Sustainable Enterprise
Imagine a sustainable business as a business that increases its profits, reduces its risks, and reduces its costs. Now imagine thousands of businesses, from small start-ups to industry giants, doing just that, with thousands more on the way. That’s what’s happening in the emerging new energy economy, which is bringing with it a whole new era for business.
As such, the first section of Sustainable Enterprise deals with introducing some of the changes on the horizon, or already underway. You’ll read about energy efficiency and climate protection programs, which can offer better access to insurance, stronger management of risk, and the chance to evolve alongside higher carbon costs. You’ll also read about icebergs of value, which can help smart companies capture profitable, and often overlooked, opportunities.
Many brands and businesses are finding a portfolio approach to brands and businesses essential for the success of a sustainable operation. You’ll read about that in papers that also discuss short-term and long-term goals and get you thinking about entire value chains, not just sales numbers and finished products as they leave the store shelf.
Given the challenges of attracting and retaining talented employees and sustainable customers, a competitive advantage is crucial. The purest form of reaching that advantage could well come from making sustainability everybody’s job.
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White Paper
By Georges Dyer & Michelle McKay | Aedi Group
There is an explosion of awareness and interest in sustainability among college students and young professionals today, and a surge in demand for careers that are in alignment with personal values of ...
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White Paper
By Marsha Willard | AXIS Performance Advisors, Inc
Years ago one state's environmental protection agency was undertaking a major sustainability initiative. Its staff was passionate about the environment; many members were highly educated environment...
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White Paper
By Kyle Cahill / Environmental Defense Fund
Leading companies know it: “Business as usual” is changing. Customers, consumers and shareholders often want companies to address social and environmental concerns. At the same time, man...
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White Paper
By L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism Solutions
Sir Nicholas Stern and Bill Clinton both have it right. Global climate change has been our greatest market failure. Now it's our greatest market opportunity. Capturing this will require investment, ...
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White Paper
By Andrew Winston | Co-Author of Green to Gold
How do companies create value? There really are only so many ways. Borrowing from strategy guru Michael Porter's work and tweaking it a bit for the environmental age, there are four big buckets of v...
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White Paper
By Jay Carlis / Community Energy
The conversation about climate change has taken a dramatic shift recently. We are no longer debating whether or not rising greenhouse gases are causing significant ecological changes. The focus has sh...
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Case Study
By Walter Stahel
Q: You coined of the term "Cradle-to-Cradle". Could you give a brief overview of what this term means and how it has been received?
A: The original idea was that you could actually turn the economy f...
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White Paper
By Norman Beaulieu, Georges Dyer, Archie Kasnet / Aedi Group
For-profit businesses can and should co-exist and cooperate with nonprofit organizations, actively participating across boundaries to help each other more effectively fulfill their missions. We mainta...
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White Paper
By David Williams | Impact International
We live in one world. A world that is changing more rapidly than ever before. A world that is getting smaller and faster. Information can be shared at the push of a button. When something happens in o...
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Case Study
By AT&T
High gas prices coupled with concerns about climate change have made efficiency a must when it comes to corporate fleets. AT&T is taking steps to address this challenge by introducing alternative-fu...
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