Trevor Payne, the London leader who first started the Sustainability Day summed it up by reminding us that every action is important, and all actions can be simple; what matters is commitment in the face of huge challenges and opportunities.
It is therefore vital to structure the field of action by identifying where to start implementing sustainability (i.e., concrete possible starting points), what to do (exemplary sustainability actions) and where these actions have the greatest impact.
Borromeo concludes: "A clever business will start their sustainability incorporation now.
Gardeners, he argues, must start considering "sustainability in water usage, plant choices, local ecology and preservation of resources".
For both consumers and corporations, the point is that starting toward sustainability may not be as big a leap as you'd think.
By furthermore considering the three dimensions of sustainability, possible starting points for sustainability actions can be identified.
Internally, his team started to see sustainability and protecting the environment as clear positives.
"Several years ago, we started thinking about sustainability in environmental terms," said Dick Celeste, the president of Colorado College.
As part of that commitment, it started issuing annual sustainability reports three years ago – all of which are candid about Mars's struggles as well as its progress, Parkin maintains.
Scott Paul, the former forest campaign director at Greenpeace, and Drew Barfoot, the Kimberly-Clark vice president of environment, energy, safety, quality and sustainability, started talking off the record and translating what each side was trying to say to each other.
