Category Archives: Sustainability Specialist Guides

What is Sustainable Governance? Sustainable governance can be defined as a method for dealing with a broad range of conflicts to achieve mutually satisfactory and binding agreements through negotiations and cooperation.  This method includes the creation and implementation of rules...

Corporate Sustainability Consulting assists companies in creating, implementing and managing global sustainability initiatives and policies.  From company operations to product design, our sustainability consulting services pinpoint areas for improvement and details possible solutions in regards to energy efficiency, carbon emissions,...

What is Sustainable Manufacturing? Sustainable manufacturing is defined as the creation of manufactured products that use processes that minimize negative environmental impacts, conserve energy and natural resources, are safe for employees, communities, and consumers and are economically sound.  The overall...

Why Green Healthcare? With "first do no harm" as the most fundamental precept of the profession, health care organizations are well positioned to ensure environmental health is a key component of sustainability. They can lead the building industry in designing...

Energy, and in particular oil and gas, has never been as high on the public agenda as it is today.  The reduction in the world’s known oil and gas reserves, security of supply issues and increased climate change concerns have...

Sustainable finance and investment is a relatively new concept, but it is basically an innovative way of reconciling environmental preservation and social responsibility with economic activity, and then adding value to it all. Sustainable finance is a sophisticated way of...

Management of waste is a basic requirement of ecologically sustainable development. In an effort to reduce adverse environmental effects, sustainable waste management involves the more efficient management of waste material through: monitoringcollectiontransportprocessing and recyclingdisposal  Waste materials can originate from a...

Supermarkets and other retail outlets are playing an increasingly important role in our lives. Retail stores and the expanding number of malls in which they are found change the function and appearance of the urban environment by providing a natural...

Sustainable Development is a compact, efficient, and environmentally sensitive pattern of development that provides people with additional travel, housing, and employment choices by focusing future growth away from rural areas and closer to existing and planned job centers and public...