Sustainability Memo
Recommended Action
As the new Senior Vice President for Sustainability I believe the company should institute an Eco-Efficiency strategy. This innovative approach to the greening of our company, in a nutshell, is basically our firm doing more with less and becoming profitable at the same time.
Let me first say that a company should never seem to be "going green" just to look good or to give the impression of jumping on the bandwagon of the current wave of environmentalism and conservation. The idea of a company working towards sustainability is a noble idea, and while I realize there is a sense of caution within the executive management of our company, I trust that given careful thought and analysis, we can proceed in a sensible approach that will be beneficial financially and environmentally.
Certainly, by using strategies that lower our costs and reduce our impact on the ecology surrounding our facilities, we engender respect from the communities we work in and we show our shareholders we're engaged in smart practices that point to a future that is profitable and sustainable. Moreover, Eco-Efficiency -- a good start towards sustainability -- involves resource productivity. In other words, our company should be conscientious about our resources and in doing so we can realize savings, increase our yields, and use our by-products in a much more efficient way. Waste consists of the less-than-efficient…
