Boden Plumbing Earns Best Practices Award from the Business Environmental Alliance

Boden Plumbing has earned the Sonoma County Business Environmental Alliance Best Practices Award, which recognizes businesses that best exemplify environmental excellence through sound business practices. The award will be presented March 11 at the Business Environmental Alliance breakfast. Casey will be attending the breakfast at the Hyatt Vineyard Creek in Santa Rosa, along with the fifteen other Sonoma County businesses being honored.

The BEA recognized us for our installation and promotion of water-conservation options with our customers and at our office here in Sonoma.

Our big-ticket item was almost surely our participation in Sonoma County's recent Direct Install Program. The Sonoma County Water Agency has projected that the fixtures we changed out as part of that program will save 4,438,152 gallons, or 13.62 acre feet, per year. These figures represent 11% of the total water savings gained by the program.

We're actually quite proud of these figures. We worked hard to make sure we reached as many people as possible. The program made new low flow toilets extremely affordable for our customers and obviously had the potential for saving the community as a whole a lot of water.

We also participated in the Water Wisdom Workshop in Sonoma, and as part of our ongoing efforts to use resources wisely, we recycle all metal, porcelain, cardboard and paper and have implemented energy-saving measures in our office.

Boden Plumbing is extremely pleased to be recognized by the Sonoma County Business Environmental Alliance for the efforts we've made to 'green' our operations and provide environmentally sustainable products and services to our customers. We don't do these kinds of things for the recognition, but it's good to know environmental practices are valued and those values are shared. We're excited to be involved in what we believe is the future for all good business in California

For more information about BEA or to register for the breakfast, go to www.sonomabea.org.

The other Sonoma Valley business also being honored at the March 11th event is Kunde Wine Estates. You can read a full write-up in the Sonoma Index-Tribune. See: Boden Plumbing, Kunde Wine Estates earn Sonoma County environmental honors