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Key Green Solutions Sponsors West Michigan Environmental Action Council’s 21st Annual Cleanup

Owner Mark Huizenga speaks to attendees of the annual cleanup

On Saturday, September 7, Key Green Solutions attended the 21st annual WMEAC Mayors’ Grand River Cleanup. This effort allows friends, family, and businesses to volunteer their time picking up debris along the Grand River. In addition to having the opportunity to be a sponsor, Key Green Solutions employees were able to speak at the event and join the manual cleanup efforts.

Employees Jeff Burks and Joel Buys clean up along the Grand River in downtown
Grand Rapids

If you are interested in joining the WMEAC Mayors’ Grand River Cleanup, the event goes through Saturday, September 14.

If you are interested in speaking with Key Green Solutions about tracking your sustainability metrics, please reach out to Relationship Manager Jeff Burks: jburks@keygreensolutions.com

Key Green Solutions Celebrates Earth Day

Key Green Solutions Team volunteers with Kent Conservation District in celebration of Earth Day

Happy Earth Day Week! Why limit action to Monday? There are endless opportunities to express appreciation and love for our beautiful planet every single day.

This past Saturday the Key Green Solutions team volunteered with Kent Conservation District in support of the Homegrown National Park Movement. This event involved selling and giving bare root plants native to Michigan. The event encourages the community to take the seedlings home to be planted on the same day, with the ultimate goal of helping individuals join the movement to restore biodiversity and ecosystem function.

Key Green Solutions customers understand the importance of making every day Earth Day, no matter how small the impact may initially seem. The little steps count on the path to a more sustainable community. If your facility is interested in gaining a better understanding of its daily energy use, water consumption, purchasing patterns, nutritional purchasing habits, greenhouse gas emissions, or waste disposal, please reach out to Relationship Manager Jeff Burks for an easy, free, and quick consultation.

jburks@keygreensolutions.com

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Key Green Solutions Celebrates Earth Day with Kent Conservation District

Key Green Solutions team helps at Kent Conservation District tree and native plant sale.

Over the weekend the Key Green Solutions family assisted Kent Conservation District in one of their four annual tree and native plant sales. It was a great opportunity to celebrate Earth Day and help out with local conservation efforts at home in the beautiful state of Michigan.

With the help of volunteers, the Kent Conservation District was able to sell over 9,300 tree and shrub seedlings native to Michigan (42 different species offered!), along with facilitating important discussions with visitors about replanting, conservation, and invasive species awareness.

If your company would like to have a discussion about tracking data surrounding your conservation efforts, please reach out to Relationship Manager Jeff Burks: jburks@keygreensolutions.com

All Your Energy Data at the Touch of Your Fingertips!

At Key Green Solutions, one of the modules we offer for tracking is Energy & Water. We are able to obtain data directly from your vendors, making the process easy for your employees. Simply log in and have a comprehensive view of all your data.

Track energy sources by meter (consumption and supply) costs in one place:

Electricity (Grid, Hydroelectric, Wind, Solar, Biomass, Cogeneration)
- Heating (Natural Gas, Steam, Propane, Fuel, Cogeneration)
- Water (Potable water, Sewage, Irrigation, Make-Up, and Storm water)
- Chilled Water
- Hot Water

We normalize the energy data to account for changes in:

Weather (heating and cooling degree days)
- Square footage
- Billing cycle days / Calendar month days
- Rates

We are able to help you look at meter usage, and can point out any problems that may be costing your organization money in the long run.

Our enterprise level sustainability tools will help your organization develop systematic solutions!

Practice Green Health, 2019 Data

Another year of assisting health systems with Practice Green Health awards has come to a close!

Key Green Solutions has been helping upload data to the Practice Green Health award application for years. This year, we were able to help 13 healthcare systems: Bronson, Dignity, Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess, Hackensack, Johns Hopkins, Montefiore, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Sutter, Seattle Children’s, Stanford, University of California, Veterans Affairs, and Valley Health.

Key Green Solutions is a great tool to use for applications such as Practice Green Health and the Cool Food Pledge. When you don’t have time to put together all the numbers, we step in and do it for you. We are happy to help make a time-consuming task much more manageable, and look forward to working with more healthcare– and beyond– systems in the future!

To learn more about how we can help your organization improve your sustainability initiatives and enhance your bottom line contact us at sales@keygreensolutions.com to schedule a free online software demonstration.

Key Green Solutions a Silver Friend of the 2019 CHA Assembly

Key Green Solutions was honored to be a Silver Sponsor Friend of the CHA Assembly in Dallas, TX. This was our third year as a sponsor, and it was a great experience.

Key Green Solutions with our customer CommonSpirit Health on June 10, 2019

As a sponsor, we were able to meet many great members and share our software solution designed for healthcare. Our modular based software is the leading sustainability data solution for healthcare. The modules include:

• Waste

• Energy/Water

• Food

• Purchasing

Our solution automates your data collection process to all your vendors, eliminates paper, and allows you to benchmark your facilities internally or to national Key Green benchmarks.

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Large Hospital” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions

Cleveland Medical Center has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Large Hospital” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions, the leading sustainability management software company. The award recognizes Cleveland Medical Center as the best performing large (>500 beds) hospital that is successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating a culture of sustainability. Cleveland Medical Center stands out with their strong commitment to energy, waste, food, and purchasing. They achieved top 25% highest recycling, top 25% lowest in water, and top 25% lowest RMW. They were the highest performer in the following categories; Local/sustainable Food, Healthy Beverages, and Green Cleaning purchases.

The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Tracking Awards were presented in San Diego, CA at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 7, 2018

Dignity Health St. Mary’s Medical Center has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Medium Hospital” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions

Dignity Health St. Mary’s Medical Center has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Medium Hospital” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions, the leading sustainability management software company. The award recognizes St. Mary’s Medical Center as the best performing medium (100-499 beds) hospital that is successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating a culture of sustainability. St. Mary’s Medical Center stands out with their strong commitment to energy and waste. They achieved top 25% highest recycling, top 25% lowest in water, top 25% lowest RMW, and top 25% lowest energy used. They were the top performer in Healthy Beverages at 65.9%.

The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Tracking Awards were presented in San Diego, CA at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 7, 2018

TriHealth Bethesda Butler Hospital has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Small Hospital” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions

TriHealth Bethesda Butler Hospital has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for a Small Hospital” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions, the leading sustainability management software company. The award recognizes TriHealth Bethesda Butler Hospital as the best performing small (0-99 beds) hospital that is successfully measuring, setting system goals, benchmarking, and creating and culture of sustainability. TriHealth Bethesda Butler Hospital stands out with their strong commitment to water. They achieved top 25% lowest in water. They also achieved top 25% in the lowest amount energy used. Bethesda Butler is the top performer in; Local/sustainable food purchases, recycling rate, and RMW rate.

The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Tracking Awards were presented in San Diego, CA at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 7, 2018

Sutter Health has been honored with the “Sustainability Tracking Award for an Emerging User” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions

Sutter Health has been honored with the “Emerging User Award” for 2017 from Key Green Solutions, the leading sustainability management software company. The award recognized Sutter Health for their engagement and commitment to improving sustainability and growing the sustainability culture at their organization.

The Key Green Solutions Sustainability Tracking Awards were presented in San Diego, CA at the Key Green Solutions reception on May 7, 2018.