Energy Star Mark website, Natural Resources Canada Office of Energy Efficiency
The ENERGY STAR mark identifies products (e.g., major household appliances, home heating or cooling equipment, consumer electronics, office equipment or certain lighting and signage products) that are among the top energy performers on the market.
Environmental Choice Program
“The Environmental Choice Program (ECP), Environment Canada's ecolabelling program, provides a market incentive to manufacturers and suppliers of environmentally preferable products and services, and thereby helps consumers identify products and services that are less harmful to the environment.�
Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program
"The Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program provides validation and independent verification of environmental technology performance claims. This initiative has been developed to promote the commercialization of new environmental technologies into the market place and thus provide industry with a tool to address environmental challenges efficiently, effectively and economically."
Global Ecolabelling Network
Green Dot North America Website
Green Seal (USA)
"Green Seal is an independent, non-profit organization that strives to achieve a healthier and cleaner environment by identifying and promoting products and services that cause less toxic pollution and waste, conserve resources and habitats, and minimize global warming and ozone depletion."
Greenhouse Gas Technology Center
"An Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Organization sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development"
Scientific Certification Systems (SCS)
"SCS was established in 1984 as the nation's (USA) first third-party certifier for testing pesticide residues in fresh produce. In the past 18 years, the company has evolved to become a certifier of multiple facets of the food industry and of the environmentally sound management of forests, marine habitats, and a wide variety of manufacturing-related businesses."
List of International Standards Organizations
Hotel Programs
Audubon Green Leaf Eco-Rating Program
The Hotel Association of Canada's (HAC) Ecommodation Rating Program
"This graduated rating system is designed to recognize hotels, motels and resorts that are committed to improving their fiscal and environmental performances."
Marinas
Clean Marine Green Leaf Eco-Rating Program
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