{"id":26,"date":"2008-11-18T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/blog\/six-business-benefits-to-sustainability-by-john-friedman\/"},"modified":"2008-11-18T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T07:38:00","slug":"six-business-benefits-to-sustainability-by-john-friedman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Six Business Benefits to Sustainability by John Friedman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Friedman wrote an excellent article on the Six Business Benefits of Sustainability. I picked it up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justmeans.com\">JustMeans<\/a>, an online community focused on creating a values-driven economy. Here they are in summary form:<\/p>\n<p>License to Operate (Speed to Market)<\/p>\n<p>Cost Reduction or Avoidance<\/p>\n<p>Market Opportunity\/Advantage<br \/> (Impact of actions, and not intentions)<\/p>\n<p>Employee Engagement<\/p>\n<p>Access to Investment Capital<br \/>(From 1995 to 2003 assets involved in social investing have grown 40% faster than all professionally managed investment assets in the U.S.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Visit earthsayers.tv and become a sustainability advocate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Friedman wrote an excellent article on the Six Business Benefits of Sustainability. I picked it up at JustMeans, an online community focused on creating a values-driven economy. Here they are in summary form: License to Operate (Speed to Market) Cost Reduction or Avoidance Market Opportunity\/Advantage (Impact of actions, and not intentions) Employee Engagement Access [&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":[30,29,666],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-branding","tag-busines-benefits","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}