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Sustainability Explained
Sus·tain·a·bil·ity[suh-stey-nuh–bil-i-tee] noun
1. The ability to be sustained, supported, upheld orconfirmed.
2. Environmental Science. The quality of not beingharmful to the environment or depleting natural
resources, and thereby supporting long-termecological balance.
Sustainability By now, most everyone has heard the word,
whether it was in a business meeting, presentationor otherwise.
What does it really mean for a corporation toembrace sustainability--it’s not enough to have and
use recycling bins, that is only a drop in thepreverbal polluted ocean when it comes to
corporate sustainability.
Corporate Sustainability Start with these two questions:
“Who are we as a company?”“What is the expectation of our end user?”
Steven Prokesch of the Harvard Business Reviewclaimed "successful companies who survive overmany decades understand that they are a humancommunity first, and a money making machine
second."
Corporate Sustainability
Making a positive impact on the community andthe environment can start at work.
Setting examples and best practices at theworkplace can cause sustainable actions to carry
over from your employees/coworkers work lives totheir personal lives.
Supply Chain Sustainability
What is coming in and going out of our facility, andhow it’s being transported, can be as much as 80-90percent of a company’s overall “carbon footprint.”
Despite all that is done in offices andmanufacturing plants, if the focus is not on the
Supply Chain’s carbon footprint, the largestopportunity for change is being ignored.
Farmer Bros SustainabilityAt Farmer Brothers, we are in the process ofbuilding the first LEED (Lead in Energy &
Environmental Design) Certified Headquarters inthe industry.
In our offices, we will be harvesting daylight,implementing new waste management plans, going
paperless, utilizing solar energy and waterefficiency plans.
What Can You Do?Look at your supply chains and see where it is easy
to cut back with fuel efficiency, packaging,electrical use, better vehicle maintenance, and
replacement of old and out dated equipment that isnot as energy efficient replacing it with newer
energy efficient equipment.
Changing out old lighting and replacing it withLED lighting in a warehouse can often pay for itself
in energy savings in just a couple of years.
