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Simple Green Business Secrets
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The Simple Secrets of Green Business
A Small Presentation on Secrets of Green Business. Just the Main Points I have mentioned.
Leo Victor
Business is coming under increasing
pressure from government, customers and campaigning groups
to improve its environmental performance.
Soaring utility and compliance costs
are hitting companies where it hurts—on their
bottom line.
But there is another way of looking at
the green agenda—as an opportunity
rather than a threat.
Some Simple Secrets of Green Business Success.
• Preparing To Go Green—change management, indicators, communication and marketing.
• Small Steps—the easy actions that will cut waste of materials, water and energy and save you money.
• Huge Leaps—the really big changes that will make your business truly green by changing your processes, products and business models.
• Hundreds of handy hints and tips.• Includes brainstorming checklists
The Three Secrets of Green
Business Success
Understand the
business case
Secret No 1:
Treat the environmental agenda as an opportunity, not a threat. Grasp it with both hands but, whatever you do, don’t forget you are still running a business.
Aiming for mere compliance with environmental legislation is a very expensive hobby. If you have an effluent stream containing a certain amount of a toxic material you may have to install a filter or treatment system to reduce its concentration to a legally acceptable level. If the law tightens in the future, you may have to decommission that system and install a more effectivealternative. This can and does happen several times over a matter of years,leading to great expense.
If, on the other hand, you design the toxin out of the process, then you will never need to purchase or maintain a treatment system again.
What to
doSecret No 2:
Follow the eco-system model of environmental sustainability or, where you can’t, be eco-efficient by a factor of 10.
● eco-efficiency which is largely concerned with quantities of materials andenergy; .● eco-system models which are largely
concerned with the type of materialsand energy and how we use them
How to
do it
Secret No 3:
Take some huge leaps and lots of small steps.
Preparing To Go Green
• The essentials of change • Creating a culture for change • Environmental management
systems • Measuring performance • Creating a strategy • External communication
Small Steps
• Doing things right • Pollution incident prevention • Waste minimization and recycling • Energy efficiency • Water conservation • Greening your supply chain • Transport• Carbon offsetting
Huge Leaps• Doing the right thing • Cleaner production • Renewable energy • Green buildings • Industrial Symbiosis • Eco-design • Product service systems • Exploiting synergies
Final Thoughts1. understand the business case: be
proactive, grasp the opportunity, but don’t forget you are a business, not a charity;
2. follow the ecological model of sustainability, or where you can’t, be eco-efficient by a factor 10;
3. take huge leaps and small steps.
So why don’t you get
started.presented by :
Leo victor
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