Sustainability - November 24, 2011

Above: Graphic from EnvironmentalLeader.com.

Sustainable Pieces

Hotels: There is a new green group in the hotel industry—the National Sustainable Lodging Network, according to an article on GreenBiz.com.

How to make it “everyone’s job:” According to GreenBiz.com, a Canadian-owned insurance provider “has figured out a systems approach to embedding sustainability into everyone's job.”

JLL’s take on “corporate transformation via sustainability:” In a blog post, Dan Probst of the energy and sustainability services arm of real estate giant Jones Lang Lasalle, writes, “Becoming a sustainable company is more than just recycling and reducing energy, though. To achieve breakthrough performance, companies must create a collaborative process that involves key internal stakeholders from HR and IT to business units, as well as suppliers and customers.”

Small companies are working on it: Three accounting institutes from Canada, the U.K., and the U.S. found that “23% of smaller companies have plans to formulate a strategy in the next two years, and 33% have a sustainability strategy in place already,” according to EnvironmentalLeader.com.

Sustainability Awards: The Department of Energy’s (DOE) sustainable initiatives saved more than $4 million in FY10, the agency claimed, in a news release about its 2011 DOE awards.