Green Consulting

Green Consulting is Sustainable Consulting

Incorporating sustainable business practices and going green is not a cost: it is an investment. The question is not "How much will it cost me to go green?" Rather, it is "What makes the most sense for my company? What is the initial investment, and what is the return on that investment?"

greenREACH can help you find the sweet spot where environmental and social responsibility increases profits.

Green CHECK

Your Environmental, Social, and Financial Assessment Checklist

Have you been wondering if it's time to "go green"? This simple assessment can assist you in determining how an eco-friendly, socially-conscious strategy could positively impact your business' bottom line.

Green CHECK establishes a baseline and process plan for performance improvement, reporting, and measurements. Green CHECK provides:

• A list of sustainable management programs and procedures currently employed by leading organizations in your field;
• A detailed carbon inventory for your company, with specific outputs traced to specific sources;
• An Ecological Footprint that demonstrates the quantifiable environmental impact of your business;
• A quantitative summary of your waste and recycling outputs;
• A qualitative summary of your organization's impact on the community in which it operates;
• A list of key financial sustainability performance indicators.

Green STRATEGY

Once you've established your organization's environmental and social impact, you're ready to strategize on how to use green initiatives to benefit your bottom line.

How does environmental and social responsibility fit with your organizational mission? What is important to your customers? To be genuinely effective, sustainability initiatives need to be consistent with what is important to your mission and customer base. greenREACH can help you customize initiatives that fit your organization's specific needs, providing you with a step-by-step action plan to achieve sustainability goals.

Green LCA

What is the true environmental cost of your product or service? By examining the complete life cycle of your product, including raw materials, supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, use, maintenance, and end-of-life disposition, greenREACH determines the total life cycle footprint of your product or service. This assessment can be combined with a product audit to find ways to increase product quality and recycled/reused content while reducing work-related injuries, overall production energy and raw material use. The LCA process decreases production costs, expands production output, reduces environmental footprint and verifies green product claims.

Green TRAINING

Your performance depends on your employees. Their performance depends on their skills, tools, and motivation. They can be the best source of ideas to drive your sustainability program. We provide customized training designed to build the environmental, social, and business financial awareness and skills of your employees.

Green SWOT

Sustainable Business Strengths, Weakenesses, Opportunities and Threats

What would happen to your business if:

• Fuel prices doubled?
• Your key raw material was reported to be a suspected carcinogen?
• The market for green products exploded?
• A key supplier in your industry was accused of human rights violations?
• Water became a scarce resource?

If your organization is not asking the hard questions, you're running the risk of missing opportunities for gaining a competitive advantage. Positioning and preparedness can create the advantage you need to survive -- and thrive -- in today's economic conditions. greenREACH helps you prepare that strategy for success in an uncertain market climate.

WalMart Sustainability Index

Are you a WalMart supplier, or would you like to be? We can help you make sense of the newly introduced Sustainability Index, identify strategies to improve your score, and use the index to reduce costs and risks and increase new product opportunities and product quality by incorporating environmental and social performance metrics and objectives.