Sustainable Business Practices : Monterey Bay Area Green Business Program

Businesses who participate in environmentally friendly practices will become more profitable. There are difficulties and costs that a business will face and profit takes time but is proven to positively impact a business. “The reluctance to address the forces that are polluting the planet always comes down to money (Smith, “6 Reasons Nations Don't Go Green.”). Implementing environmentally friendly practices within a company “will win them customers, and increase profits” (McDonald, “Why Do (or Don’t) Companies Go Green?”). Many global companies today carry out environmental management tools to adapt to environmentally friendly practices, which helps gain customers, and in turn becomes more profitable. In this paper, I will go into further detail explaining why businesses should be more environmentally friendly, the benefits to be gained, costs that come with being environmentally friendly, and management ways that help a company become environmentally friendly.

The main purposes of this talk are to share a powerful vision for sustainable commerce and business logics of sustainability.

Non-profit organizations promote the usage of green products and services by communities, and encourage commercial business to adopt sustainable business practices. Their main focus is to ensure that the communities get access to information about green products and services. More over, the organizations monitor how business implements their sustainable activities to improve environment condition and preventing climate change. Further more, these organizations campaign actively about clean technology, energy-efficiency, and promoting organic products. These activities would improve understanding of communities on sustainable activities by providing them variety of solutions tackling climate change problems. Most of these activities can take place if the organizations receive donations from the various parties that share the same interest in protecting the environment.

For more than a decade, WRI’s Sustainable Enterprise Program (SEP) has harnessed the power of business to create profitable solutions to environment and development challenges. BELL, a project of SEP, is focused on working with managers and academics to make companies more competitive by approaching social and environmental challenges as unmet

The world faces many issues, but the most important which will affect people living on this planet is that it is slowly deteriorating. Pollution, excessive greenhouse gases, and the ozone layer depletion are causing the environment to slowly degrade and cause chronic and fatal health issues such as cancer. One of the main ways to help the environment be a better place is by having businesses be more environmentally friendly. Businesses don’t have to put a lot of effort in helping the environment, but instead small changes can make a big difference. Businesses can help the environment by reducing their carbon emissions, reducing carbon capping, reducing pollution, and reducing the amount of greenhouse gasses that are being emitted into the air. Businesses helping the environment could also save money for the company and make the world a better place.

The sustainable businesses are the trusted and the transparent business that appeal to the wider stakeholders and the investors. On the other hand, the environmental sustainability has a correlation with the esteem of the brand. The talent pool plays the crucial role in the success of the project, and the company needs the employees with the personal vision in addition to the soft skills. So the formula of the Earth Care Project can look as follows (‘Phase 2' = ‘talent pool and coach'+ ‘new sustainable goals'+ ‘continuous improvement'). Phase 3: (‘Phase 3' = ‘CBO, CIO’ + ‘sustainable building materials, labor, and appliances '+‘brand management'+ ‘the investors' website'+ ‘fundraising') →(‘preparation to acquisition by the larger chain of

The world is calling to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment. “The term sustainable development means different things to different people. But, in essence, it is concerned with meeting the needs of people today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2014). Furthermore, sustainable development is a compelling idea for many people. It is concerned with how business can contribute to some of the most significant challenges that the world faces today, such as the

Change is not an easy thing to put into operation. These days the majority of businesses are creating sustainability goals and initiatives a priority. According to ‘‘Mc Kinsey Global survey on The Business of Sustainability’’ (2011), ‘‘57% of respondents say their companies have included sustainability in to their strategic plan; 67% say that sustainability has included in to mission and values; and 60% say that sustainability has included in to external communications’’. But to provide resources to the company, leaders and managers need to show some value added of sustainability and build a strategy around it. Sustainable development includes economic, financial, environment and social aspects. To achieve environmental sustainability economic factors have to play a significant role to determine the suitable actions (Stoker,

In contemporary society, the importance of sustainability has aroused public attention and debate. This is because pollution is growing day-by-day with every second that time passes. It is like a bad dream that not only destroys our environment but also ruins our ecosystem and life cycle. Every single living, as well as the non-living creature, is affected by pollution. Therefore, due to increasing community concern firms are constantly in search of solutions to the existing environmental issues on sustainability management. They achieve this using economic incentives as well as partnerships with various organizations (Wright 83). Businesses claim sustainability as a means of improvement for both the organization and its stakeholders. It can be achieved by the government, corporation and society working together to achieve long-term goals.

Environmental issues influence all human activities and even more influent the business, especially true in marketing. As society becomes more concerned with the natural environment, businesses have begun to modify their behavior in an attempt to address society 's new concerns, which is the global warming. Some businesses have been quick to accept concepts like environmental management systems and waste minimization, and have integrated environmental issues into all organizational activities. We also

The sustainable and Green Businesses are businesses that focus on having business that oriented in green products and services. Before starting their business, the company has to get money to fund the business that focus in improving good environment but at the same time have to make profit. The business also can using clean technology and energy efficiency company, which means that they are also taking part in helping climate change. By having business in organic products will also help community to be aware in having product that help or sustainable programs that will have an impact on the environment. They also include all companies that focus on clean tech products , green building. Their job is to improve their sustainability programs and have a social impact on the society. Most of the organizations in this customer segment are located in San Francisco, California. Green business also includes all businesses that their business can also be involved or committed to sustainable management practices that involved in preserving environment. Influence

With increased concern about education, health issues, climate change, depleting natural resources, and social development, a new corporation needs to tailor its operations to be as environmental friendly as possible and to tackle the needs of its customers and its employees by providing its employees with hand-on trainings and allowing them to grow financially, emotionally, and professionally. This is done by incorporating sustainability at the core of the business and not only as a peripheral choice. It needs to consider its customers as kings and to tailor its operations to tackle their needs and concerns.

Thereupon, employees were requested to come up with proposals about how the firm could reduce its carbon footprint by up to 25 percent. This report, therefore, was prepared in response to this request, and it is intended to provide the management with the ideal strategy that the organization could use as part of the efforts aimed at embracing green initiatives. It is expected that the information contained herein will go a long way in helping the leadership adopt an effective strategy that could be used to realize the company’s objectives as far as conserving the environment is concerned. In this case, the ideal alternative would be to engage in the recycling of waste material.

Few years ago when climate change really started to come into focus and people began to think how to protect our mother Earth and of  the ways to create a sustainable hospitality industry, many hotels and resorts started  their green programs  being a first choice for many guests and travelers since last decade.

Over the last few years, the concept of green business has continued to grow in relevance as well as in significance. The same concept has been a topic of much debate in the academic in terms of theory building, research as well as in the corporate world. The main argument is that the businesses have certain social responsibilities which are beyond the profit making motive with regard to the shareholders and the same has been around for decades now. Within a free enterprise environment as well as a private property establishment, business persons own the businesses and have direct responsibilities of their operations. This responsibility is to conduct various business related activities as per required accordance coupled with