... your Spot Say Solve EMS/ISO 14001 training program has led to hundreds and thousands of tonnes, litres, kilos and dollars being save.SOSee Workplace Ecotraining
Sustainable Opportunities and Solutions –
environmental & economic
Each program we create is uniquely tailored to mesh with existing local organisational culture and very importantly, to build on the body of environmental achievement which already exists within an organisation.
We bring an approach which is unique in the world and has been developed over fifteen years through a prodigious amount of work with Australian communities, companies and governments. Our work reflects the thinking and initiatives of the vast number of sustainability workers with whom we have had the great privilege of collaborating. It is informed also by the cream of international sustainability innovators such as Suzuki, Prof Steve van Matre, Ehrlich, Lovelock, and the Lovinses. We believe we have created a uniquely Australian approach to the culture change mission which the new Industrial Revolution, the Sustainability Revolution, has signalled will be necessary.
Solutions and Opportunities
Solutions refers to the need to rectify and prevent... Solutions are inward looking. Solutions are compliance driven with the absolute minimum being the adherence to laws, regulations and broad community standards in relation to environmental conduct. Moving beyond pure adherence takes culture into the realm of opportunities... Opportunities are driven by workplace democracy, initiative lateral thought. An opportunity mindset is both inward and outward looking. An opportunity focus is critical for organisations such as local government, which can impact on so many layers of community, or for manufacturers who can wield influence in terms of both upstream and downstream supply chains.
Four Fundamental Principles of SeOS
Whole of workplace ideal ... from newest recruit to the CEO. The most lateral of sustainability solutions and uptake of opportunities will be commensurate with the degree to which a “we” culture exists. The democratisation of participation in workplace sustainability culture change is the engine room of such change.
Ecological Empathy is the launch pad for sustainability culture change. We start by understanding and acknowledging responsibility for the impact that we, one species, has had upon the millions of other species and the great planetary natural systems such as climate, the atmosphere and the oceans. We need also to reignite a personal connection to the exquisite beauty of the Earth. And we need to draw great hope from the increasing environmental success stories and link them to the natural places, the species and the landforms we cherish. An important segue here also is the view amongst all Australian thinkers in Sustainability, that reconciliation with Indigenous Australians will be critical to our understanding of the land and its sustainability. (Tricia Caswell ABC Radio Jan. 2002, Michael Krockenberger ACF Strategic Director at the AGTA Conference 2002, Alan Harris CEO Land Management CSIRO, Deakin Lecture, 2001)
This change is Historically important and strikes at the heart of the most profound values and aspirations we have as humans. It enables staff to understand WHY sustainability culture change is the most important workplace initiative. The most critical challenge for organisational intellect and creativity in all of human history. Highly relevant to us as people, our children, their futures, our communities and the natural places we love.
Organisational Sustainability. Shareholder value will increasingly depend on the change to an ecologically respectful culture. … no ecology/no economy … no planet/no profit. Sustainability is a close cousin of productivity and profitability. Doing more with less. Working smarter. Natural Capitalism notion. What’s more it’s all common sense, the answers are already happening, the variable is whether we are bright enough to get on board early enough. It’s about intelligence and working smarter. Einstein said, “… the solutions can not be found while we retain the mindset which created the problems.
