 101 and Sales & Customer Retention training too name a few from the past year.
Integral Grace LLC
We offer free classes often.
Billings YMCA
We offer education through Y-USA; voluntarism, managerial, customer service training.
Sanctuary Spa & Salon
Education is very important to us. We fly out employees for training and bring in instructors to educate our team.
Home Builders Association - Great Falls
We attend many events, as a result we go to the classes to receive additional education from speakers.
David Blackman - Farmers Insurance
David Blackman Insurance Agency Inc. pays for it's employee to attend classes that are industry related and pays for all their continuing education classes to fulfill their state required CE credits and renews their licenses.
Fordham Sonographics, Inc.
Our corporation provides reimbursement for our employees who attend any ultrasound accredited seminars yearly.
Northfork Financial
We provide ongoing education related to employee-sponsored benefit plans.


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