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About the Clean Air Partners Program
Clean Air Partners is Good Business
The Program
Clean Air Partners is a program of the CLEAN AIR Force of Central Texas (CAF), of local employers pledging to reduce pollution-forming emissions while getting regional recognition in return. The program is free and voluntary, recognizing employers who reduce their emissions with a variety of options, while promoting their clean air successes to the community. Partners carry out employee clean air programs and other clean business practices to reduce the emissions that contribute to unhealthy air in our region such as through employee commute solutions programs (encouraging transit use, vanpooling, carpooling, teleworking, biking, walking, flexible schedules), use of cleaner fleets, clean energy practices, low-emission construction/landscaping activities, water conservation practices, and many other activities that can contribute to cleaner air. Employers report their achievements once a year.Origination of the Program
Clean Air Partners was developed in January of 2001 by the CLEAN AIR Force of Central Texas and local environmental and business organizations and stakeholders responding to the recognition that the majority of pollutants creating our harmful ground-level ozone are coming from our vehicles, both on-road (commuting vehicles) and off-road (lawn, construction and site vehicles/equipment). To get to the source of the problem, the CAF recruited six major employers from the region to charter the program and help develop innovative strategies to reduce emissions from employee and employer engines, as well as other employer-based emission sources. The six original partners were Advanced Micro Devices, Intel, Motorola, Samsung, Solectron and Vignette. There are now almost 100 Partners in the 5-county Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Area (Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis and Williamson Counties). Our current Partners are listed on our Partners Page.Clean Air Partners is a FREE and voluntary program eligible for ANY employer within the 5-county Central Texas area of Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis and Williamson Counties. Partners pledge to make a good faith effort to reduce ozone-forming emissions by 10% within a three-year period, quite a doable endeavor! Each Partner creates its own emissions baseline in which to reduce from, and selects a customized set of clean air efforts (that many employers already do!) most fitting and feasible to that Partner’s business makeup and services. The Partner then reports its successes once a year via a user-friendly reporting website that calculates its annual reductions, while archiving data and tracking the annual percent reduced!
Clean Air Partners is Good Business
Why become a Partner, you say? Perhaps the best answer is because it makes good business sense. Many of the strategies used to reduce emissions save employers and employees money. In addition, Partners get publicly thanked and recognized for their efforts with in a variety of advertisements, events and publications.Secondly, air quality is everyone’s business. Everyone contributesto the ozone problem-- as an individual and as a business. From our tailpipes, to our landscaping or construction activities, to our daily utility usage and multiple routine business practices, every individual and employer has an impact. Clean Air Partners offers your employer the opportunity to become steward of the community and environment in doing its share for cleaner air.
See the long list of benefits to becoming a Partner on our Join Page. Save money? Become a steward of our community? Consider becoming a Partner!
View the Join Page to find out more!