Radical Resource Productivity is a term coined in the book “Natural Capitalism” by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins in the 1990s. It refers to the idea that we need to improve by orders of magnitude the amount of output we get from one unit of resource input (e.g. energy, water, an acre of land, [...]
Archive for category Sustainable Waste Reduction
Subway’s Subwaste!
Dec 22
One of my MBA students recently cited an extraordinary example of unsustainable behavior at the Subway restaurant chain, an organization that prides itself on its nutritious fare, and its sustainability initiatives have been recognized in the restaurant industry (click here). He pointed out that every single sandwich served is delivered in a plastic bag. Given [...]
A terrific article in The Economist of November 12 shows why sustainability is becoming a key driver of corporate strategy in large corporations - Why Companies Go Green. There are so many good points in this one-pager (what would you expect – this IS The Economist!!!), it’s hard to know where to begin highlighting them. However, the [...]
