We're Going Green

These days there are a lot of organizations, festivals, events and various businesses that are talking about "going green". The story of mankind and their interaction on earth is going through some pretty exciting evolutions right now; our culture has began to see the importance of living as a generation that overall cares more for the world around us, both socially as neighbors in humanity and environmentally as inhabitants of the same ecosystem.

The North Coast Agency is full of individuals who care both for their neighbor and their other neighbor, the natural environment. That is why we too, are making this progressive step to take initiative and to 'go green', and become environmentally friendly through all of our dealings.

Our reason for this initiative to go green and environmentally friendly is because we truly believe we can find more environmentally friendly way to do life, to do it better and to do it for a better tomorrow. We also want to encourage other organizations, festivals, events and the various businesses that we work with to partner with us and follow our steps as well and link together in this effort. We can in essence create a neighborhood of resources that people can trust and desire to use because of our accountability to the earth's humanity and natural ecosystem, in effort to do good and create a lighter carbon footprint.

Creating a Greener North Coast Agency; what does that look like?

Eco-Friendly Exhibiting

• Using only recycled paper with our printed materials and information we exhibit at events.
• Our Expo booths will contain products that are recycled or are made of recycled ingredients.
• Our Expo booths will be re-usable, many times over, and not created new for every event.
• We will consolidate shipping to our next events, and ship via ground over air.
• Less Paper; Receipts from sales will ONLY be emailed digitally to the purchaser, to save or print.

Eco-Friendly Promotions

• Promotional materials to be sourced from recycled products and/or using recycled materials.
• Promotional materials will be environmentally friendly, that are useful and untraditional.
• We will not use individual bagging or plastic wrapping on our products.
• Materials will be generic, we will not have event specific materials that expire, reusable.

An Eco-friendly Office

• Re-use packing cartons.
• All invoices, receipts and forms will be sent and handled digitally online and through email.
• We will recycle our recyclable waste in the office and at events.
• All paper will be shredded to consume less space.
• Appliance/Products we are done with to be offered at a discount or free through local sites.
• Use local companies (when possible) to make our materials, putting back into our community
• Using local companies (when possible) to avoid shipping impact.
• Less lighting and electricity will be used, products shut off when not in use.
• We will avoid unnecessary packaging and over packaging.
• We will only use Organic, Shade Grown and Fair Trade coffees in the office.
• Not using disposable CD-R's to transfer files We will use USB Flash Drives to carry our data.
• Using energy efficient computers that are officially Energy Star-certified!
• Saving all magazines! Due to the fact that most magazines can't be recycled, we will continue to save our back archives of all the catalogs, magazines and full color prints we get; or re-use them in some matter or give them away to be enjoyed by others!
• We will only brew organic, Fair-Trade & Shadow Grown Coffee in our office!

Eco-friendly Traveling & Touring

• For the majority of our Travel (when Available); Public transportation such as Local Commuter Services, Greyhound Buses and Amtrak Trains will be used in our travel to and from meetings and offices.
• We will use hotels (when necessary) that are environmentally friendly (when available).
• We will continue to pursue ways for our artists that tour to continue on the road touring, but in environmentally friendly ways.

The North Coast Agency, invites you to blaze your own “help save the environment” path and tell us about it. We truly want a greener, friendly planet that we can enjoy. We are all neighbors on this planet and to this ecosystem, are because of that we have inherited the responsibility of being wise stewards and individuals responsible for it.

We are committed to continuing to find greener and better ways to do business and will keep you in the loop, feel free to share your suggestions as well.