{"id":8,"date":"2009-05-04T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/blog\/sustainability-initiatives\/"},"modified":"2009-05-04T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T16:03:00","slug":"sustainability-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ernst and Young in their report, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Green for go: Supply chain sustainability,<\/span> lists some of the major initiatives one finds under the sustainability banner, noting &#8220;where there is carbon, there are costs&#8221; and the low percentage of companies that have undertaken related initiatives &#8212; only  35% having embarked on carbon foot printing of any description.<\/p>\n<p>These sustainability initiatives are in order of percent of organizations who have implemented an initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Labor Standard Improvements<br \/>Waste\/Packaging Minimization<br \/>Phasing out of hazardous materials<br \/>Community Projects<br \/>Estate\/Plant energy efficiency improvements<br \/>Logistics Optimization<br \/>Supplier Qualification<br \/>Sustainability Program<br \/>Chain of Custody\/product traceability<br \/>Renewable Energy<br \/>Carbon footprinting<br \/>Carbon Offsetting<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Visit earthsayers.tv and become a sustainability advocate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernst and Young in their report, Green for go: Supply chain sustainability, lists some of the major initiatives one finds under the sustainability banner, noting &#8220;where there is carbon, there are costs&#8221; and the low percentage of companies that have undertaken related initiatives &#8212; only 35% having embarked on carbon foot printing of any description. [&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":[6,8,7,666],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carbon-footprinint","tag-carbon-offsetting","tag-suppy-chain","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}