We are very excited to be working with local printing company and Green Plus Movers “A Better Image Printing” in creating a long-term Sustainability Strategic Plan. Like many local businesses, Diana and Steve Minta, owners of A Better Image Printing, had already established a number of business practices that generate positive People and Planet outcomes (employee profit sharing and using post-consumer recycled paper, e.g.). With the additional focus on sustainability they plan to be certified Green Plus before the end of the year, and to build their People and Planet objectives right into their long term strategic plan.
A ‘dream team’ of local sustainability consultants has pulled together to help A Better Image Printing design and implement their Sustainability Strategic Planning Process: Brooks Rainey Pearson (Intern at the Institute for Sustainable Development), Ben Quinn (ActionCoaching), Prinny Anderson (Duke Corporate Education) and Jonathan Estes (Strategic Measures, Inc.). For all of us, working together with one client in this fashion has become a powerful way to test some of the new processes and ways of working in the new sustainability paradigm, and learn from each other.
Absolutely! Hundreds, maybe thousands now, of companies (governments, etc.) are generating economic benefits from “going green.” Our entire strategic planning approach is based on setting that as an upfront objective — to successfully generate people, planet and profit benefits. With growing citizen/consumer insistence on sustainable products and services, broad global investments in “green” technologies and solutions, and the common-sense principle that efficient utilization of energy and resources will reduce waste/cost, the number of ways to generate economic benefits while “going green” are well-documented and increasing.
Absolutely! Hundreds, maybe thousands now, of companies (governments, etc.) are generating economic benefits from “going green.” Our entire strategic planning approach is based on setting that as an upfront objective — to successfully generate people, planet and profit benefits. With growing citizen/consumer insistence on sustainable products and services, broad global investments in “green” technologies and solutions, and the common-sense principle that efficient utilization of energy and resources will reduce waste/cost, the number of ways to generate economic benefits while “going green” are well-documented and increasing.
Hey, great to see more people are going green. I have heard informally that in addition to environmental benefits, that there are often economic benefits for going green. Is there any evidence of this in your strategic planning experience?
Hey, great to see more people are going green. I have heard informally that in addition to environmental benefits, that there are often economic benefits for going green. Is there any evidence of this in your strategic planning experience?