Executive

Leadership is a critical component of any organization, but it becomes even more important when organizations are working to gain momentum in their sustainability programs, an ambitious mission for companies big and small. Active leadership is necessary to develop shared company values and a vision for the future.

From retailers to manufacturers, from financial to high tech corporations, most any company can now reap the plentiful financial rewards of taking their business in an eco-friendly direction. Your company can benefit from tax breaks, government subsidies, savings from eco-friendly practices, and increased popularity and demand through your standing as a green company.

Working from home helps eliminate a great deal of cost and consumption associated with the office. Employees will often save a great deal of time, gasoline, and energy not having to commute to work, and the electricity and other appliances in the office will be utilized less. For some businesses, it has proven useful to get rid of the office space altogether and go 100% remote.

There are many actions breweries can take to reduce their environmental footprint, prevent pollution, conserve natural resources, and be a model of sustainability. These actions are what’s needed for brewery sustainability.

Organizations across the board from brick and mortar, fully remote to international companies may be interested in funding green projects. Your options include grants, loans, lending platforms, and even the Climate Pledge Fund.

You are a business that is interested in sustainability but doesn’t know how to start. Or you have tried a few initiatives, such as recycling, here and there, but you haven’t really gotten things going. Or you have one or several teams who have taken on sustainability in their departments, and you see promise in broadening that effort throughout your company.

An “ecopreneur” is an entrepreneur focused on creating and selling environmentally-friendly products and services. Ecopreneurship is a new way of doing business – a way to create sustainable business models, and work together with (and for) the environment. Using innovative approaches to old problems, ecopreneurs are looking for ways to capitalize on the environmental problems that we face.

There are a variety of ways to make a property more sustainable such as using green building materials, following a regular maintenance schedule, upgrading to energy-efficient lighting and appliances, and investing in onsite renewable energy systems (e.g. solar photovoltaic, wind, microhydropower and hybrid systems).

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is the most prominent green building rating and certification system used throughout the world. LEED can be a very beneficial certification to pursue, however understanding the process of getting certified can be confusing, which is why we at the Green Business Bureau have put together this article, to support your certification efforts.

“Net zero” has become one of the main buzzwords with nearly every company and governmental association nowadays expressing commitments to achieve net zero. However, current net zero plans fall short of what is required to stop the effects of global warming, leading one to question whether net zero is truly the optimal solution.

There are many business advantages of running a sustainable business, but getting there is not easy and often starts with engaging employees to create a green company culture. To build a company culture committed to sustainability, business leaders must create a purpose-driven organization where employees find meaning in their work and feel like they are making a difference.

If your company is working toward improving its sustainability performance, you need a strategy, plan and roadmap. There are ten steps we’ve defined at Green Business Bureau to gear your company’s purpose, culture, focus and actions towards sustainability. All 10 steps below were summarized in the first article, The Executive Guide for Becoming a Sustainable Business:

As businesses continue taking steps to be more purpose-driven, conscientious and responsible, the terms “corporate sustainability” and “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) are thrown around a lot, often without clarity and without knowing what these terms mean.

A green wave is currently surging through the business world in full force, and it’s not expected to let up anytime soon. As a result, there has never been a better time to transform your office into a green workspace. Besides doing the right thing for future generations, going green in the office can provide your company with tangible bottom-line benefits.

Today, it’s incontestable that instituting a sustainability strategy is good business. The benefits of this go beyond environmental and social security. That is, more and more studies indicate business sustainability delivers greater prosperity, and designs organizations to last.

Becoming a sustainable business starts with establishing priorities and formally writing a sustainability mission statement or what we at Green Business Bureau call a “green mission statement”. A green mission statement becomes the foundation of a company’s sustainability efforts.