Our Four Tenets of Sustainability
Fiscal Sustainability: Ensuring that your business thrives financially
You have to survive as a business, after all, and profits are what separate businesses from hobbies. Managing your resources in such a way that you are profitable means working well with what you have, managing your capital, assessing your resources and opportunities accurately, and eliminating waste. Adopt natural systems of inputs and outputs, seek profits in mutually-beneficial exchanges, and achieve wealth through creative cultivation of resources.
Personnel Sustainability: Supporting those who co-labor with you
People who feel empowered, who believe in the business, who enjoy coming to work, and who still have time and energy to pursue their own dreams will make the greatest contributions to the business, its products, the workplace, and their co-workers. A living wage is fundamental, and a culture of health, safety, comfort, and enthusiasm is essential for long-term success. Whether times are bad or good.
Community Sustainability: Building up the neighborhood around you
Being an active, visible part of your own neighborhood promotes the growth of a healthy community upward from its very roots. Help build the kind of community you want for your business and your home. Celebrate together when great things happen, and support each other when disaster strikes. You’ll make life-long customers, partners, and friends.
Environmental Sustainability: Promoting a clean, healthy, pollution-free environment
The progression is natural: healthy people, healthy communities, a healthy environment. At the core is your healthy business. Your efforts to conserve resources and co-operate with nature in your business operations, in your product development and distribution, and in the legacy your business and products leave for future generations all contribute to a global ecosystem maintained in balance to sustain innovation and growth for decades and even centuries to come.
You have to survive as a business, after all, and profits are what separate businesses from hobbies. Managing your resources in such a way that you are profitable means working well with what you have, managing your capital, assessing your resources and opportunities accurately, and eliminating waste. Adopt natural systems of inputs and outputs, seek profits in mutually-beneficial exchanges, and achieve wealth through creative cultivation of resources.
Personnel Sustainability: Supporting those who co-labor with you
People who feel empowered, who believe in the business, who enjoy coming to work, and who still have time and energy to pursue their own dreams will make the greatest contributions to the business, its products, the workplace, and their co-workers. A living wage is fundamental, and a culture of health, safety, comfort, and enthusiasm is essential for long-term success. Whether times are bad or good.
Community Sustainability: Building up the neighborhood around you
Being an active, visible part of your own neighborhood promotes the growth of a healthy community upward from its very roots. Help build the kind of community you want for your business and your home. Celebrate together when great things happen, and support each other when disaster strikes. You’ll make life-long customers, partners, and friends.
Environmental Sustainability: Promoting a clean, healthy, pollution-free environment
The progression is natural: healthy people, healthy communities, a healthy environment. At the core is your healthy business. Your efforts to conserve resources and co-operate with nature in your business operations, in your product development and distribution, and in the legacy your business and products leave for future generations all contribute to a global ecosystem maintained in balance to sustain innovation and growth for decades and even centuries to come.