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Practice What You Preach:
Steps to Becoming Sustainable
Green
Sustainable
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Define Sustainability
Green • Focus on products
• Limited reporting requirements
• Environmental goals often not established
• Social responsibility not included
Sustainable • Focus on operations
• Transparency / public disclosure
• Environmental improvement goals established
• Social responsibility is important
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Define Sustainability 3
Triple Bottom Line
– Financial
– Environment
– Social responsibility
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Why Are You Doing It?
1. Customers asking for it
2. Reducing expenses / driving profits
3. Marketing / driving sales
4. Good business practices
5. “Right thing to do”
6. All of the above
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What Can You Spend
• Part-time person • Dedicated person • Team of people • Dedicated team of people • Hire a consultant • Hire team of consultants • What’s the budget? • What’s the expected ROI?
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4 Key Considerations
1. Customer requirements 2. National & International Standards
A. LEED B. Global Reporting Initiative C. ISO, ULE, Green Seal
3. Boundaries A. Environmental reporting B. Social issues C. Supply chain
4. Employee engagement consideration
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Where to Start 7
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Where to Start
1. Energy 2. Transportation 3. Water 4. Waste & Recycling 5. Internal purchasing 6. Product mix 7. Social equity & community relations
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Where to Start
1. Energy 2. Transportation 3. Water 4. Waste & Recycling 5. Internal purchasing 6. Product mix 7. Social equity & community relations
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Where to Start Energy
• LEED • Energy Star • Carbon Disclosure Project • Review your lease – talk to landlord • Sub-metering • Talk to utility for rebates and
incentives • Energy Services Company (ESCO) • Consider an energy consultant
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Where to Start Transportation
• LEED • EPA SmartWay Program
– Owned vehicles – Employee transportation (work related) – Employees (getting to & from work)
• Talk to vehicle leasing company • Alternative fuels • Hybrid vehicles
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Where to Start Water
• LEED • EPA WaterSense
– Potable water & sewage • Plumbing fixtures • Waterless urinals • Automated flush valves & faucets
– Landscaping – Process related
• Sub-metering
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Where to Start Waste & Recycling
• LEED • EPA WasteWise • Do a waste stream audit
– Solid waste – Recycling
• Talk to haulers • Talk to suppliers • Talk to customers
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Where to Start Internal Purchasing
• LEED • Product areas
– Green cleaning – Office supplies (copy paper, toner, etc.) – Computers, monitors, printers, copiers – Light bulbs – Furniture
• Holiday & special event items
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Where to Start Product Mix
• % green products • % green services
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Where to Start Social Responsibility
• Global Reporting Initiative • ISO 26000
– Training – Hiring – Advancement – Pay – Philanthropy – Volunteerism
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Setting Reduction Goals
• Starts with the baseline • Short-term & long-term goals • Perfection is NOT the goal - get started
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Sustainability is a journey
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Employee Engagement
• Communicate • Communicate • Communicate • Green teams • Feedback
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Reporting
• Internal • External
– Customers – Shareholders
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What’s been accomplished
You can’t manage what
you don’t measure
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Wal-Mart’s efforts in recent years to adopt renewable energy and supply chain
sustainability initiatives is more about the bottom line
than it is about image.
Lee Scott, Chairman Wal-Mart
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