Carbon Footprinting
Return on Sustainability - the Book
Testimonials
“SBC was responsive and provided valuable insight. They have a true grasp of the financial aspect of sustainability and helped us with our CSR reporting and in identifying quantifiable metrics to track our sustainability performance.”
Letitia Ferrier Webster, Director Corporate Sustainability & Communications, The North Face/VF Outdoor Group
"In 2010, Brooks embarked on a journey to gain an understanding of our operational foot print in order to establish long-term sustainability goals which would become the north star of our future efforts. SBC was a valuable asset to that process.
The team at SBC did an excellent job of:
• Laying out the data priorities and tasks to get the report accomplished
• Meeting our timeline and working with our available data
• Conducting and compiling surveys to capture operational impacts that engaged our employees in the process
• Collaborating with a secondary consulting group that performed a product footprint, which was rolled into the operational footprint
• Presenting information that is easily digestible for senior management yet tactically rich for goal setting
• Invoking dialogue that opens doors to greater operational insights
• Delivering a polished report that met our expectations"
Chase Mueller, Footwear Operations Manager
"SBC sets themselves apart from other sustainability consultants with their keen understanding of the business side of the equation. Their team is able to look at the world from an executive’s viewpoint and craft green imperatives in a way that align with the bottom-line and the organization’s existing priorities. When it comes to developing sustainability initiatives, SBC’s practical, real-world guidance will move your stakeholders from asking “Why would we?” to a place where they start asking “How could we not?”"
Brad Simcox, Market Manager - Retail and Consumer Channel. Energy Efficiency Services, Puget Sound Energy
"SBCs top-notch facilitation and strategic planning skills helped us cut through the myriad of potential opportunities, and enabled us to get down to work with an achievable action plan."
Brian Surratt, City of Seattle, Office of Economic Development
"I have been working with Sustainable Business Consulting over the past year and a half. Their team of experts has empowered us with the tools and information we need to manage our sustainability and climate initiatives internally. They measured our carbon footprint and helped us create a climate action plan, then trained us to manage this process going forward. Now they are walking us through our first-ever corporate social responsibility report.
SBC is responsive, action-oriented, fun to work with, and truly understands our needs. SBC is a perfect sustainable business partner for BECU."
Karen Stevens, Corporate Strategy Planning, BECU
"SBC was quick to grasp our global sustainability needs and aspirations. They led with insightful inquiry and offered the expert counsel we needed to work through our first carbon footprint and CSR report. What we thought would be a complex process was made vastly easier because of their ability to help us navigate between what was and wasn’t important for our needs and available resources. They have been a joy to work with – honest, knowledgeable and committed to going the extra mile to exceed our expectations.”
Heidi ReysVice President, Corporate Strategy and Sustainability, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide
"Sustainability was very new and a bit intimidating to our company when we began working with SBC. They guided and supported our early efforts helping us build confidence and sophistication along the way.
SBC's team skillfully assessed our company's operations and sustainability performance by navigating through mountains of data to measure our baseline and uncovering inspiring stories and innovative solutions along the way. By demonstrating their commitment to helping us succeed, SBC built a strong partnership with us, which is something larger firms could not provide. We're very much looking forward to working with them again as we continue on this path.”
Nicole Trimble, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility,Coinstar, Inc.
“SBC’s team provided invaluable counsel and expertise in helping drugstore.com measure our operational carbon footprint, and guide us through our first internal CSR report. No small feat, for either one. In addition, SBC helped us develop communications around eco-efficiencies for employees both at work and at home. SBC's breadth of knowledge and overall approach fostered collaboration, innovation and support that kept the projects progressing -- and even fun. All of which helped make our projects with them great successes. I look forward to working with them for more!.”
Corky Parker, Director of Corporate Sustainability, drugstore.com
“SBC catalyzed our sustainability efforts and really help us take it to a new level within our company. They performed a company footprint to assess our company’s climate impacts, but they also looked at how we were communicating and implementing our efforts internally. They helped us find new business opportunities in the clean energy space, educated our employees and helped us identify and implement over 50+ ideas for how we could make our operations more sustainable. They are great to work with; they bring both expertise and a sense of humor to the job which makes this work not only rewarding, but fun”
Michael Thomas, Chief of Operations, Cochran Technologies
“Sustainable Business Consulting has been tremendous to work with. They have been responsive to our needs as a client and have often anticipated our needs. They wrote the original business plan for the Seattle Climate Partnership. They have been instrumental in our success by both co-developing our leading carbon footprint calculator and by creating a series of sector specific guidebooks. These guidebooks are designed to show companies how they can reduce their climate impact and save money at the same time. The people at SBC are fun, dedicated, and always go the extra mile. We consider them a very valuable Partner in our success and in helping reduce the carbon footprint of the Seattle business community.”
Charlie Cunniff, Director, Seattle Climate Partnership
"Fighting climate change is extremely important to Verity Credit Union’s members and staff. SBC helped us to see how we could take a leadership role by conducting our first carbon footprint, helping us identify reduction goals appropriate for our vision and develop a practical, achievable implementation plan."
John Zmolek, Executive Vice President, Verity Credit Union
"We asked Sustainable Business Consulting to help our company become more profitable and efficient. It was a very tall order, and SBC pulled it off masterfully. They understand business, they understand people, and they listen to truly understand your problems. They brought energy, objectivity, and a focus to each job and when we were finished working together, our company was indeed stronger and more profitable."
Joan Weber, Co-Founder, Journeys International
"SBC was incredibly rewarding to work with. They are experts in their field
and provided us with exactly what we needed in a cost-effective, timely manner.
From the point that we put our GHG inventory out to bid and throughout implementation, they delivered a clear and concise proposal to calculate our GHG
inventory, identified areas for improvement, established internal tracking
systems and provided training to a colleague and myself that has allowed us to
become self-sufficient moving forward.The latter being a rare practice in an
industry that thrives on return business but it is exactly that unique value
proposition that will keep us coming back for future sustainability consulting
needs."
Christian Blue, Sustainability Council - Regional Manager, Better World Books
"Through our work with Sustainable Business Consulting we realized there were significant amounts of 'low hanging fruit' available to us, as well as a straightforward path to harvesting and prioritizing them. SBC helped us sort through a seeming myriad of ideas and opportunities that heretofore had kept us going in all directions at once.
The key benefit Newground has derived from its work with Sustainable Business Consulting is that through a thorough, fun and intuitive planning process we now have more time, greater focus and a clear pathway toward enhanced profitability. What a terrific set of take-aways!"
Bruce Herbert, President, Newground Social Investment
