The Edenark Group ISO 14001 sustainability certification program includes a ‘people piece’ that helps individuals and corporate employees become happier, healthier and more productive.

This part of our business is named A Better World Starts With Me and includes a retail high-altitude oxygen gym, named Gym For The Brain.

This article talks about Long Covid symptoms.

We are serving a significant number of clients suffering from Long Covid symptoms at our gym.

The purpose of this post is to let you know that if you are experiencing symptoms similar to those listed in the above article, you are not alone.  Schedule an appointment with your doctor and get a check-up.  This is not something you want to ignore.

Per a study discussed in this article, it is cheaper to build solar panels or cluster wind turbines than to keep operating coal plants.

On average, solar is a third cheaper than coal.

Coal is not going away in the short term.  But, if it is more cost-effective to operate wind and solar, it will be harder for investors to justify investing money for upgrades to coal plants versus putting that same money against alternative energy options.

This is not news, as we have seen this for a number of years.  But, any new study that confirms prior studies, add validity to the trend data.

As economies around the world set regulations for carbon emissions….and with those regulations come taxes for carbon producing companies….there is the natural tendency for heavy carbon emission producers to move manufacturing to less stringent countries.

This is called Carbon Leakage.

But it might not be so easy for companies to avoid the tax after all.

Per this video, the EU is developing a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) that will add a carbon tax on the finished product as it comes back into the EU.

The United States is working on its own CBAM.

Other countries will follow.

The “Pay me now or pay me later” approach of the CBAM is to deter manufacturers from incurring the cost of relocation; and to use that money to reduce carbon emissions in their existing plants.

Per a new UN report discussed in this article and video, we are running out of time, as ‘The climate time-bomb is ticking’.

This chart gives you a visual of how global temperature has changed since 1850.

Via our posts, you have seen the names of many companies that have chosen to be part of the solution. 

100% of those companies have renewed their sustainability certification commitment every year. Is that just because they care and have money to burn (pardon the pun) or, as we continually report, is there financial value to being certified sustainable? 

What is your downside of joining us versus your downside of not?   

We are often asked, “What are some of the things you help clients do, to become certified under the Edenark Group ISO 14001 program?”

Item #49 from the Edenark Group Green Team Guide – Paint Away Air Pollution!

Knowing that newly painted walls lift the mood and energize your team, you will, at some point, repaint your organization’s interior and exterior walls.   Why not use a non-toxic, zero-VOC, odor-eliminating, non-animal-tested, Green-certified, Eco-friendly, paint, that absorbs CO2 and also reduces up to 95% of indoor air pollutants?

Edenark Group is a distributor of Smog Armor paint products and we recommend these products to our clients as part of their sustainability certification, carbon neutral and ESG program, as they help you achieve your goals.

It is an easy, fun, smart and safe way to improve a work environment’s visual, emotional, environmental and human-health appeal.

Per studies by Merkle and Ginger, Corporate Sustainability and Wellness are going mainstream

• 70% of adults (18-55) care more about sustainability than they did a year earlier
• Further, companies are looking for ways to help employees address mental health
• 99% of CEOs are concerned about employee mental health
• 87% of employees report weekly stress, with 55% of this group reporting high/extreme stress
• 80% of CEOs believe poor employee mental health is negatively impacting worker productivity
• 59% of CEOs are concerned about the potential risk of a stress issue in the workplace
• 65% increase in employee use of technology-driven mental health-care tools in past year
• 76% of employees receive mental health support virtually

Edenark Group believes sustainability MUST include employee performance and wellness.  The Edenark Group ISO 14001 program is the world’s top environmental sustainability certification / carbon neutrality / ESG program for small to mid-sized enterprises and includes, via its A Better World Starts With Me program, a way for employers to help their employees become happier, healthier and more productive.

Lisa Ryan, host of the Manufacturer’s Network podcast, interviews David Goodman, CEO of Edenark Group, in Episode 14, titled, “The Profitability of Certified Sustainability”.

The interview discusses the value to a manufacturer, of becoming environmentally certified sustainable.

Then, for those manufacturers who want to investigate sustainability further and want to know what to look for in a good sustainability program for their company, this PPP provides answers.

Sea Coast Professional Window & Door( (https://www.prowinfl.com/ ), a Florida-based window and door sales and installation company has renewed its environmental sustainability commitment by renewing and extending its Edenark Group ISO 14001 sustainability certification through 2023.

The Edenark Group ISO 14001 is the world’s premier environmental sustainability certification program and allows SMEs (small to mid-sized enterprises) a program designed and priced specifically for them.

The program, which allows companies to progressively improve at a pace that works for their needs, helps the organization define how it interacts internally, externally, and with the environment.  It incorporates energy/waste/water, employee health and performance enhancement, community involvement, procurement and suppliers, compliance and regulations, emergency/security, and stakeholder engagement.  Benefits include creating a culture of continual improvement, stakeholder engagement, lower costs, higher revenues and profits, improved employee performance, and…… doing the right thing for the environment and current and future generations.

“We provide window and door design, sales, installation and service to residential and commercial clients in Florida and the Caribbean”, said Mike Modica, President of Sea Coast Professional Window & Door.  “We are a leading window and door installer and our products help reduce energy usage in the buildings we serve.  Environmental sustainability is important to our organization.  We have worked with Edenark Group for years and its leader, who has experience with high performance windows and doors, has the same high standards we have in our operation,” added Modica.

“When an organization pursues, and attains, the Edenark Group ISO 14001 sustainability certification, they are not just doing it to see their costs go down and revenues and profits go up.  They are setting a higher bar for their organization and sending a signal to all those around them,” says David Goodman, CEO of Edenark Group.  “They are agreeing to adhere to the world’s Gold standard for sustainability certification; are choosing to be a leader and part of the solution, not the problem; and are joining an elite fraternity of over 300,000 organizations, in over 150 countries, that have committed to continually improving in every way.”

Sea Coast Professional Window & Door can be reached at 954-636-6899

Edenark Group can be reached at +1 561.512.2257

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Here are the key findings from this Forbes 2023 survey on the state of sustainability:

43% of all companies consider sustainability a Top 3 priority (up from 26% in 2020)

The top 3 initiatives for these companies over the next 12 months will be

             Getting their supply chain (ie, you) sustainable

             Lowering greenhouse gas emissions (remember, you are part of their Scope 3)

             Reducing plastic waste

Companies with sustainability officers are more likely to achieve emission reduction goals

            For you, as a vendor, if they have a sustainability officer, expect a call on the above issues

Technology they believe will have a big impact on the future of sustainability

           Carbon offsets ranks #2.  Why that is important to you – you are a Scope 3 vendor

Biggest challenge

           Confusion on regulations and requirements

           Many of the standards they are working with are vague and hard to work with

Most sectors believe their efforts are helping the environment