Earth Hour - Baltimore is pleased to announce the addition of the Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP Baltimore Office and 100 East Pratt Street to our growing list of participants. The members of the PwC Baltimore Green Team have generously offered to help solicit the participation of fellow downtown offices as part of their year round efforts to improve the environmental behaviors of their office members.
Steve Hatfield, the PwC Baltimore Green Team Leader has offered to share the following summary of the great work they are doing.
The PwC Baltimore office is committed to promoting green behaviors in an office setting and the community while utilizing sustainable products and methods of conducting business. In order to keep this important initiative focused and progressing, the first ever PwC Baltimore green team was created in the fall of 2007. Our mission statement is to enact and improve environmental behaviors within the office and the community by educating employees and citizens on the benefits of making daily choices that are advantageous to the environment. The PwC Baltimore green team is composed of a 4 chair person committee and partner champion. The 4 members of the committee each have their own initiatives that they are in charge of organizing and promoting. These initiatives include in-house green management, transportation, client site green management, and community service. The partner champion’s role is to facilitate communication between the green team and upper management in order to expedite the implementation of environmentally friendly initiatives throughout the workplace. Each initiative has identified important areas where green behavior can be improved upon.
One of our yearly key events that we take part in is promoting and supporting the Earth Hour campaign in Baltimore. This important global movement is pivotal to gathering support and increasing awareness of the environmental sustainability challenges that we face not only as a city or a nation, but as a planet. The PwC Baltimore Green Team is doing its part by reaching out to all corporations in the downtown area to foster support and most importantly make sure they turn their lights out on March 28th. Additionally, the team will be holding in-house educational programs to teach fellow employees the concept of Earth Hour and instill lasting behavioral changes that stretch beyond this finite event. An email will also be sent to all employees in the PwC Washington Metro market (which includes Baltimore, Tysons Corner and Richmond) that will explain our firms' involvement in Earth Hour and request their participation at their homes by having them submit an electronic pledge. Finally to spread the word to those who will not be in the city on March 28th to participate, the team will have volunteers working in the building lobby to spread the word on Earth Hour and increase general awareness.
By continuing to advance green initiatives in our office and beyond, the PwC Baltimore green team will demonstrate to its clients and the community that a responsible member of the corporate community can successfully overcome the dichotomy of being a leader in the client services industry while simultaneously operating in an environmentally sustainable manner. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Steve Hatfield
Tax Associate – Baltimore Green Team Leader
One of our yearly key events that we take part in is promoting and supporting the Earth Hour campaign in Baltimore. This important global movement is pivotal to gathering support and increasing awareness of the environmental sustainability challenges that we face not only as a city or a nation, but as a planet. The PwC Baltimore Green Team is doing its part by reaching out to all corporations in the downtown area to foster support and most importantly make sure they turn their lights out on March 28th. Additionally, the team will be holding in-house educational programs to teach fellow employees the concept of Earth Hour and instill lasting behavioral changes that stretch beyond this finite event. An email will also be sent to all employees in the PwC Washington Metro market (which includes Baltimore, Tysons Corner and Richmond) that will explain our firms' involvement in Earth Hour and request their participation at their homes by having them submit an electronic pledge. Finally to spread the word to those who will not be in the city on March 28th to participate, the team will have volunteers working in the building lobby to spread the word on Earth Hour and increase general awareness.
By continuing to advance green initiatives in our office and beyond, the PwC Baltimore green team will demonstrate to its clients and the community that a responsible member of the corporate community can successfully overcome the dichotomy of being a leader in the client services industry while simultaneously operating in an environmentally sustainable manner. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Steve Hatfield
Tax Associate – Baltimore Green Team Leader
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