Consulting

Here are the top ten things you should do to commence a journey towards becoming a Sustainable Enterprise

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  1. Incorporate Sustainability into your Purpose and business model
  2. Educate staff on sustainable development and ensure engagement with the Purpose
  3. Complete the Sustainable Enterprise on line web tool to assess your current level of sustainable enterprise development. Develop action plans based on the results.
  4. Complete the Sustainable Enterprise web based sustainable leadership tools to enhance your ability to inspire sustainable performance
  5. Join a sustainable business network to access peer support and knowledge sharing
  6. Assess and offset your carbon footprint. Planting about 25 trees a year will offset average carbon emissions from one vehicle.
  7. Assess the environmental impact of all your activities including products, emissions and waste. To aid assessment implement an environmental management system such as ISO 14,000 or The Natural Step
  8. Engage in sustainability dialogue with customers, stakeholders and community organisations
  9. Review the human relations and rights aspects of all your activities.
  10. Constantly ask the ethical question “are we doing the right thing?”