Small Business Sustainability: Still Uncharted Territory

Whenever a business takes that first noble step to “go green,” they invariably enter a world of complex trade-offs that extend far beyond traditional cost-benefit analyses. How do we identify the emerging sustainability issues in our business sector and prioritize the wide range of strategies available to address them? How do we reduce our environmental [...]

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Josh Interviewed at Green Drinks

Regulars on the Victoria green scene, Josh and Kyle attend the monthly Green Drinks events. This week Josh was interviewed by Christopher Bowers as part of his What’s Gone Well Today video series. Christopher asked Josh to highlight “what’s going well” for him; the theme is part of his work with Vancity’s ChangeEverything.ca. Josh took [...]

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Apple’s Carbon Footprint Revealed

Last month Apple reveled the Apple and the Environment site that details environmental impact information on both products and the company. Here at Small Feet Inc, we get all giddy when we see companies choosing to make information regarding their carbon footprint publicly available. It’s true that we’ve entered a new era of business when [...]

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Climate Action: Strategic Business Advantage

I’ve read two interesting articles on business’ preparedness for monetizing carbon, and the resulting business advantages in reducing carbon emissions. A BSR article made a good point – managing your business’ carbon footprint is “no great feat.” “It’s not mechanically hard to manage greenhouse gases (GHG), the key ingredient to climate change. There’s a saying [...]

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Carbon Footprint of Compostable Dishes

StalkMarket is a Portland based business that designs and manufactures dish ware made from the waste of sugar cane refineries. Although StalkMarket produces a range of compostable products, they have only determined the carbon footprint for their sugarcane based bowls and plates. One pound of bowls and plates produce 6 lbs (2.72 kg) of carbon [...]

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Carbon Disclosure Grows as Results are Shared

Most companies that currently report their carbon footprint do so on a voluntary basis. The Carbon Disclosure Project is the organization holding the world’s largest database of corporate carbon data. “Thousands of organizations from across the world’s major economies measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies through CDP. We put this [...]

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