Project EverGreen Creates Brochure to Educate Commercial Property Owners

Project EverGreen recently made it even easier for professional lawn and landscape firms to educate commercial customers about the value of their services. Titled "How Green Can Save - And Make - You Money," the brochure is available for purchase by landscape and lawn care professionals to distribute to their commercial customers. The brochure goes beyond the environmental benefits of maintaining the green spaces surrounding a commercial property to explain how well managed and responsibly maintained green spaces actually contribute to the bottom line.

"It's a proven fact that well managed landscaping and lawn care efforts not only  make a business look more appealing," says Den Gardner, executive director of Project EverGreen, "They actually result in lower operating and help drive an increase in property values each year."

The brochure makes a green space business case with facts such as:

• Landscaping can aid in reducing air conditioning costs by up to 50 percent.
• Planting just one tree can remove 26 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually, equaling 11,000 miles of car emissions.
• Businesses are easier to locate when framed by trees and vegetation, rather than concrete.

Office views of green spaces are proven to increase productivity and job satisfaction.

Gardner says that with more retail space being developed each year, it is vital to educate business owners about the importance of managed, responsible maintenance of the green spaces surrounding their businesses. It's good business for the whole community, and the easiest way to do that is to show them how it relates to dollars and cents.

"Who wouldn't be interested in reducing their heating and cooling costs by up to 50 percent?" Gardner says.

For more information about how landscape and lawn care professionals whose major customers are commercial businesses can help educate the public about responsible maintenance of valuable green spaces via the purchase these brochures, visit www.projectevergreen.com/products.