Environmental Sustainability and Business

Environmental Performance Group

Richard Young, President

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Today’s Presentation

Why Environmental Sustainability?Sustainability and Business $$$$Sustainability Program Development

StepsExample Results

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US Population5%

US ResourcesAnd Wastes

30%

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Today’s Green Reality

Environmentally Responsible Business Are you aware of your

impacts ? Are you taking steps

to reduce those impacts?

Are you committed to continuous improvement ?

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Sustainable Business

EnvironmentalResponsibility

FinancialPerformance

OrganizationalHealth

Profitable SustainabilityProfitable Sustainability

PeopleProfit

Planet

Triple Bottom Line Three P’s

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$ Your Business Drivers $

GROWTH

EXPENSES

ASSETS

Revenue

COGS

MarketShare

Overhead

HumanAssets

Risk

OperatingProfit

ReturnOn Assets

ShareholderValue

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Sustainability Program Development

Goal: Reduce Environmental Impacts Improve Financial Performance

Create Long-term Value

Four Key Program Development Steps• Baseline Assessment• Plan Development• Internal Execution• Monitoring and Reporting

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3. Water Use Analysis

4. Solid Waste Analysis

5. Current Green Practices Analysis

Step 1- Baseline Assessment

1. Carbon Footprint Analysis

2. Ecological Footprint Analysis

Tonnes CO2e

An Environmental Footprint Baseline Assessment typically contains the following:

Global Acres

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Business Drivers

Step 2-Plan Development

Environmental Impacts

• Energy

• Materials

• Transportation

• Water

• Waste

Sustainability Goals

Revenue

COGS

MarketShare

Overhead

HumanAssets

Risk

+

Producing profits helps build momentum

Focus first on your money making opportunities

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Example Plan Goals & Strategies

Waste Reduction/Recycling Conserve Energy Greenhouse Gas Reduction Employee Education Alternative Energy Transportation Green Buildings/LEED Water Conservation Supply Chain Management

Material Efficiency Green Products Community Initiatives Environmental Advocacy Organic Foods Reduce Ecological Footprint Reduce Pollution Consumer Education Pollution Reduction

Many different types - all good!

What’s best for your organization?

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Step 3- Internal Execution

Program Leadership - C Level Green Team - Cross Company

CollaborationEmployee Awareness and Engagement -

Learning about how they can help

Very Important!

Employees want to work for companies that are doing the right things, and help the company be successful.

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Step 4-Monitoring and Reporting

Landfill Waste 50%

5% reduction in materials

Saves more than 60 tons of packaging material

5% recycled content

Water Waste 20% reduction

GHG Waste 15% reduction

Employees 100% trained

Carbon Inventory

1,725 Tons

CO2e Saved

Ecological Footprint

2,375 Acres Saved

Packaging Waste

Saves greater than 190 tons of landfill waste per year, or roughly 5,000 trash cans of garbage

GOAL Environmental BenefitsTARGET

Saves 350 acres of land

PROGRESS TO DATE (% of Goal)

Saves 1,825 football fields of bioproductive land

Saves 2,800,000 gallons of water, enough to supply the daily consumption of 28,000 Utahns

Saves 1,850 tons of GHGs, roughly equivalent to planting 165,000 trees

Equals 210 employees trained

Saves 1,050 acres of world forests

“You can’t manage what you don’t measure.”

Example Scorecard - Make it Real

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Bottom Line

Value-Added Business Strategy

In the future, all leading business will have environmental sustainability as part of their core business strategy and culture.

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Example - Sweet Candy Co.

Reduced waste +Increased revenue +

Reduced costs = Profits

ROI = Very good !

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Example - Aberdeen Study

By increasing quality and corporate responsibility, leading food and beverage companies have made these improvements:

19 percent decrease in energy costs 17 percent decrease in waste / disposal costs 13 percent decrease in defects / non-conforming goods over last 12

months 5 percent decrease in year-over-year overall operational

costs relative to changes in volume of business 15 percent increase in new customers

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Moving Forward

Program Development Paths: Do It Yourself (“DIY Sustainability”) Outside Help Industry Toolkit

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EarthRight Business Institute

EarthRightInstitute.com

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Questions?

Thank you!

Richard Young

Environmental Performance Groupwww.epgsustainability.com

801-485-5551