Carbon Neutral Online Shopping – How Green are Mail Order Companies?
August 29, 2012 7 CommentsIn the last 150 years, three major trends have changed the way humanity consumes. First, industrialization shifted production from self-sufficiency to consumerism. Second, ongoing economic development allowed local economies to expand across entire countries, which was followed by globalization and worldwide markets. Globalization started with colonial powers trading goods between continents and h...
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Why SMEs Should Foster, Not Fear the Corporate Carbon Footprint
March 22, 2012Most firms are occupied with selling products and meeting payroll and feel they don't have time or aren't all that impassioned about "saving the world." However, ignoring sustainability is not really an option. So states Blair Gifford in the book "A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses". Needless to say, I totally agree. Well, in order to be clear and precise, ignoring sustainability is of course an option, but it's a pretty silly one. Why? Because you miss enormous opportunities! As Wolfgang Wimmer, Kun-Mo Lee, Ferdinand Quella and Jo...
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What is Carbon Footprinting and Why Does it Facilitate Effective ...
February 18, 2012Costs to the environment, generated throughout your company's production process, can be assessed in different ways, just as its financial costs can be. One of these methods, probably the most convenient and yet a still exact one, is the carbon footprint. The carbon footprint concentrates on one environmental impact factor only - this factor is the climate related emission, measured in one unit, kilogram CO2-equivalent. As I illustrated in my article on the parallels of carbon footprinting with cost accounting, there are several advantages in connection with the use of a single score method...
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Why the Carbon Tax Makes Sense and How to Gain a Competitive Edge ...
January 21, 2012 3 CommentsInstead of hoping that your lobbyist negotiates another carbon tax exemption for your industry, you could be preparing your business for the low-carbon era. A decisive competitive edge can be expected for those businesses that begin managing and thus professionally reducing their carbon emissions now, rather than maintaining outdated oil age thinking - read how to do this here. Furthermore, get an introduction to the carbon tax, how high we can expect it to go, and why you should invest in green technology. In order to reward companies that employ low carbon technology, the carbon tax is in...
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3 Precise Perspectives on Corporate Carbon Footprints
November 4, 2011 2 CommentsAs business consultant in the field of sustainability, I would like to share with you three findings that I made in Central and South America, working with companies willing to reduce their carbon emissions. Since the awareness of global warming becomes omnipresent, more and more companies try to evaluate their share. In my opinion, the best measure to know the flow of carbon emissions, is the Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCF). Why? Because the CCF is the ideal instrument not only to measure carbon emissions, but also to define goals and strategies for reducing the company's impact on climate c...
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