Sustainability International
Helping your business grow by embracing sustainable practices and green initiatives...Sustainability is harmony between humans and nature.
Sustainability is based on a simple premise that everything we need for our well being depends on our natural environment. Pursuing sustainability is to create conditions which make it possible for humans and nature to exist in harmony.
As a business owner each day is a constant balancing act to bring profitability to your business, while finding ways to operate your business in an environmentally sensitive way. Moving toward sustainability is a challenge when considering how we affect our environment, through our lifestyles, living conditions, energy use, travel and work methods and practices.
Become A Sustainability International Partner
Sustainability International Partners understand the importance of conducting their business in an environmentally sensitive and sustainable manner.
Your customers are searching for businesses who embrace sustainability, and green initiatives and there is nothing more important to your business than connecting to every customer possible.
The partnership is FREE, learn how easy it is to become a Sustainability International Partner and enjoy the benefits of being a Sustainability International Partner.
Support Sustainability and protecting our environment, subscribe today for your FREE membership to Sustainability International.
Recycle & Reduce Waste
Use of highly visible and well marked recycling containers in all visitor areas to recycle glass, metal, and paper.
Water Management
By the use of water conservation, storm water management and environmentally friendly landscaping practices Sustainability International Partners can save and lessen the negative impact of water usage on our lives and the environment.
Green Buildings
By using modern construction and renovation practices, Sustainability International Partners high performance building practices can help to decrease adverse effects upon the environment from our buildings.
Energy and Emissions
By embracing energy efficiency standards and renewable energy use, Sustainability International Partners energy use and greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced helping to protect our environment.
EV Charging Stations
Sustainability International Partners can assist more and more travelers who are looking for the convenience of Electric Vehicle charging stations by installing stations onsite.
Will New BioPlastics Destroy Sustainability Growth?
Bioplastics are plastics made from renewable biological sources, whereas traditional plastics are made from fossil fuels. Are Plant Based Plastics Our Environmental Answer? Since about 40 percent of the plastic produced is used in disposable...
Can You Clean Up Your Amazon Purchases Carbon Footprint?
Have You Thought About the Amazon Boxes on Your Porch? Most of us have those boxes, delivered by Amazon, stacking up on our porches. Have you thought about what the carbon footprint is of those deliveries? Amazon's boxes are doing more than just piling...
How Can You Calculate Your Business Carbon Footprint?
Understand Your Environmental Impact Do you understand your impact on the environment? So many of our daily actions add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and it's not all our fault. Much of the technology which makes our lives more comfortable...
Can We Innovate Our Way Out of Our Environmental Mess?
Can Innovation Solve Our Problems? Innovation is an abused business buzzword that is often applied to the topic of sustainability. Online literature is full of articles and reports on sustainability and innovation, sometimes converged into "sustainable...
Why is There Such a Sudden Interest in Ocean Plastic?
Why the Sudden Interest in Ocean Plastic? Over the last year, there has been a surge of interest in the problem of ocean plastic pollution. The media drumbeat began with the now-infamous turtle video, showing the removal of a plastic straw embedded...
Triple Bottom Line is Your Business Sustainability Vision
Why do You Need a Business Sustainability Strategy? Business sustainability can invoke passion and inspiration among your employees and your customers while benefiting your company financially. By listening to the other voices which influence your...
Embrace Being Green, Plastic Is Out, Sustainability Is In
Plastic Is Out, Sustainability Is In The days of single-use plastics are numbered. Seattle, in 2018 became the first US city to ban single-use plastic cutlery. Starbucks joined them adopting a plan to eliminate plastic straws by 2020. Several...
7 Steps to Reducing Your Business Carbon Emissions
Reducing Carbon Emissions is Good for Business It's time for all of us to examine the roles that our homes and businesses play in the growing climate change crisis. Our future doesn’t have to be bleak if we take action now. The first step to...
Learn the Secrets of Measuring Employee Green Engagement
Why do Companies Brag About Sustainability Note: This is the fifth installment in a five-part series on engaging employees around sustainability. The first part introduces the four stages of employee engagement; the second part discusses raising employee...
Action! The Final Step to Employee Sustainability Engagement
Action! The Final Step to Employee Sustainability Engagement Note: This is the fourth installment in a five-part series on engaging employees around sustainability. The first part introduces the four stages of employee engagement; the second...
Connection, Next Step in Employee Sustainability Engagement
Connection in Employee Sustainability Engagement Note: This is the third installment in a five-part series on engaging employees around sustainability. The first part introduced the four stages of employee engagement; the second part discussed...
How to Embed Sustainability Within Your Company Culture
Employee Sustainability Engagement Stage 1 Note: This is the second installment in a five-part series on engaging employees around sustainability. The first part introduced the four stages of employee engagement; the second part discussed raising...
Engage Your Employee’s on Sustainability in 4 Easy Steps
Sustainability Provides Opportunities Note: This is the first installment in a five-part series on engaging employees around sustainability. The first part introduced the four stages of employee engagement; the second part discussed raising employee...
Why Your Business Should Openly Embrace Sustainability!
Sustainability Programs Encourage Green Choices Visitors to your business, whether online or to your physical location all arrive with their own set of values. When we shop, each of us applies our personal values as part of the equation that determines who...
Can Sustainable Development Actually Exist Today?
Is Sustainable Development Possible? Sustainable development is meeting human development goals while also protecting our environment and natural systems ability to provide the resources we depend on. Ideally our natural resources continue to meet...
Entrepreneurs Embracing Sustainability Become Ecopreneurs
Is Sustainability A Good Choice For Your Business? Beginning in the 1980's eco-awareness grew from the growth in pollution during the 1960's. Today growing consumer demand has brought sustainability into the main stream in business practices....
Embracing Business Sustainability Has Challenges and Rewards
What is a Sustainable Business? A Sustainable business or green business, is a business that has minimal negative impact on the global or local environment, community, society, or economy. A sustainable business embraces the concept of the triple...
Does Your Business Embrace the Worst Sustainable Practices
Your Worst Sustainable Business Practices Following are several ways that businesses fail when they are attempting to conduct their business in a sustainable manner. After reading my list, can you think of any other ways that a business fails to...
6 Steps Your Business Takes to Embrace Sustainability!
6 Steps to Business Sustainability! Most business sustainability programs are started to encourage employees and customers to embrace green initiatives. The reasons to do so can include improve company culture, encourage employees to work green and to...
How Does Your Business Litter Factor Affect The Environment?
Your Latte Factor Equates Your Litter Factor Have you heard of the Latte Factor? It's a phrase that was created as a metaphor for all the little things we spend money on during the course of a typical day. These purchases are usually done with little thought...
Discover the Benefits of Sustainable Business Practices
Adopting Sustainable Business Practices Enjoy the Benefits of being a Sustainable Business Businesses which demonstrate environmental integrity are likely to do well. This is often the side benefit which results from doing good. Sustainable businesses...
Is Your Business Guilty of the 7 Sins of Greenwashing?
The Seven Sins Of GreenWashing! Greenwashing is the deceptive use of green marketing or green PR to promote the perception that an organization's products, services, or policies are environmentally friendly. Greenwashing can be as simple as...
Green Business Practices
Sustainability International Partners green practices through the use of sustainable purchasing, electronics stewardship, transportation, waste diversion, and pollution prevention help in creating the harmony between business and nature necessary to protect our environment.
Sustainability International Partner’s Green Initiatives
- Recycle & Reduce Wastes: Use of highly visible and well marked recycling containers in all visitor areas to recycle glass, metal, and paper.
- Efficient Water Use: Have a plan for conserving water.
- Efficient Energy Use: Have a plan for reducing energy consumption.
- Support Green Events: Offer a Green environmentally friendly package for all events.
- Minimize use of Disposable Products: Use products made from bio-based or renewable resources and recycle or compost these items.
- Minimize Chemical Use: Have a plan to minimize the use of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and fertilizers.
- Recycle Grease: Dispose of grease in an environmentally friendly manner.
- Promote Green Practices: Use unique opportunities to educate guests about their environment and how they interact with the environment.
- Promote Green Partners: Feature your green partners and promote their environmental sensitivity to your guests.
- Minimize Printed Materials: Use digital marketing and web presence to spread your message.
Why Should My Business Become A Sustainability International Partner?
Sustainability International Partnership shows potential customers that your business has a commitment to helping keep our environment clean.
By adopting our voluntary Green Initiatives as your business practices, your business signals your commitment to a sustainable and green environment.
Become A Sustainability International Partner
Sustainability International Partners understand the importance of conducting their business in an environmentally sensitive and sustainable manner.
Your customers are searching for businesses who embrace sustainability, and green initiatives and there is nothing more important to your business than connecting to every customer possible.
The partnership is FREE, learn how easy it is to become a Sustainability International Partner and enjoy the benefits of being a Sustainability International Partner.
Support Sustainability and protecting our environment, subscribe today for your FREE membership to Sustainability International.