The focus of the initial challenge research was to catalogue and evaluate the "Top 1,200" businesses headquartered in the U.S. based upon 2008-9 revenue.  The initial research was segmented into three primary challenges; [the] GC1000, Green Accounting Challenge and Green Law Challenge.  Over the past four weeks, our team has been preparing the Green Corporate Challenge which is a supplemental index of additional corporate leaders in key sectors and industries, built one industry at a time.

We have been approached by numerous organizations seeking to add their company to our growing database and provide positive examples of their sustainability programs and corporate websites as part of the challenge.  With great pleasure we are announcing The Green Challenges Open Source Project (GCOSP) permitting all GC Members and GC Leadership Members to add upto five (5) organizations to our database.  This unique opportunity permits all businesses to become part of The Green Challenges regardless of industry and revenue.  

With the open source project we can accomplish two goals.  First, the project permits our network to grow organically through businesses that we would not normally have an opportunity to index as part of our internal efforts.  Second, organizations that have strong sustainability initiatives and websites have the opportunity to earn a GC Grade "A" designation and join the ranks of nearly 400 companies we have already surveyed.

As we continue to evolve the open source project we will alert everyone to updates, changes and announcements about the initiative.  For questions, contact Chris Davis at chris@thegreenchallenges.com.