Resourceful Collaboration: sustaining wealth in a competitive world
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Resourceful Collaboration: sustaining wealth in a competitive world 1. The Challenge 2. Practical Actions 3. London Community Resource Network 4. Advantage Jersey
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Resourceful Collaboration: sustaining wealth in a competitive world. 1. The Challenge 2. Practical Actions 3. London Community Resource Network 4. Advantage Jersey. 1. The Challenge. One planet: 7 billion people. We need: More energy ... but less CO2 More food...from less land - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Resourceful Collaboration: sustaining wealth in a competitive world
1. The Challenge
2. Practical Actions
3. London Community Resource Network
4. Advantage Jersey
1. The Challenge
One planet: 7 billion people
We need: More energy ... but less CO2 More food...from less land A lot more accessible water
The fallout from these challenges will be revolutionary and firms that don’t adapt will fail.
Co-op Asset Management Survey of FTSE 350 companies found 56% will suffer and only 11% will gain, with the final 1/3rd balanced between success and failure.
Sustainable Business Adapts!
Impacts of Industrialised Individualism
•Resource extraction destroys habitats, species and communities
•Supply chains and disposal consume finite energy
•Over consumption fuels unsustainable inequality and makes us unhappy
•The more we consume the less we produce – offshore production disempowers our workforce and deceives our self-assessment
We’ve built our economy on industrialised personal consumption. Economic Growth is defined by consumption, more so in a service economyWe need more ways of valuing lessRegulate our demand – do more, better, differently with less!
One tonne of scrap from discarded PCs contains more gold than can be produced by 16 tonnes of ore
Public mood shifting against throwaway society
We’re running out of space, destroying nature and throwing money away
Muck and Brass
Waste
Plastics
Fibres
Metals
From Waste to Product …
Credit: Peter Jones OBE
Going Nega!NegaWatt concept coined 1989 by Amory Lovins – now underpins a burgeoning Energy Efficiency industry
Unit of power not used because of energy conservation
16% of the energy consumed in the US is used to produce food - yet at least 25% of food is wasted = equivalent of about 2150 trillion kilojoules lost each year.
Negastuff – the things we don’t need: making the link between the phone or table reused and the forest still standing.
Solar Tree by Ross Lovegrove
Systems, Processes, Products, Behaviours
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1. Is the problem getting worse? 2. Do our customers still care? 3. Are our competitors responding? 4. Is what we are doing making a difference? 5. Are we making money from this?
Business Questions
People Challengethey are ‘Google-ised’ – crave experience – have personal brands
In 2009 the 69 signatories who reported on their green spend identified the following financial savings:· Reduction of the light and heat spend by 30%· Reduction of 43% of spent by switching to green stationery suppliers· Reduction of 33.45% in the cost of cleaning/disposal products by changing to green alternatives· Savings of £3000 by reducing 90% of hazardous chemicals in cleaning procedures
Engagement is key
• Recycling started in the community• Unique ability to influence• Effective involvement of hard to reach people• Community recyclers have driven innovation• Lead reuse services• Medium for community and skills development• ‘waste’ - the lingua franca of the environmental movement
PLAN A: M&S and the 130 million Coathangers
•Cost savings of around £50m for M&S; •Cut CO2 emissions by 40,000t;•Recycled 2 million used garments via Oxfam;•Reduced 10,000 tonnes of packaging; •Diverted 20,000 tonnes of waste from landfill;•Saved 387 million food carrier bags;•Used 1,500 tonnes of recycled polyester (equivalent to 37 million bottles);•Saved 100 million litres of water;•£15m for charities.
In 2009-10, PLAN A
GAP: Environment Champions
• UNEP certification• Engaging teams of employees• Measuring environmental impact
eg. energy, waste, water etc. • Creative communication campaign• Measure and celebrate savings• Final Report with results and advice
to motivate further progress
GAP Environment Champions Guernsey Electricity achieved:
• 75% waste to landfill reduction• avoided approx 1.5 tonnes of virgin paper use, saving 25 trees and 48,000L of water • over 10% savings on electricity usage which represents savings of £8000 pa• Received Green Apple Award
Collaborate to improve
• 220 social enterprises, community and voluntary organisations• £21m collective turnover• 650 employees 75 vehicles• 500,000 beneficiaries• 2625 volunteers• 10000 tonnes of bulky reuse• 800 tonnes of organic waste• 50000 tonnes of carbon saved
LCRN - The Network
LCRN – the companyOur vision is of London as a city where resources are managed sustainably to maximise community and environmental benefit.
- support and promote community management of resources that can be used, re-used, recycled and recovered in the social economy to protect the environment and reduce poverty.
-deliver a range of services to achieve charitable objects
-voted Britain’s most innovative charity 2008
More than waste!AwarenessEngagementEmpowermentMobilisationTraining and SkillsVocational PlacementEmploymentEnterprise Service DeliveryEconomic Development
Environmental, social and economic benefits: the triple bottom line
Sustainable resource management
Reduce Reuse RecycleCampaigning organisations
Transition TownsTextile reuse
Go Real - Nappies
Community RepaintCommunity composting
Wood reuse & recycling
Bag for life schemes
Furniture reuseAppliance reuse - WEEE
IT reuse
Kerbside / Office servicesPaper recycling
Repair
RemanufactureKnowledge services
Community A.D.Community CHP
Building Materials reuse
Repairs & Training
Latest Buzz: ENERGY: Anaerobic Digestion; Combined Heat and Power
Public Service Delivery• Reuse, Home and
community composting• Finding niches beyond
mainstream services• Linking waste to social &
regeneration outcomes• Innovative partnerships• Education and
engagement• Green jobs and skills• Practical social enterprise
Some Community SuccessesGreenworks commercial office furniture to community groups – man with van now £2M social businessEast London Community Recycling Project pioneered estate collection and composting of food waste; changed the law!Nappy Ever After ecopowered real nappy collection, laundry and distributionFurnish furniture reuse and repair helping long term unemployed back to work
Some Community SuccessesThe Vine Project re-use programme with over 100 volunteers targeting pockets of deep deprivation in SuttonTaru carnival focused arts from waste educational programme in three boroughsForest Recycling Project paint, paper, computers, PEOPLE – Give and Take events
TRAID transformed textile recycling and profile of charity clothes
London Reuse NetworkAn integrated network of reuse and repair
facilities in a coordinated system working together to deliver public and commercial reuse services that maximise social and environmental benefit
Managed through a dedicated operating company, London Reuse Limited, working with clusters of Delivery Partners comprising local and regional reuse organisations.
Vision of London as a city…
• where reuse is easy, popular and normal… ubiquitous!
• that maximises the community, economic and environmental benefits of reuse;
• with unrivalled reuse infrastructure that becomes the international model for reuse management
Multiple Benefits• significant (awkward) waste diverted – 2%• reuse and waste reduction maximised• anticipates Waste Framework Directive• easily implemented alongside current
arrangements• backbone of new repair economy creating
jobs, training and enterprise opportunities• Helps with carbon, social enterprise,
volunteering, social deprivation….
Principles of the reuse framework• Resource efficient – transport, storage etc.• Maximises economic and social value• Distribution and collection focussed• Integrated with marketing initiatives• Open architecture collaborative network • Shared ownership, accountable leadership• Municipal, commercial and public sectors
Integrated reuse infrastructure• Physical Sites:
– Reuse Depots– Resource Hubs– Local Outlets
• Coordination systems• Market tools – e.g. web and campaign• Human Resource – Ops Mgt, trainers,
operatives
Current LCRN PrioritiesLondon Reuse Framework: Integrated reuse service delivery across London
Urban Organics Network: Community based organics collection and processing
Community Carbon Credit: Carbon offset and trading mechanism for social and environmental investment
Capacity building: Improving quality and performance of the network
Enterprise development: mattress recycling, green events…
4. Advantage Jersey
Islander resilience and cooperation
Proven self sufficiency
Strong networks and leaders
Lots to improve on!
Supportive State and Big Business
Durrell!
Washington State University lifecycle study 2010: Jersey cows ate less food, drank 32% less water, produced less manure and needed 11% less land than Holsteins – 19% lower carbon footprint overall
Even your cows get it!
