Green Car Dealership

While the bulk of eco friendly activities for the automotive industry may rest in the development of eco-friendly automobiles, the dealerships themselves may help play a role in promoting environment friendly practices. Rasmussen Car Dealership can take action on its own to cut down on its environmental footprint.

Use of Recycled/Reusable Materials – The Rasmussen Car Dealership can invest in systems which will allow the dealership to recycle the water it uses to wash cars. Water reclamation systems are available which can collect water from air conditioner condensation and rain gutters for use in non critical services such as the dealership car wash. Moreover, such water reclamation systems may be able to recycle the soapy water from the car wash.  This not only cuts down on the water demands of the dealership but also puts less strain on the environment by reducing the amount of dirty water entering the public waterways.

Apart from recycled water, the dealership may also play a role in recycling cars. Rasmussen Car Dealership may create financial packages to resell or to recycle vehicles traded in by customers. Such programs may help cut down on the amount of materials wasted when used cars have to be discarded out of old age. Additionally, the dealership can help steer public usage of environmentally friendly cars such as hybrid and small city cars by offering attractive financial packages to buyers of these cars.

Explore Transportation Options – Another way that the dealership may reduce its energy footprint is by encouraging their employees to reduce their own transportation energy footprint. The company may encourage carpooling among their employees by incentivizing the behavior. Additionally, the company may promote the use of mass transit by providing mass transit vouchers such as bus and metro passes to their employees as a form of non monetary benefit.

Offer telecommuting schedules – For employees whose presence is not required in the office seven days a week, telecommuting provides a very tantalizing benefit not only to the stay at home employee but also to the firm which can cut down on energy costs thanks to less people in the office. Management should create a workable schedule which will allow employees to work at home for one day every week. Management should make sure that all group activities and meetings are aligned with the telecommuting schedules so as to make sure that the work from home day is being utilized.

The creation of telecommuting schedules may not be enough to create a work from home program for Rasmussen car dealership. The dealership may need to invest in technology to allow workers at home to collaborate with employees working in the office. Employees who qualify for telecommuting should probably have access to a computer and a reliable internet connection at home to make telecommuting work. Rasmussen Car Dealership may choose to sponsor this by subsidizing or financing the costs of such an investment on the part of their employees.

Creation of a Green Team

The implementation of these changes to Rasmussen Car Dealership would be contingent on the development of a Green Team. The Green Team would be responsible for mapping out the plan of action, as well as the actual implementation of the greening of Rasmussen Car Dealership.

The Green Team is also responsible for looking for partners which can help Rasmussen car dealership in its transition to a more eco friendly operation. Programs from the state as well as products from green industries will need to be examined to help choose the best plan of action for Rasmussen car dealership.