Companies to Take Green Day Challenge at Kennesaw Park

The Corporate Green Day Challenge will be held from 9 a.m. to noon today at various locations throughout metro Atlanta, including Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.

The Corporate Green Day Challenge offers an opportunity for employees to experience first-hand the work of EarthShare of Georgia’s environmental member organizations and area parks that “do green” every day in caring for air, land and water.

In 2012, nearly 700 employees from 15 company sponsors participated in the Corporate Green Day Challenge, dedicating a Saturday morning to cleaning up parks and stream banks, planting gardens and mulching trees throughout Atlanta at 12 area locations.

The 2012 Corporate Green Day Challenge award was given to Accenture and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., who worked together with the Atlanta Audubon Society, an EarthShare of Georgia member group, at Constitution Lakes in DeKalb County. Their collaborative efforts brought together a team of 120 volunteers to exchange their suits for work boots and garden gloves, to clean up parks, pull privet and clean streams.

2013 Corporate Green Day Challenge Project Locations

Atlanta Audubon Society at Constitution Lakes
Callaway Gardens
Captain Planet Foundation with NEXT Steps Youth Program
Chastain Park Conservancy
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
Georgia Conservancy at Sweetwater State Park
Georgia Wildlife Federation- Mill Creek Nature Preserve
Keep North Fulton Beautiful
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
Kittredge Park
Park Pride
Trees Atlanta with Atlanta Beltline Partnership
The Wylde Center

2013 Corporate Green Day Challenge Teams 

Accenture
AutoTrader.com
Bank of America 
Cox Enterprises
Delta Air Lines
Interface
Kaiser Permanente
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
King & Spalding
Mohawk Group
NewFields
Novelis
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Wells Fargo

Editor's note: This was written by EarthShare of Georgia.