Key Benefits of Sustainability Practices in the Workplace
Listen to a run-down of podcasts or look at the top articles on Google and it is easy to spot something on sustainability. People want sustainable homes, organizations want to create sustainable workplaces, governments want sustainable public spaces. It’s an excellent idea to create more sustainability in our work, life and play spaces, but in order to do so, we must first determine what sustainability means to us. If we consider workplaces and what sustainability can mean, someone who has taken environmental science courses may be focused on reducing the impact the organization has on various bodies of water. Alternatively, an individual with ISO certification is going to be more interested in processes and may have an increased interest in reducing volumes of packaging from a sustainability and space-saving mindset. A person who has gone through the LEED Green Associate exam prep is going to be centred on how a building is created or modified to create sustainability. ...