sustainable business Articles
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If you want Sustainability - Use their Language Stupid!
How many times have you been approached by someone who’s pitching you a product or service that you have no interest in? Have you ever approached a funder or potential donor and realized that while you are talking they are getting a glazed look over their eyes? Why is that? Too often non-profit managers forget about what is important to the end consumer. They have customers just like businesses, ...
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Clean Technology: The Answer for Washington`s Low Carbon Future
The emerging clean technology economy in Washington provides a unique opportunity to drive economicdevelopment and create high paying jobs while reducing the state’s fuel usage and greenhouse gas emissions. Emerging research and studies reveal that greater use of renewable energy systems provides an abundance of economic benefits through job creation, investments in creative technologies and ...
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Businesses and Sustainability - The First Leg is Financial
Whether we are talking about what keeps your doors open, or how to lower the environmental footprint of your business to make it more sustainable, you must be financially sound. Entrepreneurs are generally well-versed in the practice of frugality, but may forget some simple tactics for handling cash flow effectively, and giving attention to timely and accurate financials. Why do I write this? ...
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How to “Right” the Environmental Movement
It seems unconscionable to me that it was almost 18 years ago that then presidential candidate George H. W. Bush declared “I want to be your environmental president.” What has changed over the last two decades? How did we get to where we are today? Where government has rolled back many landmark environmental laws, and businesses view environmentalists only as legal obstructionists? I know the ...
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Why Sustainability rankings don’t matter (yet)!
As an investor, a business owner, and a consumer, I recently decided that I wanted to fully support businesses embracing sustainability. I didn’t know how best to go about this, so I decided to find out who the ‘100 most sustainable companies’ are. I was intrigued and overwhelmed by the number of lists out there, as well as the different approaches, evaluation criteria, and definitions for ...
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The practice of sustainable business: a New Zealand perspective
The paper outlines the business decision making paradigm that prevailed in the 20th century and how the resultant business decisions revealed deficiencies in that paradigm. However, it recognises that some powerful forces in society wish to retain the 20th century model; there is much available evidence to demonstrate the dangers inherent in such a strategy. Those engaged in business decision ...
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Sustainable Business Model Innovation: A Brief Overview
For years, the business sector and the government have shared a co-dependent relationship. To put it more precisely, almost all countries decided to adopt a capitalistic model while they were designing their economic structures, which automatically elevated the importance of organizations, businesses, industries, and enterprises. The growth and development of society are highly dependent on the ...
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Integrating sustainability into business continuity planning
Recently, natural and human-enabled disasters have caused many high profile events that resulted in significant losses of life and property, and that have highlighted business vulnerabilities to environmental factors. In response, many organisations have implemented business continuity plans and adopted more sustainable business processes. Business continuity and sustainability have long and ...
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How To Create a More Sustainable Business With a Circular Economy
As the world population grows, it becomes more important than ever for businesses to adopt sustainable practices. A circular economy is one way to achieve this, as it focuses on recycling and reuse. This can help reduce waste and environmental impact. There are many ways businesses can adopt a circular economy, including reducing packaging, choosing recycled materials, and partnering with ...
By Wastebits
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Removing Obstacles to Better, More Sustainable Business Decisions
The Monetization Working Group in Action June was a very active month for the Monetization Working Group (MWG), which included participation in the 3rd Biennial Water Funds conference in Bogota, Colombia along with working sessions and a full MWG meeting hosted by FEMSA at their offices in Mexico City. Both of these events played an important part in helping the Group advance its purpose of ...
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The future of corporate reporting is sustainable business performance management
The future of corporate reporting is Sustainable Business Performance Management. Today, this seems to be true more than ever. Non-financial disclosure is a marketplace expectation for any company reporting information to stakeholders. It is more crucial than ever to give stakeholder a throughout picture of your organisations performance. Integrating non-financials to Corporate Performance ...
By Tofuture Oy
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Sustainability as a business opportunity
Thinking of bringing your business to a more sustainable place? The best starting place for any business leader to embrace sustainability is to shift away from looking at sustainability in terms of how much it will cost, and towards assessing the returns it will generate. Consider the phenomenon known as the Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) which emerged in the field of quality management in the ...
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Two Ways to Solve Your Sustainability Business Case Problems
Linking sustainability to value creation is becoming a new imperative for business leaders. But how do you know you are making the right investments and optimizing business value? When it comes time to crunch the numbers, sustainability initiatives may seem too abstract, too intangible. Frequently, benefits of this sort are difficult to quantify in ways that are credible to all decision-makers. ...
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ESG Reporting Frameworks: Prioritizing Water Challenges for Sustainable Business
When companies and their consultants oversee an ESG reporting framework, the main focus is clearly to positively influence environmental, social, and governance factors. Each category within these ESG programs have multiple metrics that organizations must track. Common ESG metrics for the environmental category are greenhouse gas emissions and waste management. For the social category, ...
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How to Successfully Implement ESG
Companies are interested in ESG management to minimize corporate losses amid the climate change crisis and to operate a sustainable business ESG(Environmental, Social, and Governance) factors is a non-financial element just like decarbonization, social contribution, and business ethics, and is emerging as a major element of business for global corporations. Recently, there has been an ...
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Does the business size matter on corporate sustainable performance? The Australian business case
While a growing majority of research studies have concentrated on triple bottom line public reporting in large organisations, the review of past research suggests there seems to be limited support and importance given to small and medium sized businesses. This paper attempts to examine whether business size matters when it comes to corporate sustainability. To achieve this, we have conducted an ...
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Exiting in a State of Grace: can death be sustainable?
By August 2007, Deborah Cairns and Fran Reilly had been in business just a year and their alternative, family-directed funeral business had already won a regional sustainable business award. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, State of Grace offered clients socially and environmentally friendly alternatives including involving families where possible in keeping the deceased at home without embalming, ...
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Sustainable strategic management in an emerging market economy: the case of Romanian women entrepreneurs
For decades the field of strategic management has been dominated by research on developed economies, especially those of USA and Europe. Emerging markets, such as the former Soviet bloc countries, have largely been ignored. These countries have experienced, in varying degrees, major political, economic and social changes that have had a major impact on their current entrepreneurial climate. Based ...
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The new corporate social responsibility: a call for sustainability in business education
Researchers have studied the role of social responsibility in organisations for decades. Despite this extensive work, the teaching of corporate social responsibility in the classroom across the business curriculum remains somewhat limited. In order for educators in business to catch up with corporations who are increasingly focusing on issues and stakeholders beyond the bottom line, there must be ...
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Cleantech Niche Development: a small business perspective on climate change
The mitigation of climate change enables and requires a number of new companies and businesses to emerge. This paper investigates what it takes for a niche company in these emerging cleantech businesses to be able to act and grow using transition theory. A company that manages to perform successful Cleantech Niche Development (CND) will be able to have an environmentally and financially ...
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