Alpine Bank

20 YEARS GREEN Alpine Bank Green Team celebrates two decades of conservation An award-winning state leader in environmental stewardship, Alpine Bank celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Green Team in tandem with the 50th anniversary of the company this year. The bank's measurable success of its Green Team includes resource- and energy-saving programs, green philanthropy, community initiatives and an environmental management system (EMS) that has earned the highest global accreditation, known as ISO 14001 certication, year after year. "By placing our focus and attention on ways in which we can reduce, recycle and renew in our day-to-day business, we've created an organization with nearly 900 individuals who embody these principles," said Glen Jammaron, Alpine Bank president. The Green Team began in 2003, was formalized in 2005, and now executes on dozens of programs that seek to reduce or eliminate the bank's carbon footprint. The highlights of the work of the team over 20 years are both high tech and high touch, and consistently tie back to Alpine Bank's intrinsic spirit of generosity: • Since the ENVIRONMENT Loyalty Debit Card launched in 2004, Alpine Bank has donated more than $3 million to Colorado nonprots that work toward environmental sustainability. • Since 2009, every kilowatt-hour of Alpine Banks' electricity has come from renewable sources. The bank even distributes energy back to the grid thanks to the solar photovoltaic panels on its branches in Rie, Silt, Glenwood Springs and Boulder. • Alpine Bank's partnership with the nonprot, PCs for People, resulted in a donation that repurposed more than 400 computers, obsolete by bank standards, into the hands and homes of students who needed them during the pandemic year of 2020. • In 2016, Alpine Bank purchased solar panels in a community solar garden in Summit County, then donated ownership of the panels to help subsidize the energy bills of families in need. To learn more, visit alpinebank.com/green-initiative

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