Green Restaurant Association

The GRA is a national non-profit organization that provides a convenient and cost-effective way for restaurants, manufacturers, distributors, and consumers to become more environmentally responsible. Right away, the GRA developed its environmental guidelines, their Certification standards, and a system to make the process of change both efficient and rewarding for restaurant management and employees. These guidelines, standards and philosophies became the cornerstone of the organization, and with time have continued to grow.mSince then, the GRA has built the worlds largest database of environmental solutions for the restaurant industry; appeared in hundreds of media outlets; consulted some of the worlds largest companies; and currently helps restaurants in the United States and Canada. In 2006, the vision of bringing environmental sustainability front and center to the restaurant industry became a reality when the topic of environmental sustainability began to cover the pages of trade magazines and began to enter into the day to day conversations restaurateurs were having.