Compliance

Compliance can be the first step to sustainability. Compliance can be achieved through a commitment to social expectations and the law or simply by observing the letter of a law. For businesses striving to achieve restorative, sustainable practices, compliance becomes not a motivation, but simply a minimum baseline against which to measure achievable cost savings increases in profitability, market share, share price, and stockholders’ equity.  Read More

Best Practices

A set of learned practices and procedures an organization finds successful in accomplishing its goals. Best practices are most successful when clearly described or codified, part of employee training, and shared throughout an organization. These are sometimes shared with partners and competitors in order to set standards for an industry.  Read More

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Zero Waste

The goal of developing products and services, managing their use and deployment, and creating recycling systems and markets in order to eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials and conserve and recover all resources. Implementing zero waste eliminates all discharges to land, water, or air that may be a threat to planetary, human, animal or plant health. Many cities and states already have set zero-waste goals. For example, San Francisco... Read More

Waste Reduction

The process of reducing waste material and energy in manufacturing, use, and disposal by techniques such as dematerialization, transmaterialization, recycling, sustainable design, closed-loop supply chains, etc.  Read More

Virtual Organization

A network of individuals and organizations that coordinates the development, manufacturing, sales, distribution, and servicing of products or services and operate as a single entity with a common goal. A corporation can operate virtually as can a network of companies or organizations.  Read More

Value-added

The additional value, in customer terms, created at a particular stage of production.  Read More