If you owned a manufacturing company and it cost you $25.00 to produce an item that you sold for $1.00, how long would you stay in business? As per this, and other studies, it takes: 25 calories to produce 1 calorie of beef 15 calories to produce 1 calorie of pork 10 – 20 calories [...]
SMEs (small to mid-sized enterprises - up to 500 employees) have always struggled to compete with the larger companies on recruiting the best talent. The post-pandemic tightening of the job market has made things even harder for SMEs to find quality talent. However, we've known for some time that being a certified sustainable company has [...]
Last year, via this post, we estimated $500 billion in business would move from non-sustainable to sustainable businesses in 2024. The expectation is 2025 will see an even larger transfer, as more consumers (B2B and B2C) move their purchases to sustainable businesses. This McKinsey study looks at growth potential tied to decarbonization and suggests capital [...]
Recently, we posted these eight things you want in a sustainability program. Years ago, our CEO worked in the HBA industry and was responsible for marketing fragrances, cosmetics and toiletries. Kristy Doolan interviewed our CEO for this article in Cosmetics Design Europe. In the article, Kristy highlights the following points, which are consistent with statements [...]
Sad as it is to say, we are all sheep. Per the study discussed in this article, if you want to convince someone to do something, don’t use logic on them (ie, “It’s the right thing to do”). You can try the Lemming Approach and play off a person’s need to follow others. [...]
This article touches on many of the points we regularly make Sustainability is a differentiator that people are looking for If done correctly, sustainability can change from being a roadblock to being a powerful marketing tool for an organization Besides being a differentiator, it drives growth, efficiency and reliability and becomes a [...]
This article, titled “Why sustainability is crucial for corporate strategy” is directed to you, as manager of your company. Most of us run our businesses with our heads down, thinking, “That (fill in the product/service) idea might be fine for some other companies, but we are not ready for it, not big enough, not able [...]
Given that we are all trying to achieve our 2025 plans, this article, showing a study using AI on 10,000 companies over 12 years, might be worth considering Using the S&P 500 as a base The portfolio study group that focused on sustainability-related R&D / new products, outperformed peers by 92% The [...]
Climate physical risk is your company’s financial exposure to extreme weather. This does not include any other environmental impacts. If we extrapolate the data from the study in this article, we arrive at the following: Climate risk (ie, financial hurt due to extreme weather) is currently taking 1% off the top (from [...]
The Edenark Group ISO 14001 is the world's best environmental sustainability certification program for small to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs). Why should an organization become certified sustainable? There are many reasons. We list 10 - https://edenark.com/why-becoming-a-certified-sustainable-organization-makes-sense/
