Watch Recording
Host: TOTA & GreenStep
Taking action to reduce your tourism operations carbon footprint is a tremendous opportunity to decrease costs, engage your team, and build your brand as a responsible tourism provider. Measuring your carbon footprint for small and mid-sized businesses is easy with the EcoBase software and guidance from GreenStep.
The Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA) is hosting a webinar with GreenStep to introduce the EcoBase Carbon Accounting software, including how to:
Set up your business unit in EcoBase and enter emissions data
Review emission source activity data and calculations
Report on your business carbon footprint
Identify opportunities for emissions reduction and setting targets
Develop strategies to meet reduction targets
Offset carbon and achieve carbon neutral business operations
About EcoBase Carbon Accounting Software
EcoBase is a carbon accounting and management solution for organizations of all sizes, at all stages of their journey. The software is simple to use and does all of the calculations for you, making it much easier to measure, manage, and reduce your organization's carbon footprint.
Participants of the Thompson Okanagan Biosphere Commitment Program receive a 1-year subscription to EcoBase at no additional charge.
Presented by Angela Nagy, CEO, GreenStep
Angela is a sustainability expert with more than 20 years of experience in project management, business development, marketing, and public relations. She has lived and traveled extensively throughout the US and Canada, working with all levels of business, utilities, as well as various levels of governments, on a variety of engineering, energy efficiency, environmental, and sustainability-related projects.
Angela’s experience also includes politics, and she was elected to Kelowna City Council and appointed as a Regional District Director in 2008, the same year she co-founded GreenStep.
Angela is certified in Organizational GHG Accounting and as a Sustainability Practitioner through The Natural Step.
About GreenStep
GreenStep was founded in 2008 to help organizations tackle a common challenge: owners and managers want to do more to reduce their environmental impacts and be responsible; but with competing priorities, they often lack the time, knowledge, and budget to make meaningful progress.
GreenStep has worked with more than 3,000 businesses and organizations within several sectors, including private, public, non-profit, and academic institutions; in a variety of industries such as tourism and hospitality, retail, professional services, and manufacturing; and with organizations of all sizes, from owner-operated businesses to publicly traded companies.
GreenStep is a Certified B Corporation and is Designated Carbon Neutral with Ostrom Climate. GreenStep is powered by 100% renewable energy with Bullfrog Power and utilizes the EcoBase Carbon Software to continuously measure and improve their carbon footprint.