Sustainability Is Difficult To Measure
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Andrew Savitz is a creative business leader, advisor, author and speaker, with over 20 years of hands-on experience assisting corporation to become leaders in sustainability and environmental performance and reporting. An internationally known expert on corporate social responsibility and sustainability, Savitz is the author of The Triple Bottom Line: How the Best Run Companies are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success - and How You Can Too (Wiley, August 2006).
As a lead partner in PricewaterhouseCooper's global Sustainability Business Services practice, Savitz was PwC's liaison delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and represented the firm on environmental and sustainability related matters at the Conference Board. Savitz authored PwC's widely cited 2002 Sustainability Survey- the first of its kind in the United States.
Now working as a senior consultant at Sustainable Business Strategies, Savitz assists companies to assess, design, develop and implement sustainability programs from vision to reporting, including policies, procedures and programs related to human rights, supply chain management, HIV/AIDS, political contributions, environmental, health and safety management and compliance, community and investor relations, codes of conduct, and international and national standards and guidelines including the United Nations Global Compact, the Global Reporting Initiative, the CERES principles, the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, and the McBride principles.
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Bullshit on the energy balance -- simply do a back of the envelope
ENBUS202 3 months ago
Environmental performance and reporting and Business Strategies are complicated. Subsidies and bail outs are complicated. Saying the customer(s) is (are) responsible for businesses lacks is complcated.
gaiagale 2 years ago
interesting! I'll return to read the (more info)
Quick comment re: the dollar factor being easy to measure. This is the single most important statement accepted as truth which in fact is a fabrication which hides the truth so effectively that sustainability analists are stymied as to solutions for sustainability. Sustainability is simple.
gaiagale 2 years ago