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About the Clean Air Partners Program
What is the Clean Air Partners Program?
How can I become a Clean Air Partner?
What is the Clean Air Partners Program?
Clean Air Partners assists employers in reducing emissions with a variety of options, while promoting their clean air successes to the community. Clean Air Partners is a program of the CLEAN AIR Force of Central Texas (CAF), which helps in its coordination and marketing. By becoming a Partner, employers volunteer to carry out employee clean air programs and other clean business practices to reduce the emissions that contribute to unhealthy air in our region. Common strategies include employee commute solutions programs (encouraging transit use, vanpooling, carpooling, teleworking, biking, walking, flexible schedules), use of cleaner fleets, clean energy practices (e.g. GreenChoice), low-emission construction or landscaping activities, water conservation practices, and many other activities that can contribute to cleaner air. Employers report their achievements once a year.How the program originated
The CLEAN AIR Force of Central Texas, along with local environmental and business organizations developed the program in January of 2001 after learning the realization of the majority of pollutants that create harmful ground-level ozone are coming from vehicles, both on-road (commuting vehicles) and off-road (lawn, construction and site equipment/vehicles). To get to the source of the problem, the CAF recruited six major employers from the region to charter the program and develop innovative strategies to reduce emissions.
The six original partners were Advanced Micro Devices, Intel, Motorola, Samsung, Solectron and Vignette. There are now over 100 Partners in the 5-county Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Area (Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis and Williamson Counties).Reasons to become a Partner
Perhaps the best reason to be a Partner is because it makes good business sense. Many of the strategies used to reduce emissions will 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.For a list of benefits to becoming a Partner, click JOIN!
Another important reason to join is because all of us contribute to the ozone problem--whether through pollution from commuting tailpipes, from landscaping or construction activities, or from a number of other routine business practices. (For more information on ozone, see the Air Quality page.) Since everyone is at fault, why not be a steward of the community and do your share for cleaner air?
Partner Responsibilities
Participating in the Clean Air Partner Program is simple, with only a few requirements of Partners. To join, Clean Air Partners pledge to make a good faith effort to reduce their ozone-causing emissions by 10% within three years. In addition, Partners report their emission-reducing accomplishments once a year via a user-friendly reporting website.How can I become a Clean Air Partner?
Any Central Texas business, government agency or organization in the 5-county area of Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis and Williamson counties is eligible to join the program.Click JOIN to find out more!