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What are the four levels of engagement in a sustainability plan? Learn the basics of sustainability planning, and the importance of linking your energy efficiency and conservation efforts to an overall sustainability strategy as your business rises through successive layers of engagement with sustainability. Watch the video at http://info.energycap.com/ef-sustainability-webinar-video
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Beyond Compliance:Four Levels of Engagement with Sustainability
By EnergyCAP, Inc.
©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ #energyleader ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com
Humans aspire to greatness.
Source: http://mashlyn.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/picture-42.png
Source: http://mashlyn.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/picture-53.png
In 1971, French high-wire artist PhilippePetit walked between the towers ofThe Notre Dame Cathedral.
But then he saw plans for the World Trader Center and had a vision for what he wanted to do.
Source: http://fillipshow.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
We are driven by our visions.
Source: http://fillipshow.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
But we must begin somewhere.And we must know where we are going.
Source: http://wallpaperus.org/first-steps-wallpaper-tags-mood-baby-baby-baby-baby-lala-legs-his-father-669998370/
CurrentState
Vision
First steps = final steps
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The problem: In sustainability, first steps become final steps.
So we take rudimentary steps and call them final steps.
Source: https://www.behance.net/gallery/3684073/Recycle-It-Saves-Lives
Source: http://www.holesinyoursocks.com/2011/08/29/sardonic-salad-energy-efficient-lightbulb-perm/
Source: http://themetapicture.com/try-organic-food/
Source: http://www.funkyfunz.com/funny-birthday-quotes-prius/funny-birthday-quotes_prius/
And our businesses are missing out on a
generational opportunity for innovation.
But our world needs us to take greater steps than we are taking.
"Approximately 60%of the ecosystemservices evaluated(15 out of 24 ecosystems) are being degraded or used unsustainably."
-Millenium Ecosystem Assessment
Population
Ecosystem Health
Source: http://www.art-days.com/sebastiao-salgado-genesis-landscapes/
Source: MIT Sloan surveyed 5,300 executives and managersin 118 countries.
Six StepSustainability
PlanningProcess
Today’s webinar presents the “RISE” framework
from Step 2:Assess Current State
Roadmap for Innovative Sustainability Engagement (RISE)
RISE Through Key Business Functions
Today’s webinar will show changes to these functionsthru the RISE framework.
Roadmap for Innovative Sustainability Engagement (RISE)
Stage 1: Complying
"We are following all appropriate laws."
Decision-making and investments related to environmental and social aspects of doing business are in accordance with local, state and federal laws, standards.
Stage 1: Complying
Rising Up from Stage 1Find out who is interested and has appropriate skills and knowledge
Create a team or task force to coordinate targeted pilot projects to go "beyond compliance"
Assess impacts to identify opportunities to go beyond compliance
Develop an understanding of what sustainability means strategically to your organization and industry
Stage 2: Prototyping
"Taking the environment and human health into consideration helps us save money and reduce risk."
Decision-making and investments related to environmental and social aspects of doing business go beyond what is required and are focused on short term payback.
Stage 2: Prototyping
Source: http://www.nhl.com/green/report/#environmentalImpact
Source: http://www.nhl.com/green/report/#environmentalImpact
Rising Up from Stage 2
Review existing and past initiatives to gather data, calculate returns, identify barriers and bright spots
Form a team to look at sustainability more strategically
Establish a preliminary vision and business case for pursuing sustainability
Set goals and preliminary metrics (leading and lagging metrics)
Stage 3: Integrating
"Taking the environment and human health into consideration is the right thing to do and creates long term value.“
Decision-making and investments related to environmental and social aspects of doing business are built around a unifying strategy and incorporated into every organizational function.
Stage 3: Integrating
Source: http://johnhendrix.blogspot.com/2012/01/walmart-in-china.html
Walmart's Sustainability Goals"Environmental sustainability has become an essential ingredient to doing business responsibly and successfully. At Walmart we have already made great progress in achieving our sustainability goals. However, we still have a way to go and we need your help to get there. As the world's largest retailer, our actions have the potential to save our customers money and help ensure a better world for generations to come.
Sr Vice President for Sustainability
Our three aspirational sustainability goals are:
To be supplied 100% by renewable energy
To create zero waste
To sell products that sustain people and the environment"
Rising Up from Stage 3
Gather input from customers and other external key stakeholders
Embed sustainability into planning, budgeting and performance management and compensation
Ensure all members achieve an understanding of sustainability and the skills, knowledge and tools they need to apply it to their work
Stage 4: Transforming
"Taking the environment and human health into consideration makes us a leader in our industry and a critical partner in the creation of a sustainable society.“
Decision-making and investments related to environmental and social aspects of doing business have transformed our business model and our industry.
Stage 4: Transforming
Source: http://carolgulyas.typepad.com/green_build_indiana/2011/08/
Source: http://www.interfacecutthefluff.com/are-you-experiencing-sustainability-at-work/
Source: http://inhabitat.com/interview-ray-anderson-on-climbing-the-mountain-of-corporate-sustainability/
Roadmap for Innovative Sustainability Engagement (RISE)
Project Management
Change Management
So what’s your vision for sustainability?
Source: http://fillipshow.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
When he was 17, Philippe Petit had a vision to walk between the World Trade Center Towers.
Source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center
So he planned.
Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/08/philippe-petit-s-moment-of-concern-walking-the-wtc-tightrope.html
And then he didit through a vision and a plan.
Rise Up
1. Understand where you really are (confidence is overrated)
2. Plan with precision (prepare to be wrong)
Go Beyond Compliance
Six StepSustainability
PlanningProcess
©2014 EnergyCAP, Inc. ▪ @energycap ▪ #energyleader ▪ www.EnergyCAP.com
Erik FoleyFounder & PrincipalDais Consulting Group, affiliate of EnergyCAP, [email protected]
Contact me about:PresentationsStrategic planning facilitationStrategic sustainability coaching