Taking on Food Waste climate action at work and home
How to Take Food Waste Climate Action at Work and Home (and Why It’s Worth the Effort) Food waste is a major contributor to carbon emissions globally. In fact, it is ranked by Project Drawdown as the fourth most important solution for tackling the climate crisis. Shockingly, nearly 40% of all food produced each year […]
Why I wrote “Planting A Seed”
The reason I founded TripleWin Advisory was to effect transformational change within businesses in order to stop and reverse climate change and industry’s contribution to it. The work I do at TripleWin and for our clients is meaningful and impactful. I’m deeply passionate about what we do and the reasons for doing it. A significant […]
What’s the Deal with Material?
Companies cannot realize business circularity without systems change. A Circular Manufacturing Supply Chain Systems change requires a multitude of transformations that include (but is not exhaustive) reverse logistics capabilities, service models for manufacturers, carbon pricing, producer regulations, new commodity markets for materials as well as the more integral aspects of how organizations operate and supply […]
An Action Plan for Sustainably-Driven Companies
Originally published by Real Leaders Magazine, August 8, 2020. “Possible is more a matter of attitude; a matter of decision to choose; among the impossible possibilities; when one sound opportunity; becomes a possible solution.” ― Dejan Stojanovic The imperative for companies today is to be purpose-driven in how they operate. The acute health and economic crises […]
Stay Relevant: Building Sustainability into Your Brand
Originally published in Conscious Company Magazine, August 3, 2020. Employees and customers are your most ardent brand ambassadors. Stay relevant by providing your stakeholders with opportunities to fight climate change. We’re in a climate bind. Global warming is causing major havoc around the world. Almost every day we face news of floods, droughts, water shortages, […]
Setting a New Baseline for Normal
The goal of carbon accounting is for businesses to adopt target reduction goals for their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We can only track what we measure. To get to the point of setting carbon reduction goals, companies need to establish an emissions trend line. Makes sense. A company needs to know whether its GHG emissions […]
The Up-and-Up on Natural Refrigerants
Sometimes humanity really pulls together and solves problems. One example is the 1987 Montreal Protocol, an agreement among countries to ban ozone-hole creating refrigerants. The hole in the ozone layer of Earth’s atmosphere is now shrinking. Nations succeeding together! Another “success story in the making” has been emerging over the last decade. Again, it comes […]
Achieving the promise of reduce, reuse, recycle with chemical recycling
Originally published by Multibriefs on December 4, 2019 There’s no consensus yet on whether chemical recycling is the silver bullet for the growing plastic pollution problem. What is clear, however, is that a solution needs to be found — and fast. Plastic and the use of plastic are not going away anytime soon. This quintessential […]
Linking Purpose-Driven Leadership with Value Creation
FOUNDATIONS OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY There are key foundational aspects to corporate sustainability. The triple-bottom line philosophy is the stool on which all else stands. The legs of that stool are to bear weight in balance: a company is to equally emphasize in its course of operations 1) profit-making, 2) environmental pollution mitigation, and 3) societal […]
The Evolution of Corporate Sustainability
WHAT IS CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY? In the world of sustainability, as applied to corporate industry, we’re often met with varying approaches to and different definitions of business ‘sustainability’. Companies can view it as: a mindset (i.e., longevity of a business model), an approach (i.e., promote human productivity and satisfaction, a signal to the market or key […]