Before Stego Industries codified its sustainability efforts under its Stego Footprint project, we already led our industry in green initiatives - both on the projects we supplied our products to and in how we conducted our business operations.
Stego proudly converted its corporate headquarters in sunny San Clemente, Calif. to a 100 percent solar powered facility in 2010. Each year, Stego's solar panels:
- produce approximately 55.7 megawatts of electricity
- offset the equivalent of approximately three acres of trees
- could power approximately 1,150 homes for one day
- have returned 4.7 mW/h into the electricity grid as of June 2014
We also provide a number of offsets and incentives to our employees:
- we began offsetting carbon emissions from all business air travel in 2013
- we offer a vehicle purchase incentive for employees to upgrade their work-use vehicles to more fuel-efficient choices
Stego served as a Pilot Manufacturer in the Health Product Declaration Collaborative (HPD), a customer-led organization committed to the continuous improvement of the building industry's performance through transparency, openness and innovation in the product supply chain. As a pilot project member, Stego collaborated with its suppliers to provide accurate product disclosure, reporting its findings to the HPD Collaborative to help develop an impartial tool for the accurate reporting of product contents and each ingredient's relationship to the bigger picture of human and ecological health.
Stego is also a member of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and we have sponsored the ABC Green Home since the project's inception in 2011.