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