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100% Wind Power Cheaper Than Coal

The Empire State Building has gone to 100% wind power for one reason. It is cheaper than using coal and prices are more stable. Not only are operating costs lower, but the building owners are able to attract the best tenants and higher rent because of the switch. “Clean energy and our nearly 40% reduced [...]

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Commercial Property Owners: Doing It Green Means Cash in Your Pocket

Does doing the right thing pay in the pocket book. Hell Yes! A recent study of 144 LEED Certified homes that included apartments, townhouses and duplexes and single family homes recently showed a 40% savings in utilities. 64% of the properties surveyed were NOT single family dwellings. For commercial property owners utilities can make up [...]

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After a summer hiatus, the blog is back. Here I will continue to show that sustainability is not only good for your neighbors, but good for the bottom line. A big piece of news that crossed my desk recently is that the beverage maker Sunny Delight, makers of Sunny D, Veryfine Juices and several other [...]

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Stages of ROI on Eco-efficiency

Eco-efficiency pays dividends year after year. Various practitioners have different titles and phases for implementing sustainability in organizations (and buildings for that matter). I have taken those stages and put them in financial terms. The good news is the more mature you get in the phases, the more money you make over time. 1. Pre-compliance [...]

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Employees forego pay for carbon neutrality

Think employees only care about money and time-off. Think again. New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins Colorado is most famous for its wonderful Fat Tire Amber beer. But it is also one of the leading companies in the world for creating a sustainable business. But the story of how it went to clean renewable energy [...]

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Sustainability delivers higher productivity

It has been proven over and over again that businesses that have a higher purpose than just profit can recruit and keep the best employees. Furthermore, those good employees are more productive than their counterparts in companies that are only focused on profit. But why is this so? How do you nurture those great employees [...]

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Sustainability Vision

If you think sustainability is important in our human systems, then you have some vision of what your company should be doing about it. Whether you are a line worker, middle manager or senior executive, your vision has some relationship to current reality. Here is a graphic I absconded from the excellent book “The Sustainability [...]

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More Evidence: Conscious Capitalism Pays

OK. So nobody is colder and more bottom line oriented than Wall Street. And Goldman Sachs is getting the brunt of it now. So that’s why if they say green is most profitable, it probably is. After all, The Street values profit over all else. According to a Goldman finding, “from 2005-2007, organizations that are [...]

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Speaking of Banks

Just for fun, lets say you inherited 4 million dollars from someone you didn’t know. You could live off the interest right? After taxes, say 200K per year. So long as you don’t screw with the principal, you have created a scenario of sustainable development. As a human you are still going to develop. Some [...]

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Taking Green Business to the Bank

Want to make your company more profitable with each transaction AND worth more during your exit? Then make it truly green and the money will follow. As of January 2008, a 0.15 oz tube of Burt’s Bee’s lip balm cost $3.00. The same size tube of Chapstick cost 1.69. Sure, Burt’s production costs were about [...]

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