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12 Steps to Sustainability
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by admin.
This report from Kanal Consulting focuses on practical ways that organizations can implement sustainability to improve the bottom line and the environment. To read the full paper, visit KanalConsulting.com.
According to the firm’s Managing Principal Vijay Kanal, “Successful companies have realized that sustainability is a key element of strategy, and are profiting from it. Our focus is on identifying opportunities and helping clients execute on them, and we have seen that when sustainability is tightly integrated with the business it is possible to achieve financial success while helping the environment. This report is a blueprint to help organizations succeed in both dimensions.”
The 12 key points in the report are:
1. Integrate sustainability into the company’s vision, values, or core mission statement.
2. Set goals that are specific, credible, measurable, and normalized for business changes.
3. Treat sustainability projects with the same business case requirements as other projects.
4. Let the CEO and senior executives be the key spokespeople, and demonstrate internal commitment.
5. Establish a strong governance model.
6. Ensure employee engagement.
7. Drive operational efficiencies.
8. Implement technologies and policies to reduce business travel and commuting.
9. Employ product life-cycle analysis to inform new designs.
10. Communicate internally and externally.
11. Partner with the Supply Chain.
12. Engage various stakeholders.
Download the full report, “12 Steps to Sustainability: How Every Company Can Implement Sustainability to Improve the Bottom Line and the Environment,” from KanalConsulting.com.
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Now that’s Green Tea!
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by admin.
Nothing is more wasteful than, er, waste. Companies pay for the raw materials that they don’t use. Then they pay again to have it trucked to the landfill. That’s why zero waste is an exciting idea. Reducing or eliminating waste is not only good for the planet, it’s good for business, as companies like Toyota and Wal-Mart have learned.
Smart companies that pursue zero waste are also taking us closer to an industrial system inspired by nature, where there’s no such thing as garbage. Think about a tree or plant, where this fall’s dead leaves become next spring’s food.
Today’s zero waste story comes from Lipton, the world’s largest tea company. Lipton is a unit of London-based consumer-products giant Unilever (40 billion euros in 2008 revenues), whose brands include Dove soap, Ben & Jerry ice cream, and Hellmann’s mayonnaise. Unilever’s an environmental leader — it helped start the Marine Stewardship Council which certifies the world’s fisheries as sustainable, it’s working with Greenpeace to develop environmentally preferable refrigerants and it led the laundry industry to concentrate detergent and reduce packaging when it came up with Small and Mighty All.
Read More at GreenBiz.com
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Ever heard of an online yard sale?
Posted on 01. Oct, 2009 by admin.
SwapItGreen is an online yard sale without the signs, tables, or travel. List and trade your stuff for trading points and swap your trading points for new stuff. Sell and buy from anyone, negotiate with your trading partner to get a great bargain. Go green by recycling. This is barter in the 21st century! Go to SwapItGreen to make your best deal.
