Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
We speak to many small & medium business owners who come and ask us: why should my company execute a sustainability strategy? Isn't sustainability a waste of time & money in these difficult economic times?
Our answer is usually the following: SMEs who are not committed to expanding sustainably will die. ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
On average adults spend over 90% of their time indoors, and the air indoors is almost always more polluted than outdoor air due to dust, mold, radon, and other chemicals. Recently, it has been recognized that poor indoor air quality can lead to lower productivity, missed work days, and illness ...
Posted in Business, Environment | 4 Comments »
Monday, December 8th, 2008
If you look at the waste in your office's trash bin, I would bet the vast majority of it, aside from paper, is packaging: disposable coffee cups, yogurt containers, single serving food wrapping, cardboard boxes, etc. A friend of mine once spent a year in Africa, and when he came ...
Posted in Business, Environment, Take action | 4 Comments »
Monday, November 17th, 2008
There are so many reasons to make your commute to work more sustainable, and there are just as many ways to achieve a greener commute. On top of reducing your impact on the environment, greening your commute by walking, cycling, using public transit, or any other method can get you in ...
Posted in Business, Environment | 2 Comments »
Monday, November 10th, 2008
Paper and ink are two of the things most consumed by offices, and that consumption comes along with some hefty environmental side-effects. The effects of using paper are well-known (deforestation, energy use, water use, etc.), yet offices around the world still consume astounding amounts of the stuff. It was ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Unless you have been living in a cave or buying other people's misery on margin, you have probably noticed that money is a little hard to come by in the business world right now. In times like these, companies begin cutting any costs they possibly can. At Verteego, for ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
There is a lot of information out there about things we can do in our lives to be more environmentally sustainable, but there is not so much about what people can do to make their lives more socially sustainable. This is probably because social sustainability is something that most people ...
Posted in Business, Social sustainability, Take action | 1 Comment »
Monday, October 13th, 2008
A point of view more and more difficult to defend! What can Lehman Brothers CEO, Richard Fuld answer when Henry Arnold Waxman asks him if it's fair that he got paid $480 millions when the company is bankrupt? "Almost nothing", he says!
It's not possible to anticipate about new regulations that this ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
To many, sustainable business is synonymous with green business. In fact, the environment is only one aspect of sustainability. It takes much more than environmentally-friendly practices for a business to be truly sustainable.
In order to figure out what makes a business sustainable, perhaps we should first define "sustainable." Webster's ...
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