We show companies how to strategically design and integrate sustainable practices into their products, services and processes, in their own facilities and throughout their supply chain.

For over 20 years we’ve been helping companies protect the environment, keep people safe and deliver social value – the cornerstones of Sustainability – while reducing costs, enhancing their reputation, and not just meeting, but exceeding the growing requirements and expectations of government, industry and their customers.

Our approach is pragmatic – we can transform a sustainability strategy into a clear, achievable action plan, and then provide the expert technical skills to implement sustainable solutions.

In helping corporations design and implement sustainability, we have found the roadmap typically follows this path:

1. Create Strategy

Define Priorities: What areas matter to us from an environmental, social and economic standpoint?
External Assessment: What are others doing, and what do customers and regulators expect of us?
Internal Assessment: What is our estimated baseline impact and risk (GHG, water, chemicals, hazardous waste, safety, community impact)?
Define Targets and Gap: What are our key targets?  Gaps between current state and targets? What initiatives need to be put in place?
How Will We Make it Happen? Governance Structure, Resources and Investments

2. Capture Low-Hanging Fruit

Infrastructure: Put in place governance and measurement structure, including information system solution.
Baseline and Report: Perform detailed environmental inventory and put reporting structure in place.  Draft first sustainability report.
Capture Efficiencies: Energy efficiencies and reductions, waste reduction or reuse potential, travel reductions, IT efficiencies, local green teams
Measure Results: Capture savings and environmental impacts.

3. Create Market Opportunity

Market Opportunity Assessment: What ‘green’, sustainability, environmental or social responsibility services or products do our customers want that we may not be delivering?  What global, social and environmental problems are emerging that we are in a unique position to address?
Product and Service Reformulation: How can we deliver our products and services in a more environmentally and socially responsible way?
Service Development: What services do our customers or target markets buy that could be replaced with a more sustainable service that we could deliver?
New Markets: Are we capturing market opportunity with developing market customers at differing price points?

4. Address Stakeholder Impacts

Supplier Responsibility: Assess supplier labor, economic and environmental status and requirements.  Perform supplier audits and manage corrective actions.  Determine future sourcing requirements. Address supplier community impacts and development.
Public Advocacy: Is our public policy and advocacy position consistent with our responsibility goals? 
Partnership Strategy: Engage in industry and other partnerships to standardize and drive more efficient change.  Expand NGO and government partnerships to create market, political and customer opportunity.
Customer Influence: Enhance brand loyalty and sustainability impact through engagement with customer or customers’ customers behavior.

 

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While we have experience in all four of the path elements outlined here, we specialize in the following areas:

• Strategy development
• Environmental impact measurement
• Sustainable buildings / LEED
• Reporting and data management
• Supplier responsibility measurement, standards, auditing and implementation

We have particular technical expertise in the high tech, biotech, solar and manufacturing industries.

We’d love to talk to you about your sustainability goals. Please contact us for more information or to speak with an EORM sustainability services consultant.

Focus Area

Sustainability Strategy

• Environmental and/or social responsibility strategies and implementation plans
• Market studies
• Stakeholder analysis
• Communications strategies
• Employee training

Environmental Impact Analysis and Reduction

• Direct and indirect greenhouse emissions
• Direct and indirect energy consumption
• Water consumption and quality
• Solid waste (hazardous and non-hazardous) and packaging
• Green chemistry and toxicity footprinting

Sustainability Data Management and Communication

• Environmental and/or social responsibility data collection, analysis and reporting
• Reporting based on standards such as GRI and UN Global Compact
• Data management software selection and/or implementation

Supplier Responsibility

• Supplier or global responsibility strategy and standards development (including environmental, health and safety and social welfare)
• Auditing and corrective action oversight
• Other voluntary corporate or industry standards compliance (including EPEAT, EICC and PSCI)

Sustainable Buildings

• LEED assessment, auditing and certification
• Operational efficiency analysis and implementation
• Design for environmental, health and safety

Standards Development or Assurance

• Environmental and/or social responsibility standards development
• Standards auditing or implementation that go beyond compliance, including ISO 26000, EPEAT, EICC, PSCI and other voluntary standards

Product Responsibility

• 'Design For Environment’
• Lifecycle analysis
• Environmental product declarations or subcomponents thereof (product environmental, safety or social responsibility analysis)

Social or Community Responsibility

• Human rights
• Labor practices
• Local community impacts