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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The “Global” in Climate Change When we hear about global climate change its scale can be overwhelming. One of two responses can override our rational brain. One response by some could be the thought that global climate change is such a big problem it is difficult to fully comprehend. You would not be alone in […]
The Business That is “In It” for Profit It is – or should be – a very obvious fact that for-profit companies are established to make money. They do so through revenues by way of selling products or services. Making revenues, however, is not sufficient. The goal is to have their gross receipts from products […]
The Proposed Goal It is not a pipe-dream to think we can dramatically cut our national and individual (or per capita) greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. “Drastic” reductions of at least 30 percent, 50 percent or more within the next decade is doable and well within our individual capacities to realize. We need to know where to […]
Climate Is Not Uniform. Where you Live Will Determine Your Likely Impacts The impacts of climate change on our daily individual lives will be dependent on where we live within the U.S. but more generally, they will range from small to large. Island residents and individuals living in or close to coastal communities within the […]
The Idea Behind Remanufacture Remanufacture is a bit of a misnomer. Remanufacturer is a term for the manufacturing industry focused on the production of hard and large durable goods in which an old product is made nearly new again, to be reused as if it were new. Remanufacturer also means rebuilding a product or piece […]
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