by Rebecca Walker — July 20, 2009—Green Globe International, the worldwide owner of the Green Globe brand, has announced a preliminary agreement in the form of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Green Seal, a top independent eco-label in the United States, under which the two brands will explore opportunities to collaborate to promote sustainability on a global scale.
The MoU’s purpose is to express the mutual interests of Green Globe International and Green Seal in sustainability certification and to outline potential areas of collaboration. Comparing standards and certification systems; mutual recognition; and collaboration and partnership opportunities will be explored with the goal of fulfilling the missions of each organization.
Green Seal has been developing environmental standards since 1989. These environmental standards include requirements to reduce, to the extent technologically and economically feasible, the environmental and health impacts associated with services and the manufacture, use, and end-of-life or life cycle of products. Set on a category-by-category basis, Green Seal’s environmental standards focus on significant opportunities to reduce a product or service’s environmental impact.
Green Seal has standards for cleaning products and services, building products, lodging properties, paper products, and many other categories. Green Seal is also actively developing new standards.
For more information, see the Green Seal and Green Globe International Web sites.
