A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
Language: English
Pages: 253
ISBN: 0313382697
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
With unequaled insight, business experts profile 12 outstanding, sustainable, small- to medium-sized enterprises and explain how their green strategies and methods have helped them succeed.
• Case histories of small to medium-size enterprises in industries from manufacturing to health care, banking/investing, and recycling detailing their journeys to sustainability and environmental stewardship
• A "Lessons Learned" box in each chapter
• Sidebars with tips and examples that can be used by any type of business
• A reference bibliography at the end of each chapter
• A glossary
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Renewablechoice.com), can be partners. Similarly, state-sponsored organizations for sustainable development, such as Greenprint Denver (http:// www.greenprintdenver.org), will partner with organizations. Nonprofit firms promoting business sustainability, such as Colorado Connected Organizations for a Responsible Economy (www.corecolorado.org), has offered (in association with Deloitte), GRI sustainability reporting training courses. The courses are taught by LEAD Canada, a not-for-profit corporation.
Reward for using online banking and e-statements. Bellco renovated its office space to reduce energy usage, including installing sensor light switches, and developed a comprehensive recycling program (Bellco Credit Union, 2009). Because credit unions are limited to providing business loans up to 12.25 percent of their assets, some credit unions, such as Mid-Atlantic Federal Credit Union in Maryland, have found ways to partner with banks to allow larger business loans beyond their loan caps,.
Consideration throughout its decision making and operations. As pointed out by Bauer, BVCU’s environmental focus would be a way of doing business versus “a novelty promotion.” To mentor members, a new, more detailed Web site was launched (www.We CareColorado.com), which included member environmental efforts and environmental promotions and partnerships with other environmentally conscious firms in BVCU’s region. The new site would serve as a resource center for environmentally friendly living.
Percent in back-end materials revenues. Why would anyone pay additional fees to recycle their old electronics with a genuinely responsible operator when they could get it done for free, especially since those recyclers that did not charge an up-front fee still promised that their operations were entirely eco-friendly ? Mike Wright had earned his success in earlier entrepreneurial ventures with a strategy emphasizing doing the right thing and delivering outstanding customer service. He wasn’t.
Time,” says Scott, “but it’s less friendly to the environment. So, there is some warm-up period in the morning for our machines because of our practices, but it probably saves us some money as well in the long run.” A LEGACY OF CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY Sustainable business practices also require a social contribution. Denver Machine uses a family-style approach with employment practices. “Every time a person is hired, we review our code of ethics with that person to make sure that they buy into.