SUSTAINABLE WORKPLACES
Urban Green Lab's Workplaces Division works with businesses, nonprofits, schools, and government offices to implement sustainability education. We help workplaces organize green teams, teach them about sustainability, and connect them to community resources that make a difference. Our goal is to foster a culture of sustainability throughout Nashville-area workplaces.
Why should your business connect with Urban Green Lab's Workplaces division? Sustainability education and practices attract customers, retain great talent, and secure the future of any organization.
Our Programs
Nashville Sustainability Roundtable
The Nashville Sustainability Roundtable is a gathering of professionals who are striving to increase sustainability efforts in their workplaces. In the bi-monthly Roundtable meetings, members have the opportunity to make new connections within the sustainability community, share best practices, and exchange ideas for innovative solutions in the workplace.
Urban Green Lab Certification
Urban Green Lab officially recognizes community institutions -- like schools, businesses, and nonprofits -- as Certified “Urban Green Labs.” A lab is any workplace that proves its commitment to the practice and training of sustainable behaviors and explores new ways for making decisions that better protect our people, profit, and planet.
Urban Green Lab Certification
Urban Green Lab officially recognizes community institutions -- like schools, businesses, and nonprofits -- as Certified “Urban Green Labs.” A lab is any workplace that proves its commitment to the practice and training of sustainable behaviors and explores new ways for making decisions that better protect our people, profit, and planet.
B Tennessee
B Tennessee is a community of purpose-driven businesses and citizens energized by a sustainable future and led by a desire to use business as a force for good. Urban Green Lab serves as a resource for local businesses interested in pursuing B Corp Certification by providing connections that aid in the Certification process.
Workplaces Events
Nashville Sustainability Roundtable: September 21
Join us on Thursday, September 21 for the next Nashville Sustainability Roundtable with The Wond’ry. This event is by invitation only; to join the Roundtable email jacqueline@urbangreenlab.org.
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Nashville Sustainability Roundtable: July 20
Join us on Thursday, July 20 for the next Nashville Sustainability Roundtable with Walk Bike Nashville. This event is by invitation only; to join the Roundtable email jacqueline@urbangreenlab.org.
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BLD Southeast
Join fellow B Corps and mission-driven businesses to learn & connect at the first ever in-person B Leadership Development (BLD) conference in the Southeast. September 21-22, 2023 in Raleigh, NC.
Learn MoreKey Successes
United 614 professionals since the Roundtable began in 2018
Facilitated 19 meetings of the Roundtable
Mobilized an average of 30 workplace representatives to attend each Roundtable meeting
Selected accomplishments since the program started. Updated December 12, 2022.
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Workplaces represented by attendees of the Nashville Sustainability Roundtable, nonprofit and corporate