Environmental Sustainability and Business
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Environmental Sustainability and Business
Environmental Performance Group
Richard Young, President
Reducing your footprint is good business.
Today’s Presentation
Why Environmental Sustainability?Sustainability and Business $$$$Sustainability Program Development
StepsExample Results
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US Population5%
US ResourcesAnd Wastes
30%
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Today’s Green Reality
Environmentally Responsible Business Are you aware of your
impacts ? Are you taking steps
to reduce those impacts?
Are you committed to continuous improvement ?
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Sustainable Business
EnvironmentalResponsibility
FinancialPerformance
OrganizationalHealth
Profitable SustainabilityProfitable Sustainability
PeopleProfit
Planet
Triple Bottom Line Three P’s
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$ Your Business Drivers $
GROWTH
EXPENSES
ASSETS
Revenue
COGS
MarketShare
Overhead
HumanAssets
Risk
OperatingProfit
ReturnOn Assets
ShareholderValue
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Sustainability Program Development
Goal: Reduce Environmental Impacts Improve Financial Performance
Create Long-term Value
Four Key Program Development Steps• Baseline Assessment• Plan Development• Internal Execution• Monitoring and Reporting
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3. Water Use Analysis
4. Solid Waste Analysis
5. Current Green Practices Analysis
Step 1- Baseline Assessment
1. Carbon Footprint Analysis
2. Ecological Footprint Analysis
Tonnes CO2e
An Environmental Footprint Baseline Assessment typically contains the following:
Global Acres
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Business Drivers
Step 2-Plan Development
Environmental Impacts• Energy
• Materials
• Transportation
• Water
• Waste
Sustainability GoalsRevenue
COGS
MarketShare
Overhead
HumanAssets
Risk
+
Producing profits helps build momentum
Focus first on your money making opportunities
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Example Plan Goals & Strategies
Waste Reduction/Recycling Conserve Energy Greenhouse Gas Reduction Employee Education Alternative Energy Transportation Green Buildings/LEED Water Conservation Supply Chain Management
Material Efficiency Green Products Community Initiatives Environmental Advocacy Organic Foods Reduce Ecological Footprint Reduce Pollution Consumer Education Pollution Reduction
Many different types - all good!
What’s best for your organization?
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Step 3- Internal Execution
Program Leadership - C Level Green Team - Cross Company
CollaborationEmployee Awareness and Engagement -
Learning about how they can help
Very Important!
Employees want to work for companies that are doing the right things, and help the company be successful.
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Step 4-Monitoring and Reporting
Landfill Waste 50%
5% reduction in materials Saves more than 60 tons of packaging material
5% recycled content
Water Waste 20% reduction
GHG Waste 15% reduction
Employees 100% trained
Carbon Inventory
1,725 Tons CO2e Saved
Ecological Footprint
2,375 Acres Saved
Packaging Waste
Saves greater than 190 tons of landfill waste per year, or roughly 5,000 trash cans of garbage
GOAL Environmental BenefitsTARGET
Saves 350 acres of land
PROGRESS TO DATE (% of Goal)
Saves 1,825 football fields of bioproductive land
Saves 2,800,000 gallons of water, enough to supply the daily consumption of 28,000 Utahns
Saves 1,850 tons of GHGs, roughly equivalent to planting 165,000 trees
Equals 210 employees trained
Saves 1,050 acres of world forests
“You can’t manage what you don’t measure.”
Example Scorecard - Make it Real
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Bottom Line
Value-Added Business Strategy
In the future, all leading business will have environmental sustainability as part of their core business strategy and culture.
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Example - Sweet Candy Co.
Reduced waste +Increased revenue +
Reduced costs = Profits
ROI = Very good !
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Example - Aberdeen Study
By increasing quality and corporate responsibility, leading food and beverage companies have made these improvements:
19 percent decrease in energy costs 17 percent decrease in waste / disposal costs 13 percent decrease in defects / non-conforming goods over last 12
months 5 percent decrease in year-over-year overall operational
costs relative to changes in volume of business 15 percent increase in new customers
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Moving Forward
Program Development Paths: Do It Yourself (“DIY Sustainability”) Outside Help Industry Toolkit
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EarthRight Business Institute
EarthRightInstitute.com
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Questions?
Thank you!
Richard YoungEnvironmental Performance Group
www.epgsustainability.com 801-485-5551