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Who works with us?
You are a health care facility. You understand the links between air pollution and asthma. You want the facility to be energy efficient and to reduce pollution. You also know that cleaning chemicals can have harmful health impacts. You want your facility to the healthiest place it can be. You are also worried about a tight budget and escalating costs.
You are a university, college or other educational facility. Students are encouraging you to take action on your greenhouse gas emissions. They have also asked for fair trade coffee and course curricula addressing the links between globalization and poverty. You are concerned with the rising costs of utility bills on your campus. You have read about sustainable campuses and have decided that your university needs to be a leader in addressing major societal issues in its teaching and operations. You want help.
You are a small or medium sized business. You watched a program on climate change and you want to do something but you are not sure what to do. You also want to be sure that the products that you buy don't come from sweatshops, as your customers are beginning to demand this of you. You want to make sure that you create a work environment that is healthy for you employees in order to be recognized as a top employer, reduce employee turnover, increase productivity and reduce sick time and stress leave.
You are a credit union. You give a lot of money to the community. You invest in local business and ethical funds. But you want to do better. You want to ensure that every aspect of the operation is reflecting your mission to improve the lot of society. You want a systems approach.
You are a non-profit organization. You know that you are contributing to society but you don't know how much. You don't know how effective your campaigns are. You want to be sure that you walk the talk, and you want to be more accountable to your funders, donors, members, and to the community. You need a mechanism to measure and report on your successes and challenges.
You are a cooperative. You supply products to members in several provinces. You heard a presentation on corporate social responsibility and want to be sure that your cooperative is doing all that it can. You are looking for methods to evaluate the social and ecological impacts of different products; you want to be sure that the cooperative's funds are in socially responsible investments and you want to green your office.
You are a municipality. Many people in your community are considered lower income and you are looking for new economic and social opportunities. You want to inject a sense of price and self-worth in the community and to stimulate social innovation. What is this idea of a sustainable community anyway? You are looking for ideas.
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