“Entrepreneurs for Sustainability” Helps Make Connections
The Northeast Ohio organization called “Entrepreneurs for Sustainability” is a group dedicated to connecting people, planet & prosperity. E4S helps connect people who want to start a business to people who have tools for starting the business and sustaining the business. (Watch the video, they explain it better!)
I’ve been to a couple of their functions and last month became a member of Entrepreneurs for Sustainability. I think it’s great that there is a group that’s into building a sustainable economy in Cleveland, Akron and the surrounding Northeast Ohio area.
There was powerful energy in the room — people on a mission with good ideas and ways to achieve them. This group helped me get more interested in LEED certification and I recently talked with a friend in the building industry about what it means to be LEED certified. We’ve started recycling in the office and are looking into new sustainability practices when we move our office in October. Better than that, it’s helped me to actually help make a difference in a business’s strategic marketing program by participation in that group. Sustainable business. That’s good stuff.
Maybe it is this focus on sustainability that is one of the reasons that Cleveland has moved up to Rank #16 on the 2008 U.S. City Rankings for Sustainability by SustainLane.
What are you doing to make your business more sustainable?
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:01 pm
First, it’s great to see this coming out of Ohio.
We’re a start up out of Columbus, and so far, we’re resisting the urge for a central office. We have key staff in Austin, Victoria and Vancouver - but the four of us based in Columbus continue to work from home. No commuting and only a monthly face to face meeting.
We’ll see how that continues as we grow, but being low impact is high on my list.
September 24th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Kevin:
Just checked out your Brand Thunder website and I think your Branding your Browser is a very cool idea!
I can particularly see applications in the affinity marketing segment as a premium.
Thanks for commenting.
Chris
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:53 am
I get so excited when I see companies changing how they do business to try and avoid the waste of daily operations.
We recycle paper, cans, glass, metal, cardboard and all the CD discs we use in a regular course of a software company.
We have reusable batteries, pay for bus passes for people who want to use alternative transportation, phased out a large number of paper products by buying glassware for coffee drinkers. We’ve also switched to 100% recycled paper and soy inks with all of our business cards and letterhead.
We’re looking for other ways to be more efficient in our energy usage and cut down on our carbon footprint.
Every little bit counts!