Client: Canadian Co-operative Association

Timeline: January – May 2010

The Project

SSG created a toolkit guide to provide a roadmap and toolbox to help co-operatives reduce their overall environmental impact. This was the second part of an environmental sustainability toolkit guide, providing an environmental sustainability operational framework for co-operatives to deploy to improve their overall environmental performance, continuing to lead by example.

The guide consists of eleven sections including:

• Management Systems
• Buildings
• Energy and Climate Change
• Materials and Waste Management
• Purchasing
• Food
• Transportation
• Water
• Air Quality
• Marketing
• Organizations and Networks

Our Role

• SSG created the on-line toolkit that is now currently available on the Canadian Co-operative Association website:

http://www.coopscanada.coop/en/about_co-operative/Environmental-Sustainability/Sustainabilitytoolkitpart-2

Our Approach

• Our research examines the costs and benefits of different strategies, the resources required to implement these strategies, potential challenges, best practices, as well as examines a wide range of case studies of organizations that have attempted different strategies.