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“People, Planet and Profit” succinctly describes the triple bottom lines and the goal of sustainability. Enviro Board Corporation is a triple bottom line business.

“People” (human capital) pertains to fair and beneficial business practices toward labour and the community and region in which Enviro Board Corporation conducts its business. Enviro Board Corporation conceives a reciprocal social structure in which the well-being of corporate, labour and other stakeholder interests are interdependent.

“Planet” (natural capital) refers to sustainable environmental practices. Enviro Board ...

My favorite quote from Mahandas Gandi was ” You must be the change you wish to see in the world”, in terms of the green movement it starts with Micro-sustainability which focuses on the small environmental actions that when calculated collectively result in a large environmental impact. Micro-sustainability centers on individual efforts, behavior modification and creating attitudinal changes, which result in an environmentally conscious business, individual’s or community.

Micro-sustainability encourages sustainable changes through change agents, which are individuals that are encouraged; ...

McGraw-Hill Construction Research & Analytics came out with a Green Building SmartMarket Report. It stated that the projected annual domestic growth rates for green buildings are as follows;

Market Sector             Growth Rate

Education                             65%

Government                         62%

Institutional           ...

According to the USGBC, buildings directly account for 12 percent of all fresh water use, 30 percent of all raw materials, 30 percent of all greenhouse emissions( the indirect effects of materials and transportation account for another 18 percent), 45 to 65% of waste outputs to landfills, 31 percent of all mercury in solid waste, and 70 percent of all electricity consumption.

 According to NASA climate scientist James Hansen, the continuation of “business as usual” in ...

I thought business consultant Michael Porter, of the Harvard Business School, had some great insight when he cautioned in the Harvard Business Review, ” We are now in a transitional phase of industrial history in which companies are still inexperienced in handling environmental issues creatively…The early movers-the companies that can see the opportunity first and embrace innovative-based solutions-will reap major competitive advantages, just as the Germans and Japanese car makers did  [with fuel-efficient cars in the early 1970s]. ...

Streamlining approvals and avoiding legal delays, is in fact, becoming one of the most important drivers of green development. Building in an environmentally responsive way using Enviro Board products decreases the development time line, saving money in the process by reducing your building development carrying costs. 

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