Going green across the nation: AskPatty.com trains female friendly dealerships and retail businesses to ‘Be Green’

Be Green with AskPatty.com

As a female friendly business, AskPatty.com trains automotive dealerships and retailers to create a safe and comfortable environment where women feel welcome; these businesses are then held to a high level of customer satisfaction for their women consumers. However, AskPatty.com is also an automotive website that recognizes its responsibility to the world around us, encouraging its employees and affiliated dealers and retail businesses to continually strive to reduce their environmental impact.

AskPatty.com’s President and CEO Jody DeVere launched the BE GREEN initiative last year to help affiliated automotive dealerships and retail locations become more environmentally friendly.  As part of their training, AskPatty provides business with the information and tools they need to utilize green marketing and to highlight earth friendly vehicles in their inventory.

AskPatty developed an Earth Friendly Logo that dealers can place on any vehicles in stock that are earth friendly, allowing consumers to easily identify vehicles that qualify for the program.  How are vehicles defined as “Earth Friendly”? Under the Be Green program any vehicles that utilize hybrid gasoline/electric power plants, are powered by clean-burning natural gas, produce the lowest emissions possible thanks to PZEV and ULEV engines, or promise more than 28 miles per gallon qualify as Earth Friendly. The AskPatty BeGreen program also helps dealerships highlight vehicles that they sell that are Earth Friendly.

AskPatty.com also educates its Certified Female Friendly dealers and retail businesses on things they can do to become more environmentally friendly in their day-to-day operations, such as:

• *Using in-store bottle and can recycling bins for guests and employees;
• *Recycle scrap metal, car batteries, tires, and paper;
• *Reduce paper use by storing reports on networks instead of printing, making two-sided copies, and running fewer daily reports;
• *Turn off lights and unplugging electrical items in unused offices;
• *Use compact fluorescent and energy smart bulbs in fixtures wherever possible;
• *Encourage and incentivize ridesharing, mass-transit use, or bicycling/walking to work.

The website features more than a hundred informative articles about green and eco-conscious vehicle technologies, covering everything from hybrid and hydrogen-powered vehicles, to tips you can implement while driving to improve your vehicle’s fuel economy. The informative “Be Green“  page of the site also offers a list of tips you can follow to be more green in your car, including:

• *Keep your tires properly inflated;
• *Observe the speed limit;
• *Relax and avoid hard or “jackrabbit” starts and stops;
• *Reduce excess vehicle weight;
• *Keep your car properly tuned.
• *Check and replace air filters regularly. Replacing a clogged air filter can improve your fuel economy by as much as 10%

Find out more about AskPatty.com’s Be Green efforts at AskPatty.com

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