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A scene from our travels with a visiting customer in California. We travel the globe to help make our clients and customers successful! By contacting CDS Worldwide, you can have an experienced expert on your team quickly and easily. For companies who have little or no international market share, who either don't know how to begin...or wish to improve their existing marketing efforts internationally, CDS Worldwide is the answer! We partner with our clients to recognize their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises into high performing organizations. Our customized approach combines deep insight into the capabilities of companies and their targeted international markets. In close collaboration at all levels of a client's organization, this focus ensures that our clients achieve sustainable competitive advantage, build more capable organizations, and secure lasting results. Companies like Bay West Paper Company, Claire Aerosols, Continental Plastics, GOJO Industries, Nilodor Incorporated, Wausau Paper Corporation (and many more) have greatly benefited from our services... and you can too.

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CDS Worldwide Green Initiatives
In addition to helping companies globally market products that enhance human health and foster a transition toward sustainability, CDS Worldwide is committed to encouraging and sustaining an environmentally-friendly workplace through employee programs, waste reduction, and an environmentally responsible business approach. This is highly evident through the significant contributions we have made to the environment shown below.

LEED-EB Gold Certification

In order to set corporate environmental goals and benchmark our headquarters building's performance; we use a proven industry framework known as the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED® certification program. As a true sign of our dedicated focus on the environment, our headquarters has been awarded the prestigious USGBC's LEED®-EB Gold designation - which comprises our office, warehouse and parking complex located in South San Francisco, California. LEED certification for Existing Buildings was developed and is administered by the USGBC to address whole-building cleaning and maintenance issues (including chemical use), recycling programs, exterior maintenance programs, and building system upgrades.

Low energy-use lighting

In addition to our focus on creating a healthy work environment, we pursue design and operational strategies that reduce energy use. We make every effort to heat, cool and light our offices—and power our computers—with the minimum amount of energy needed, purchase Energy Star rated office equipment, and use sophisticated building control technologies to ensure systems are on only when we need them.

In our office and warehouse, we use special linear fluorescent fixtures in all main work areas throughout the building.  We have found these to not only be extremely energy efficient, but they also provide a more even distribution of light where needed. Occupancy light sensors are used in our washrooms, our showroom and throughout our warehouse to avoid having the lights on all the time, minimizing energy consumption. Finally, large windows and skylights provide substantial daylight wherever possible, so that fewer lights have to be used.

A photo of the 36.3 KW solar photovoltaic power generation system on the rooftop of CDS Worldwide's headquarters. CDS Worldwide is a proponent of green organizations worldwide and actively seeks to expand its own sustainable practices. As a valuable partner of all its clients, CDS Worldwide joins in their efforts to be socially, fiscally and environmentally responsible. CDS Worldwide is an experienced team of experts that works closely with its clients and customers worldwide. For companies who have little or no international market share, who either don't know how to begin...or wish to improve their existing marketing efforts internationally, CDS Worldwide is the answer! We partner with our clients to recognize their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises into high performing organizations. Our customized approach combines deep insight into the capabilities of companies and their targeted international markets. In close collaboration at all levels of a client's organization, this focus ensures that our clients achieve sustainable competitive advantage, build more capable organizations, and secure lasting results. Companies like Bay West Paper Company, Claire Aerosols, Continental Plastics, GOJO Industries, Nilodor Incorporated, Wausau Paper Corporation (and many more) have greatly benefited from our services... and you can too.
Solar Electric Power Generation System

Unique to the business of global consulting, an advanced 36.74 kW DC solar PV electric generation system sits atop the roof of our worldwide headquarters in South San Francisco, California and generates in excess of 100% of our annual consumption of electricity. The system consists of 162 solar modules on our roof. This upgrade to our headquarters eliminates approximately 40 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually and is the carbon dioxide equivalent of planting over 200 trees each year. In addition, our solar power generation system will avoid producing other pollutants created by conventional energy generation including soot, mercury, NOx and Sox.

ChargePoint Networked Charging Station

One day in the future, many of us believe that we might all drive around in electric cars and gas pumps will be replaced by clean charging stations. Recognizing this rapidly approaching change in transportation, CDS Worldwide installed and activated one of the first networked ChargePoint Charging Stations in the parking lot of our South San Francisco headquarters.

We believe it is important for our company to take the first step to help create an electric vehicle infrastructure within our industry and region. This is another way we hope we might be able to help fulfill our commitment to lead the industry in environmentally friendly practices.

Our charging station was manufactured by Coulomb Technologies, a leader in electric vehicle charging solutions and has stations located worldwide. The Coulomb Technologies-run site displays charging stations on a Google Map, with a colored pin letting you know in real-time whether someone is currently topping off their Tesla. If you're the type with foresight -- you did buy an electric car, after all -- you can schedule some quality time with an outlet on the site using your ChargePass card online. Our charging station is currently available for the use of our employees, as well as for the use of clients and customers who visit us from around the world.

Reduced Water Use

At CDS Worldwide, our bathrooms use low water use fixtures to reduce water consumption in sinks, toilets and urinals. Our landscaping has been designed for low-water-use by grouping plants according to their water needs, using native plants together with low-water-use plants from Australia and New Zealand, and by the use of efficient irrigation systems that schedule irrigation wisely.

A Very Green Work Environment
Our work environment is full of things that encourage our employees to be more environmentally-friendly. For instance, we have eliminated all bottled water and replaced it with a water filtration system. We also recycle everything we can. Some of these items include paper, cardboard, newspaper, plastic, aluminum and even used ink cartridges.

Sustainable Vendors

When considering the products we consume in the course of conducting our business, CDS Worldwide strives to use sustainable vendors whenever possible.

Enhancing Success Worldwide

We aim to do this by helping our clients build capabilities that mobilize their organization. We create sustainable competitive advantage by helping develop distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in performance. Bottom line - we are committed to helping our clients' organizations become much stronger than when we first arrive.