The Danger Of Doing Sustainable Without Data: A Practical Example
It happens more often than you think. Companies claim to be sustainable- just because they perceive certain actions as sustainable. Often this goes together with actions that look good to external stakeholders. But- how do you know if what you are doing is actually making your company more sustainable? Making decisions based on…what? The principle […]
5 Tips To Involve Your Entire Company In Sustainable Change
Your company’s baseline environmental measurements are done. You created your impact reduction measures. Now, how and what do you tell your employees? Organizations often struggle with effectively communicating the urgency and underlying motives behind their sustainable developments to employees. One of the factors that decrease the successful implementation of sustainability- is that top management often […]
How Dura Vermeer uses Ecochain Helix to measure & improve the footprint of 500+ products
‘Connecting in action, and moving forward sustainably’ A family-owned company at the beating heart of Dutch housing, utility construction, and infrastructure. With €1.5 billion in sales and over 2,800 employees, *Dura Vermeer is in the top ten companies of the Dutch construction industry. And with large private and public clients like Rijkswaterstaat, ProRail, provinces, and […]
Carbon Tunnel Vision: Are You Excluding Crucial Environmental Data?
Carbon footprints often make up the largest impact hotspot in a company’s operations. And greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are THE term that is linked to the climate crisis. But, our ecosystems are made up of many different factors that all support each other as a cohesive whole. And- the same goes for the impact your […]
IPCC’s: Ambitious Immediate Climate Action Is Needed. What Can Business Leaders Do?
Although the message of the IPCC released at the beginning of August wasn’t a surprise compared to that of 2013- its contents are still very unsettling. Our natural world is heating up at an unnatural speed. And as we can currently already see- this process has many different consequences. Consequences that affect us all in […]
What’s an Environmental Profit & Loss Account? And How Do Companies Use It?
Environmental Profit & Loss Accounting- in short EP&L, is a great method for measuring and quantifying the environmental impact of an organization’s activities. Sports brand Puma was the first company to create and publish an EP&L report on its environmental footprint back in 2011. Since then, the recognition and need for environmental transparency and accountability […]
How Activity-Based Footprinting Solves the Complexity of LCA’s
‘An LCA is a complex analysis’ Life Cycle Assessments* (LCA) are, by nature, extensive pieces of research. Only trained experts can create reliable assessments that go to the bottom of complex processes and value chains. At least, that’s the common perception. *An LCA is a scientific analysis of the impact one object or process has […]
How the Dutch Public Lighting Sector (OVL) goes circular with the ECI
There is a rapidly growing need to make sustainability and circularity transparent and measurable. As a result, circularity has become an important theme on the agenda of the Government of The Netherlands. The ambition? To achieve a completely circular economy in the Netherlands by 2050. But how do you get there? Futureproof construction: LCA and […]
5 Ways To Use LCA To Make Your Business More Sustainable
Turning environmental data into sustainable action. You can’t make sustainable improvements in your business, without knowing where you stand in the first place. A *Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tells you exactly that. With an LCA, you measure the environmental footprint of a product or your complete product portfolio. The results include impact types such as; […]
5 Steps to Get Suppliers On Board With Sustainability
It has become clear that the role of supply chains on companies’ environmental impact is often very high. Up to a point, where 90% of your total environmental footprint can occur in said supply chains. This impact percentage from your supply chain might seem impressive – but it also opens up many opportunities for substantial […]
