What is Sustainability?

‘We've found a new way to win in the marketplace — one that doesn't come at the expense of our grandchildren or the earth, but at the expense of the inefficient competitor.’

Ray Anderson
CEO, Interface Inc.

Sustainability is the “win-win-win” that we have been searching for. It has been called the “triple bottom-line” that recognizes the underlying operating systems that connect people, planet and the economy.

Today businesses are enjoying superior profits and competitive advantage by “greening” their bottom and top-line profits, decreasing their environmental footprint and improving “quality of life” for employees, customers and communities.

Sustainability – done right – pays. It brings anticipated and unanticipated emergent benefits and has been so successful that for many businesses sustainability strategies have transformed cost centres to profit centres.

Sustainability in the Industrial, Commercial and Institutional Sectors:

Read: What is Sustainability? A Sustainability Solution’s Paper by Jeffrey Hollender, Co-founder, Seventh Generation Inc.

 

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