Is It Sustainable?
Is it Sustainable? Do you know? Have you ever wondered how long can we continue polluting the atmosphere, the rivers, sea and soils? Plus continue to use and throw away resources without something getting out of balance?
How long can we continue business as usual?
Are you wondering how the current political debate/standoff is actually affecting this?
The question should not be which climate scheme but what is the best plan we can come up with for Australia and we certainly have not got this yet.
I would love to see a mix of both these schemes with incentives plus a price for excessive waste because I do think that carrots generally work better than sticks. I would rather see people working out how to minimise a problem that how to get around the issue with red tape patches.
So where do you think your business should go from here?
Environmental sustainability part of whole of business sustainability and it is about identifying and managing all your environmental risks, then building a simple system with feedback so that you can continue to mage these risks effectively.
It is certainly not about spending lots of money so that you harm your financial sustainability and its not about removing all your environmental risks because this is often not possible – it is about managing them
Environmental sustainability requires a degree of pragmatism because the world is not going to be a perfect place
My suggestion is that ISO 14001 is a great tool to help you build environmental sustainability into your business and it is very easily integrated with your existing systems and other needs like quality (customer satisfaction mainly) and safety.
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