{"id":17,"date":"2009-02-10T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/blog\/more-talk-than-walk\/"},"modified":"2009-02-10T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T09:33:00","slug":"more-talk-than-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"More Talk Than Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_1yi19FVf0u0\/SZG8BSXsdjI\/AAAAAAAAAP8\/SrUGJtw6jE8\/s1600-h\/Picture+3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 168px; height: 121px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_1yi19FVf0u0\/SZG8BSXsdjI\/AAAAAAAAAP8\/SrUGJtw6jE8\/s200\/Picture+3.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301224966688896562\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>From the Think Ecological report, &#8220;IT Sustainability Imperatives in Internet and eCommerce Business,&#8221; Jan 2009, some key findings:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Yet they\u2019re mostly talk and little walk:<\/span> conducting senior level discussion (37 percent),<br \/>publishing CSR guidelines (32 percent), and doing nothing (31 percent) topped the<br \/>list of what executives are doing to push the ecological mantra.<\/p>\n<p>Top environmental sustainability challenges included low of awareness of business<br \/>bene?ts (53 percent), fears of compromised productivity (52 percent) and perceived<br \/>costs to build in ef?ciencies (50 percent).<\/p>\n<p>There is no consistent owner, if any, of a corporate sustainability agenda in the<br \/>organization. More than 43 percent don\u2019t have one or don\u2019t know if they do.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 60 percent want more material and events to help them improve<br \/>Eco-Logical thinking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is opportunity here for building awareness, education, and consulting with executives on the benefits of sustainability as a business strategy. And the CMO should be the one leading the conversation and resulting action plans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bottom line at Pitney Bowes reflects tangible benefits&#8230;Sustainability furnishes a starting point <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">for connecting with existing and potential customers<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">-Michael Monahan, CFO, Pitney Bowes.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/idisk.mac.com\/ruthannbarrett-Public?view=web\">Download<\/a> a copy of the report &#8220;IT Sustainability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Visit earthsayers.tv and become a sustainability advocate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Think Ecological report, &#8220;IT Sustainability Imperatives in Internet and eCommerce Business,&#8221; Jan 2009, some key findings: &#8220;Yet they\u2019re mostly talk and little walk: conducting senior level discussion (37 percent),publishing CSR guidelines (32 percent), and doing nothing (31 percent) topped thelist of what executives are doing to push the ecological mantra. Top environmental sustainability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sustainability-information-technology-survey-executives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}