The business guide to sustainability: practical strategies and tools for organizations
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| adam_text | Titel: The business guide to sustainability
Autor: Hitchcock, Darcy E.
Jahr: 2009
Contents
Xlll
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xvii
xxi
xxii
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
How this book is structured
How to get the most out of this book xxiii
How to use the self-assessments xxiii
Extend the value of the book xxvii
Disclaimer to the sustainability experts xxvii
Part 1 - Foundation Concepts
1 Sustainability as a Strategic Issue 3
Benefits of pursuing sustainability 3
Threats if you don t pursue sustainability 6
Risks in pursuing sustainability 8
What is sustainability? 9
Why is sustainability a strategic issue? 12
Factors that define sustainability 18
How do you know whether your organization is sustainable? 20
Conclusion 22
2 Change Agent/Sustainability Director: How to Keep
a Sustainability Effort on Track 25
What you should know about sustainability 25
Strategies you can use 28
Change agents with no formal authority 29
Begin within your span of control 29
Sow seeds 29
Discussion groups 29
Green teams 30
Sustainability coordinators with formal authority 30
Steering committees 30
vi The Business Guide to Sustainability
Task forces and project teams 31
Individuals 32
Award programmes and certification systems 32
Sustainability management systems 32
Conclusion 33
SCORE the sustainability coordinator 33
Part 2 - Sustainability by Industry Sector
3 Sustainability in Services and General Office Practices 39
What you should know about sustainability 39
Strategies you can use 42
Clean up your own operations 42
Facilities 42
Technology 43
Paper products 44
Break room 45
Take responsibility for your ripples 46
Evaluate strategic threats 48
Explore emerging opportunities 49
Conclusion 51
SCORE services and office practices 51
4 Sustainability in Manufacturing and Product Design 55
What you should know about sustainability 55
Strategies you can use 59
Product design 59
Design for environment 59
Life cycle assessment 61
Life cycle costing 62
Product life cycle management and product life cycle tools 64
Grey lists, black lists and supply chain management 64
Green chemistry 65
Converting products to services 66
Biomimicry 68
Operations 69
Energy and greenhouse gases 69
Collaborate with the supply chain 71
Product certification 73
Zero waste 75
Contents vii
Extended producer responsibility, product stewardship
and product take-back 76
Conclusion 79
SCORE manufacturing 80
5 Sustainability in Government Agencies 83
What you should know about sustainability 84
Strategies you can use 89
Spend tax revenue wisely, maximizing the benefit to society 89
Conserving energy 89
Take advantage of wasted resources 90
Streamline red tape 90
Employ green building practices 91
Find new funding sources 92
See the municipality as a whole system 92
Provide infrastructure and security 93
Ensure security 94
Design efficient, vibrant urban spaces 94
Design effective public transportation 96
Protect the commons 97
Engineer market-based incentives 100
Reclaim public goods and charge the full cost ] 01
Create preserves 102
Adopt the precautionary principle 102
Implement regulations 103
Create a level playing field 104
Align regulations with your goals 104
Privatize the resource within the right boundaries 104
Get the numbers right 105
Eliminate perverse subsidies 107
Protect and help people who need it 109
Focus on prevention 110
Perform triage 110
Combat hunger 111
Provide housing 111
Guide us toward a better future 112
Model and encourage new behaviour 112
Use purchasing as a way to drive markets 112
Develop social capital 113
Provide incentives and grants for needed research 115
viii The Business Guide to Sustainability
Create audacious goals and policies 115
Sponsor award programmes 116
Make information visible 117
Integrate sustainability into education 118
Equalize opportunities 118
Use public pension funds as a signal to business 120
Conclusion 120
SCORE government 121
Part 3 - Sustainability by Organizational Function
6 Senior Management: How to Lead the Sustainability Effort 127
What you should know about sustainability 127
Strategies you can use 131
Assess threats, opportunities and constraints 132
Strategic planning 132
Scenario planning 133
Stakeholder management 134
Social entrepreneurship 134
Backcasting 136
Choose terms and frameworks 138
Alternative terms 138
Frameworks 139
Devise an implementation strategy and enlist support 140
Pick the best entry point 141
Set up the best structure 142
Demonstrate support 143
Align business systems 144
Provide for transparency and stakeholder involvement 145
Sustainability reports 147
Partner with NGOs 147
Stakeholder engagement activities 148
Stakeholder audits 149
Conclusion 149
SCORE senior management 150
7 Facilities: How to Save Energy and Water,
Improve Productivity and Reduce Waste 153
What you should know about sustainability 153
Strategies you can use 154
Construct/remodel a high-performance building 155
Deconstruction and recycling 155
Daylighting 156
Site selection 157
Material selection 157
Mechanical systems 158
Construction waste 159
Operate the building efficiently 159
Commissioning 159
Energy management 160
Manage waste 161
Provide green cleaning and landscaping services 162
Manage transportation issues 163
Conclusion 164
SCORE facilities 164
Human Resources: How to Support the Change
Process and Bolster Employee Commitment 167
What you should know about sustainability 168
Strategies you can use 170
Introduce the concept to top executives 170
Consult on the implementation 172
Align human resource systems 173
Model appropriate behaviours 178
Measure the benefits 179
SCORE human resources 180
Purchasing: How to Determine What to Buy and
How to Work with Suppliers 183
What you should know about sustainability 183
Strategies you can use 185
Purchasing practices 185
Adopt sustainable or environmentally preferable purchasing
(EPP) policies 185
Embed EPP or sustainable choices into online systems 186
Embed sustainability language into RFPs and contracts 186
Use service contracts to align the interests of your vendors
with your own 187
Implement a supply chain environmental management system 188
Buy green power 190
x The Business Guide to Sustainability
Create incentives and checklists for making more sustainable choices 190
Work with disadvantaged businesses and people as an economic
development strategy 192
Life cycle assessment and life cycle costing 192
Purchasing projects 193
Conduct a waste or purchasing audit 193
Create a reliable market for a targeted product 195
Research sustainable alternatives for a specific function or product 196
Partner an NGO 199
Conclusion 199
SCORE purchasing 200
10 Information Technology: How to Save Energy, Reduce Waste
and Facilitate the Transition to a Low-Impact Operation 203
What you should know about sustainability 203
Strategies you can use 205
Manage your equipment purchases 205
Reduce energy consumption 206
Equipment 206
Data centres 207
Cooling 207
Layout 208
Efficient use 208
Data storage 208
Dematerialize organizational operations 209
Facilitate efficient organizational operations 212
Support sustainable product design 213
Conclusion 214
SCORE information technology 214
11 Environmental Affairs: How to Support the Move Beyond
Compliance and Eco-Efficiencies to Sustainability 217
What you should know about sustainability 217
Strategies you can use 219
Environmental management systems 219
Chemical management systems 220
Chemical substitution 221
Green chemistry 222
Conclusion 222
SCORE environmental affairs 223
Contents xi
12 Marketing/Public Relations: Whether and How to Promote
your Sustainability Efforts 227
What you should know about sustainability 230
Strategies you can use 236
Community-based social marketing 236
Cause-related marketing 238
Labelling, certification and standards 239
Stakeholder involvement 239
Sustainability reporting 239
Market transformation 240
Conclusion 241
SCORE marketing and public relations 242
13 Accounting and Finance: How to Account for Environmental
and Social Impacts 245
What you should know about sustainability 245
Strategies you can use 250
Develop a metrics framework and report on results 251
The Natural Step 252
Triple bottom line/Three Es 252
Sustainability or environmental management system 252
Organization s vision or values 253
Determine what is better 256
Activity-based costing (ABC) 256
Life cycle costing (LCC) 257
Life cycle assessment (LCA) 258
Decision tools to balance trade-offs 260
Brainstorm how to add more value 260
Weighted criteria charts 260
Compare a sustainability rating with cost 261
Leverage emerging ecosystem markets and governmental incentives 262
Conclusion 263
SCORE finance and accounting 264
Appendix A - Sustainability frameworks and tools 267
Appendix B ? Certification schemes 273
Notes 275
Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1 Steps to sustainability 14
1.2 How do you know whether your organization is sustainable? 21
5.1 Value, ownership and product life cycle 108
6.1 Collins team structure 143
12.1 Concern versus influence 240
13.1 SD Solutions results 262
A. 1 Hierarchy of sustainability frameworks 267
Tables
I.l Which chapters should you read? xxiv
1.1 Examples of organizations pursuing sustainability 11
5.1 Liveability for Portland, Oregon versus Atlanta, Georgia 97
5.2 Perverse subsidies 107
9.1 Options for working with suppliers 188
9.2 Environmental score sheet 191
9.3 Sustainable products checklist 197
13.1 Metrics based on The Natural Step system conditions 253
13.2 Metrics based on the triple bottom line 253
13.3 Metrics based on mission and values 254
13.4 Comparison of ABC, LCC and LCA 256
13.5 Weighted criteria chart 260
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