Reduce your Office Energy Consumption

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), “Energy efficiency offers a powerful and cost-effective tool for achieving a sustainable energy future. Improvements in energy efficiency can reduce the need for investment in energy infrastructure, cut fuel costs, increase competitiveness and improve consumer welfare. Environmental benefits can also be achieved by the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions and local air pollution.”

A small business resource immediately available to business is energy efficiency in your workplace.  As a sustainability consultant working with small businesses, I advise clients on the cost savings of energy efficiency.

• As a professional consultant, I suggest, first establishing a baseline of consumption for benchmarking efforts.  Areas to include: electricity, heating, water, waste, travel, and shipping. 
• Next, create an energy policy for the business.  Using your consumption information, you may want to identify areas of improvement.  Most think of infrastructure improvements, but consider operational and culture improvements as well.  Also, consider the source of energy consumed: is it from renewable sources? Mixed? Wind?
• Implement behavior and usage modifications.  For instance, are devices connected to a power strip and unplugged at the end of the day?  Is your office leveraging technology to go paperless? Is there an incentive to carpool or bike to work? 
• Measure and monitor your progress.

Energy efficient offices reduce energy consumption.  They also educate and inform workers of best practices in reducing energy consumption that can be applied at home and in the community.  Energy efficient businesses expand eco awareness and sustainability concepts from the workplace into the community for even greater energy savings.

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What Job Seekers want in a Green Employer

Today’s employees are looking for more than just the ‘green’ in their paycheck.  A new generation of job-seekers is expecting more from perspective employers.

Employees Want Growth Opportunities: Young people have always wanted to start on career paths with growth opportunities, and the opportunities related to ‘Green Jobs’ are growing exponentially.

Employees Want to Make a Difference: A MonsterTRACK study states that 80 percent of “young professionals” are interested in a career that makes a positive impact on the environment, and 92 percent prefer to work for a company that is ‘green’, environmentally friendly, or has some general eco awareness.

Employees Seek Energy-Conscious Employers: According to a new poll by Mortgage Lenders Network USA (MLN), 94 percent of Americans prefer to work in a building that is designed to be energy efficient and ecologically sound, recognizing LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council as a common standard.

Employees Prefer Employers that offer Telecommuting: The necessity to physically change locations in order to accomplish a task has recently been challenged by employee value for energy conservation, environment impacts, family values, and other issues.

Employees Want Employers to Walk the Talk: In Portland, Oregon, your company isn’t really green unless you’ve got a bike cage in the parking structure, a compost bin in the lunchroom, fume-free paint on the walls, and have recycled glass on the lobby front desk.

Employees Gravitate towards a Common Sustainable Goals: Organizations that are creating business sustainability through an elevated sense of teamwork and establishing an emotional tie between the employee and the organization direction are attracting top talent.

In our sustainability consulting, Taiga Company has observed many organizations have already responded to this and other business challenges, by creating workplaces that are more appealing to the changing needs of job-seekers.  Companies are focusing on more than just improving productivity; business leaders aim to build eco awareness into a strong, vibrant organizational culture.

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Of the Banks, by the Banks, for the Banks…

So much for democracy…

There isn’t even democracy among bankers these days. Community and regional banks are being shuttered around the country by the FDIC to the tune of 218 since 2007. Any bank that levered more than its fair share of capital, suffered losses due to bad subprime, and generally managed their money poorly dies a quick painful death as it is swallowed up by the government “safe banking” machine.

Any bank that is except for the Supersized Big Bailout Six…

Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs - these banks live in a different universe than mere mortals. Why? Because of the buzz phrase you have heard a lot of lately. They are simply “too-big-to-fail.”

When a bank is insolvent, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created by the Banking Act of 1933 not only has the right, but the legal duty to take over the bank, divide its assets, investigate its books, and make sure it is open for depositors on the next business day.

But the Big Six operate under a different financial system than the rest of America. Neither you nor I are able to put our debts “off balance sheet.” We are not able to borrow from the government unlimited amounts of mulah at zero percent interest. We are not able to keep our jobs after destroying our firms. We are not able to pay ourselves bonuses, buy Leer jets, take spa vacations, and golf on Trump’s course on government dollars.

Only the Big Six are “legally” allowed to get away with the economic murder of 10 million unemployed and desperate citizens and 8 million more newly homeless American families. Only the Big Six are able to walk away scot free from the greatest bank robbery in the course of human history.

Frustrated? Yup, me too. As Congress deliberates financial reform, their goal should be to create one set of laws for all 300 million Americans.

Currently, “ordinary” America, the too-small-to-save crowd, lives under a democratic capitalist system where economic failure is not met with pots and pots of government guarantees and cash. The Supersized Big Bailout Six Banks have created an elite super class that is bound by different standards – a world of no laws, a veritable economic anarchy reminiscent of Old World Kings. Theirs is a government sanctioned free-for-all-style monopoly on the nation’s wealth – a system that MIT economist Simon Johnson calls an “oligarchy.”

The Big Six are capitalist when it comes to profits and socialist when it comes to losses. Wow! What a world it would be for any of us if we could have some poor schmuck like you take over my debts for me. I can just keep the good stuff. Any takers?

Givers and Takers

Apparently, yes there are a lot of takers. According to the 2000 census, there are 300 million of them in the United States alone. That is the number of suckers on the dole for the Supersized Big Bailout Six. Not only is this one-sided undemocratic banking system legal, it has been orchestrated and executed by two presidents (one Republican and one Democrat), their administrations and two Congresses of the United States of America.

American democracy is characterized by equality throughout all economic classes, and not intended to support any privileged class of people apart from the common public.

Yet the financial deregulation of the past two decades, officially sanctioned by the monumental bailouts that began in early 2008 and continue to this day, have created a two-tiered system of economic inequality that favors the Big Six over everyone else.

So how did we become a society where all the rights and privileges are vested in the top management of the Biggest and Baddest Six American Banks?

Banks of our Fathers

The fight between citizen-centric Thomas Jefferson and banker-centric Alexander Hamilton echoed the current economic battle we continue to wage.

Jeffersonian economists warned vigorously against putting America’s financial power into the hands of a few select bankers exactly the way the government has done since 2008. As the nation’s “too-big-to-fail” banks were pulled back from the brink of economic abyss, the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury solution to the problem was to make these banks bigger.

While Washington Mutual, the largest bank failure in U.S. history, crumbled to its knees due to flagrantly irresponsible lending practices, JPMorgan Chase was allowed to acquire WaMu at a fraction of its value. The too-big-to-fail JPM had already benefited from the government “sale” of the fifth largest global investment bank Bear Stearns for a remarkable $2 a share. This sale price was accompanied by a taxpayer infusion of $30bn for JPM’s generous takeover of Bear along with the ability to leave Bear’s toxic assets in the hands of the Feds.

Bank of America with billions of subprime debts of its own happily acquired one of the great cowboy banks, toxic debt king, Merrill Lynch. With this “acquisition” they received $20bn for their trouble on top of the initial TARP $25bn. Additionally, they were pledged $118bn in toxic debt guarantees. (Translation: the U.S. government took over their defaulting assets at taxpayer expense.)

In the quest for financial stability, Bank of America was encouraged to absorb the blatantly unethical Countrywide Home Mortgage. Wells Fargo, one of the largest three banks in the nation, was urged with government billions to swallow up “Was there a loan it didn’t like?” Wachovia Bank.

The U.S. government had created three global behemoths who are substantially larger after the crisis than they were before.

Absolute Hubris

We know that humans are prone to “absolute power corrupting absolutely.” Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank (the fourth largest U.S. bank) now hold absolute power over the majority of the nation’s mortgages.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, Goldman Sachs’ chief financial officer David Viniar was busy telling the industry that the “mortgage servicing businesses was critical for firms wanting to profit from the distressed mortgage market.” GS and fellow future bank holding company Morgan Stanley scooped up predatory lenders left and right only months before their own toxic debt bailouts.

These days, the Big Six are well positioned in the distressed markets, especially since they created them and enjoy government backing for their predatory efforts. They sink their tentacles into every distressed American home loan with glee. After all, they don’t have to worry about things like losing their job, income or investments. Uncle Sam, you, and I are taking the bullet for them.

All the while the Big Six pretend to be doing their “best” to modify contracts. To date only 200,000 mortgages of the millions at issue have been modified. Millions of homes continue to be foreclosed by the Big Bailout Six every day.

“Like all loans, mortgage contracts are based on a promise to repay money borrowed,” was the pearl of wisdom presented to the House Financial Service Committee by David Lowman, head of JPMorgan Chase home-lending business.

What Lowman really means to say is that if you are an ordinary human and not one of the Supersized Big Bailout Six you have to follow policies from which the banks themselves are exempt.

It seems F Scott Fitzgerald was on to something…

“If we rewrite the mortgage contract retroactively to restore equity to any mortgage borrower because the value of his or her home declined, what responsible lender will take the equity risk of financing mortgages in the future? What responsible regulator would want lenders to take that risk?”

Indeed.

Uh, excuse me, Mr. Lowman, but your concern for responsible lending and responsible regulators does seem… I mean under the circumstances, a bit of an oxymoron.

If too-big-to-fail JPMorgan Chase, fire-sale subprime trading wing Bear Stearns and the irrationally criminal Washington Mutual lenders hadn’t tanked the markets along with the rest of the Supersized Big Six, we wouldn’t be debating this. The irony of ironies is that it is precisely due to the irresponsible behavior of the Big Six and their regulators that we have the need for home-loan modification in the first place.

So much for justice and fair play. Hail to monumental hubris and hypocrisy!

Okay, calm down girl. Get a hold of yourself. This isn’t the first time in history that the perpetrators of crimes blamed the victims for those crimes. Remember Rome circa Year Zero of Our Lord? Remember the Holocaust?

The list goes on. Back to the beginning…

Economic Civil War

Eleven score and thirteen years ago “our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men (and women) are created equal.”

Okay that was a good start…

Now we are engaged in a great civil war between the have and have nots, the big banks and local banks, the big “swinging dick” mortgage companies and small struggling homeowners, the politicians, lobbyists, and bankers pulling the strings versus the common interests of the taxpaying population – testing whether this nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated to the ideal of democracy and equality, can long endure.

We are met on a great battlefield of economics. We have come to debate this in the halls of our legislature in the hope that the democracy created by and fought for by our forefathers and mothers should be true to its original vision of equality and justice for all Americans.

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this now at this time as the home foreclosure and jobless rates escalate, as small businesses continue to be shuttered, as families and neighborhoods are forced to split apart in the struggle to financially survive.

It is for us, the economic survivors of the Great Recession, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which our founders devoted their lives to and have thus far so nobly advanced. It is for us, those who are left standing, to help those who have fallen and suffer at the tyranny of the Big Bailout Six. Ordinary America should not be forced to lose their family homes, jobs, and livelihoods due to the irresponsible lending and market manipulations of the Big Bailout Six. We must right this great wrong.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task of reforming our financial system that remains before us – that from this great duty we increase our devotion and highly resolve that those honored ancestors who fought for freedom from the banking elite and private interests of a small group of privileged money men shall not have fought in vain.

That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom from the tyranny of the Big Bailout Six and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth and be replaced by government “of the banks, by the banks, for the banks.”

In the purity and sanctity of American Democracy, we trust and pray. May our nation rise once again to embody its promise of equality and unchain the millions of wretched souls who remain enslaved by the hubris and hypocrisy of the Big Bailout Six.

Monika Mitchell - Executive Director    editor@goodb.net

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Earth Day Career Special: An Interview with Seventh Generation CEO Jeffrey Hollender

Today we’re celebrating two triumphs. One, of course, is Earth Day’s 40th anniversary. And to commemorate the day, here is the final chapter of the lineup we prepared leading to today. To refresh, last week, I discussed why this year Earth Day is important for your career beyond just recycling.

And I left you with a thought: This year, as we go about our day on April 22, 2010, think about two key game changers, which will soon envelope our lives. 1) That sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line (People, Planet, Profit) as a way of thinking, whether you are strategizing new products and services, or making decisions of what company to work in, is inevitable to pervade our career life; and 2) The green job market, while requiring technical skills for some very specific jobs, remains accessible to all professional backgrounds and skill sets.

I also spoke to the Chief Sustainability Officer at EMC, Kathrin Winkler who discussed her challenges, how she satisfies her skeptics and her mission & vision for the technology giant, as well as the broad spectrum of Corporate Sustainability. I then expanded the dialogue to Lavinia Weissman, a thought leader on sustainability and a leadership coach, who discussed her view of Kathrin Winkler as a leader, and offered the academic perspective to practicing CSR.

Late last week, I reviewed Jeffrey Hollender’s latest book, The Responsibility Revolution, where I asked: Are you a Willing Outlier in a Changing Corporate Consciousness? And now, finally, culminating the lineup, is my chat with the author himself. We touched on a broad palette of questions, including his latest book, Seventh Generation, the company he founded based on responsible business practices at a time when no one cared or knew what that even meant, CSR as an academic field of study and his vision for the movement. Below are some of the highlights from our discussion.

The Responsibility Revolution

This book was a challenge to say, “Hey, we’re not doing good enough, and in many cases we’re failing to fulfill our responsibility. That it’s time for a revolution, and if not now, it may very well be too late to change the trajectory of many challenges we’re facing, whether it’s global climate change, fresh water, inequity between rich and poor, etc.,” and rather than focus the book on what’s wrong, we tried to be encouraging and more uplifting by telling stories of companies that are doing things right.

The CSR movement

The challenge we face is that corporate responsibility has yet to be embraced in a holistic systemic fashion. [We end up with] highly compartmentalized programs and initiatives, that in many respects don’t mitigate the continued negative impacts that business has. [For example,] Toyota makes a car like the Prius that is great from an environmental perspective, and then they go and lobby against higher mileage standards in California. They are then taking the position that yes, we want to reap the benefits of selling a green car, but we don’t want the auto industry as a whole to become more efficient and responsible. And this is symptomatic of what we [are] seeing in the market place.

Terminology: “Corporate Social Responsibility”, “Corporate Responsibility” or “Corporate Sustainability”?

First of all, we try to remove the “S” from CSR whenever we speak about it, because this is not a social or an environmental issue. Corporate responsibility has to embrace holistically its impact and responsibility. The only concern I have about sustainability is that like adding the “social” to CSR, it tends to be viewed through an environmental lens, rather than a holistic lens. Sustainability really is a holistic systemic concept, but that’s not how most people understand it. So I say corporate responsibility, because at least, I’m not signaling that it is about social issues or just environmental issues.

CSR & the Oil industry: An Impossible paradox?

…we have to start looking at more aggressive changes to the tax and regulatory structure that will begin to incentivize the right kind of business industry. China is a great example. China invests as much money in alternative energy in one month, as the U.S. does in one year. They are investing at twelve times the rate that we are. And that will result in an accelerated change in the development of their industrial sector.

Government Regulation

[If] financial reporting is mandatory for all businesses, social and environmental reporting should also be mandatory.

Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Index

I recently spoke on a panel with the president of Wal-Mart Canada and was extremely impressed with the passion and commitment that the management team has, and the number of initiatives that they’re working on that they have yet to share publicly. I find that encouraging, and not just because they’re such a large company, but because of the influence they have over other companies.

Can Industries like Banking, Consulting & Law Ever Adopt Responsible Business Practices?

Unfortunately, they escape public view and thus can’t be impacted by the same pressure that comes from consumers and NPOs, and the hope is that responsible businesses, whether they’re a Seventh Generation or a Wal-Mart, will hold their business partners to the same standard as they hold businesses that provide them with products that are sold to consumers.

CSR: Will I get a job after an MBA in Sustainability?

We need to gather the collective voices of small and medium-sized businesses to counter the dominant voice that a handful of multinational corporations add to the chamber of commerce. That preserves an economy that is disconnected from what we need to make America successful and competitive in the future. Also, when we write job descriptions and incentive plans, sustainability metrics and objectives have to be baked into them so that people understand that a company is serious about ensuring that people focus on the issues. Sustainability is best practiced by integrating all perspectives and understanding how they function as a system.

Top 3 CSR concerns

Lack of real transparency…the compartmentalized approach to CSR…and absence of an understanding of a systems-based holistic way of thinking.

Seventh Generation

We look at responsibility and sustainability as something that must first be practiced internally, before it can be practiced externally with any authenticity. A green product does not make for a green company and a responsible product does not make for a responsible company. So the holistic look that we want to aspire to and apply to our products, we also try to apply to our internal corporate culture.

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Read the complete interview: “Take the ‘S’ out of CSR”: Jeffrey Hollender On What’s Ahead for The Way We do Business

And finally, remember I mentioned that we’re celebrating two triumphs today? Well, the second one is personal, yet relevant. This is our 300th post on In Good Company, which for me, is recognition of the growing importance–and necessity–of adopting responsible business practices and a way of thinking. So, go ahead, add to the discussion. What are you doing to mark Earth Day? Do you see sustainability played out differently at your company, if at all? Weigh in by leaving a comment, emailing In Good Company or connect with me on Twitter @VaultCSR!

 

Aman Singh is the CSR Editor at Vault.com, where she focuses on how corporate diversity practices and sustainability translate into recruitment and strategic development. Her blog, In Good Company, discusses on many of these issues.

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Business Sustainability: Promoting Innovation

Does your company have the right structures in place to promote eco awareness and foster innovation?  Ask your key stakeholders.

The pursuit of business sustainability does not have to come from any one source.  It can generate from within your own company at the ground level, from the customers you service, or your suppliers.  Often employees have the information and ideas to make a significant but are limited by the structures of the organization.  One key to success is to create a corporate culture that encourages and rewards innovation at all levels internal to the  organization as well as external to the company.

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development poses 4 questions in the innovation process to ensure success:

•    How can we ensure sustainability is part of the creative process?
•    How can we ensure that sustainability considerations are part of the management of a development process?
•    When and how can external viewpoints enrich the creative and development process?
•    What processes are going to leverage the value of our intellectual capital?

An open innovation approach to business sustainability offers stakeholders the opportunity to become engaged in the future of a business.  Recognizing that key stakeholders have a vested interest the success of the company, creates openness to new ideas that promote business success. 

Enabled by the right structure, stakeholder generated innovation can be the company’s greatest asset for change. 

•    Top level support for an open innovation culture.
•    A consistent management approach that promotes stakeholder  engagement.
•    Open and consistent communication of business sustainability goals.
•    Cohesive policies and procedures that clearly define incentives.

Taiga Company works with available small business resources to help your business capture its sustainable innovation.

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UPS Airline Pilot Named Winner Of Top Global Service Award

(3BLMedia/theCSRfeed) ATLANTA, GA – April 21, 2010 – UPS (NYSE: UPS) has awarded Paul Warrington of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., the Jim Casey Community Service Award, the company’s top honor worldwide for community service. Warrington, an assistant chief pilot at the UPS Airlines, was recognized for his long-standing commitment to the impoverished and underserved people of Cambodia.         

 For the past seven years, Warrington and his wife have made regular trips to Cambodia to help improve the lives of residents by donating supplies and providing education on water purification methods and disease control. During the last four years, Warrington and his wife have led numerous mission trips and together, their teams have completed more than 12,000 volunteer hours.

The Jim Casey Community Service Award winner is chosen annually from nominations solicited from UPS’s global workforce of more than 400,000 employees. The Casey Award was created to recognize outstanding community service, a hallmark of UPS’s corporate legacy and commitment to social responsibility.
 
Warrington’s dedication to community service is evident in local communities here in the U.S. as well as overseas. He has worked with the Agape House, a California shelter for women and children, as well as helped relocate a Somalian refugee family to Kentucky (the headquarters of UPS’s global air operations). For these community service efforts, Warrington also has been awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award by President Barack Obama.
 
“Success is not about what you gain or accomplish in life,” says Warrington, “It’s what you do to improve the lives of others that really matters. I count myself considerably blessed to be able to help others and am honored to use my talents and gifts to make a difference.”
 
“Paul’s dedication to helping those in need is remarkable and a wonderful example of how to answer the call to service,” observed UPS Chairman and CEO Scott Davis. “We recognize at UPS that volunteerism helps make us a stronger and more successful company. Paul’s community involvement is an inspiration to us all.”
 
Founded in 1951 and based in Atlanta, Ga., The UPS Foundation’s major areas of focus include community safety, nonprofit effectiveness, economic and global literacy, environmental sustainability and diversity. The UPS Foundation pursues these initiatives by identifying specific projects where its support can help produce a measurable social impact. In 2009, The UPS Foundation donated more than $43 million US to charitable organizations worldwide. Visit community.ups.com for more information about UPS’s community involvement.
 
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Volcanoes, Business, and Sustainability

Funny thing about the planet – we often forget that it is much bigger than we are and often has a mind of its own. Take, for example, the chaos being created by the volcanic ash cloud over Europe this week.

The recent eruptions of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajoekull volcano are disrupting business systems on a global scale. We have been reminded once again of nature’s brute force and primordial beauty. The continuing volcanic ash cloud is having holistic and systematic repercussions.  Starting with air travel disruption, the impact is now ricocheting across international business and global supply chains.

“BMW in Germany and Nissan and Japan have both temporarily shut down plants due to supply chain disruption. . . Kenya, which exports 1,000 tons a day of fresh goods, threw away 10 million flowers, mostly roses, since the eruption began April 14 . . . One Boeing 747 with 110 tons of fish destined for Europe sat on the tarmac in the Middle East, among some 2,000 tons of other disrupted shipments.” Associated Press

What will happen if the volcano repeats it’s last (1821) eruption cycle of on-and-off spewing of ash for 13 months?
What impact will it have on the long-term viability and sustainability of companies in the region and around the world?

Arthur Max and fellow reporters of the Associated Press highlight some of the potential ramifications: a devastated tourist industry resulting in 1-2% drop in GDP; higher costs for everything; resetting of Europe’s economic recover to zero or worse; tightening of credit; crowding of train, road, and ship transport lanes; reduced out-of-season produce forcing people to re-think local; businesses forced to improvise; and continuous instability of the global supply chain.

Will any of these issues impact your business?


What’s your company’s contingency plan?


What’s your company’s longer term sustainability plan?

Sustainability all to often is still thought of in limited and quantifiable terms of energy savings, green house gas, and short-to-mid-term economic return. Sustainability is so much bigger than that.

Most global supply chains are one major natural/social/economic disaster away from disrupting and/or crippling a business. In the past four months alone magnitude 6.8-8.8 point earthquakes have disrupted and/or crippled infrastructures in Haiti, Chile, Mexico, Indonesia, China, and the Solomon Islands.

While businesses can’t account for every potential systematic disaster (natural or man-made), they can however develop strategies to flex their supply chains and internal processes not to be crippled by the disaster. This is where sustainability becomes a broader concept than just CO2 computations and energy savings. Sustainability strategy recognizes the integrated nature of business and the systems in which it operates (environmental, economic, social, and cultural).

Sustainability is about increasing short-term and long-term profitability and viability by holistically managing the economic, social, environmental, and cultural risks and opportunities.

Sustainability thinking needs to be a whole brain activity (see Daniel Pink’sWhole New Mind), one where the long term systematic strategic thinking is blended with the short term tactical approaches. It is not an either-or concept. Sustainability is a both-and proposition.

Companies that understand the holistic nature of sustainability not only embed systematic thinking into their ongoing strategy, but also realize the ever-changing circumstances of the systems we work in whether they are social, economic, cultural, or environmental. Integrating the risks and opportunities related to sustainability into your business strategy comes from recognizing the integrated nature and ever-fluctuating systematic impacts of economic, environmental, social, and cultural systems in which your business operates in day-to-day and long term.

How strategic are your sustainability efforts?


How integrated are they into the fundamental makeup of your company?


Is sustainability represented at the C-Suite and/or board level?

Sustainability isn’t a trend. It is a fundamental way of doing business in the 21st century that recognizes the integrated nature of business and the systems in which it operates.

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Opportunity Sustainability℠ is a Midwest-based sustainability and corporate responsibility consulting firm specializing in green innovation and seeing opportunities where others see burdens. Matthew Rochte LEED AP, an experienced, operations-based sustainability consultant, works with company management to navigate and realize the opportunities in taking their company green and growing sustainably.

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