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Everdene Consulting specializes in sustainable supply chain management and sustainable purchasing. We believe that the business case for sustainability has never been stronger. Showing leadership in the environmental and social dimensions of your supply chain will stimulate innovation, attract top talent, and boost your brand value. Are you concerned about your global supply chain? We can help you reduce risks and ensure that fair labour practices, diversity and environmental stewardship are promoted in each link of your chain.

How We Work. We take an inclusive approach that considers your relationships and human resources as well as price, profitability and pressures on

ecological systems and communities. Our goal is to help you identify ways that you can lead in your sector by taking priority actions in partnership with your most strategic suppliers. Specifically, we assist you to:

Survey, assess and engage suppliers
Develop policies and codes of conduct
Verify supplier performance and enforce requirements
Design more sustainable products, services and practices
Communicate programs and train management and staff

We favor simplicity and structure, ensuring your implementation process is smooth and stakeholders satisfied. Our services include:

Program Design and Evaluation
We help you benchmark your industry and develop a practical business case for new sustainable supply chain activities customized to your key concerns and priorities. We then work closely with you to build the tools to run, evaluate and administer the program. In our experience, building unity on the core values and benefits of a new supply chain initiative both within the organization and among its suppliers is a critical success factor.

Adult Education and Facilitation
We provide dynamic training to organizations in both classroom and field learning environments. We favor an accessible, plain language approach that emphasizes learner participation and dialogue. We have created curricula for sustainability purchasing, business case development and total cost of ownership assessment and can meet your curriculum development needs.

Technical Writing
We provide technical writing services to craft reliable and persuasive professional documents. From how-to manuals to executive presentations, websites to brochures, curriculum modules to donor reports, we can help you present information that is clear, compelling and attractive.

Project Management
We can help you organize and stage the implementation of your program, policy or new initiative. We help you create an implementation framework that is strategic, realistic, measurable and achievable within a set timeframe. By establishing milestones, individual work plans, reporting mechanisms and an effective communications platform, you can be confident that implementation will be on time and on budget.

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Greenpeace urges Facebook to dump coal power

Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo says Facebook faces risks to its reputation and its bottom line. Photo credit: Greenpeace/Kristian Buus.

A data center in Prineville, Ore., is at the heart of a campaign waged by Greenpeace u rging Facebook to lessen its environmental impacts .
The environmental group, along with about 500,000 Facebook users, is pressing Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook to switch to 100 percent renewable power to run its data centers. The Prineville facility—slated to be operational in 2011—would be powered by Portland-based utility PacificCorp, which Greenpeace says is powered disproportionately by coal.
In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dated Sept. 1, Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo said Facebook has “an essential role to play in helping to drive the deployment of renewable energy sources,” and that ignoring the company’s environmental impacts poses a risk to “its reputation and financial health.”
The organization says Facebook should commit to phasing out using coal-fired electricity to run its data centers; advocate for government policies that support renewable energy; and disclose its greenhouse gas emissions. Plus, Facebook should share its environmental policy on its website, Naidoo wrote.
Facebook broke ground on the Prineville facility—its first company-built data center—in January. In August, it announced it was doubling the size of the project to more than 300,000 square feet to accommodate the rapid growth of its membership, which now numbers more than 500 million people worldwide. The company has highlighted the energy efficiency of the facility’s design, which includes an evaporative cooling system, and says it selected the Oregon site in part because the dry, temperate climate would contribute to the center’s efficiency.
Facebook isn’t the only target of Greenpeace’s IT energy reduction efforts. In 2009, the organzation launched the Cool IT Challenge, to push tech companies to reduce their environmental impacts.
By the Numbers

Paul Hawken

Earlier this year, at the Sustainable Industries Economic Forum, Paul Hawken challenged us to take a look at the use of the gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of the vitality of the world economy. After looking at some alternatives to the GDP, we drew the following comparison of two countries at different ends of the spectrum.