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Green Directory Badges
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.
By applying for these badges, you agree to be audited randomly. Green Directory Montana® has secret shoppers that will randomly order services or come in to shop and observe. These observations will be reported to the Badge Department, and if necessary, an investigation can be done and badges may be pulled.
If approved, badges will be displayed under the businesses who have earned them. An algorithm automatically ranks who is the "greenest" in each category. The Badge page allows consumers to search for listings by badges earned, i.e. businesses who recycle, donate to non-profits, etc.
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.
Badge Classification Legend
Green = Environmental Efforts
Pink = Humanitarian Efforts
Brown = Agricultural Efforts
Orange = Conservation Efforts
Yellow = Waste Management Efforts
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 | Erosion preventionAwarded to individuals or organizations that incorporate practices that reduce the erosion of soil. Examples: planting pine trees along driveway to office to help hold the soil together, using sunflowers to clean and hold soil, timers control when sprinklers come on to avoid over-watering, etc...
Green Directory clients that have been awarded the Erosion prevention badge.
Billings Landscape AssociatesWe install sprinkler systems into many of our projects. The clocks used to run the sprinkler systems have a setting where the water budget can be adjusted to avoid wasting water while preventing soil erosion. | J Bar L RanchesWe enhance our river banks and range lands by increasing the diversity and abundance of native plants through mindful grazing practices. | ClearSky Climate SolutionsExplicitly included in our forest management carbon sequestration projects. | Western Sustainability ExchangeWSE rewards stewardship that prevents erosion by marketing products from operations that prevent erosion to niche markets in the culinary and natural food sectors. | Barta Builtcontinuous cropping and green manure | New West LandscapesNew West Landscapes designs vegetation and terracing in areas where erosion control is a concern. We include native erosion control plantings along water and runoff quality and control structures in our large scale Landscape Design Projects. | Aspen Ridge Ranch All material from excavation has been used and all top soil has been applied to foster native vegetation and grasses. | The Orchard at Flathead Lakeplant clover and other cover crops to help our hillsides | Tradia MontanaWe have planted trees to help hold the soil from becoming eroded. | Bridger BowlWe use water bars to prevent erosion. | Field of DreamsTo prevent erosion we plant trees and shrubs. | Red Quill Ranch, LLCSloped hillsides are re-vegetated. | EnergetechsIn our yards we have applied a lot of mulch, weedmat, and xeriscaped beds with rock and native plants that slow runoff, promote water infiltration into the ground, and reduce erosion. | Wolf Ridge Lamb and Wool Co.By planning and limiting the duration of high animal impact on our hillsides and along streams improves soil and vegetation, thus reducing erosion. | Montana Timber ProductsLogging dead standing timber allows under growth such as seedlings and native grasses to grow by opening up the forest canopy and allowing sunlight to hit the forest floor. The native under growth takes root and helps to secure erosion from happing during heavy rain and snow. |
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Green Directory Montana State Edition Summer 2009
Green Directory Billings Edition Summer 2009
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