Can small business make a big sustainable impact?

Name: Can small business make a big sustainable impact?
Uploaded: 2023-01-11T13:33:02.836Z
Description: Big corporations often have big budgets to put towards environmental initiatives. So how can small businesses, with their smaller budgets, smaller workforces and smaller customer base hope to make a difference? Josh Jacobs, Director of Sustainability at WAP Sustainability, says there can be pros and cons for any size business, and explains how small in size doesn't have to mean small in impact.

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Josh JacobsSustainability Director at WAP Sustainability

Josh is responsible for engaging and understanding the global marketplaces' sustainable rating systems, codes, purchasing policies, and standards for WAP Sustainability. In this role he helps develop and track the environmental programs that are being utilized throughout the world. As a LEED AP+ BD&C, Josh has served on over 40 sustainably focused committees, including but not limited to ASHRAE 189.1, LEED Steering Committee, USGBC’s Pilot Credit Committee, and served on the water/IEQ work group that developed the first public draft of the IgCC. He is a recurring guest lecturer at multiple universities and has spoken on sustainable building practices and purchasing on 5 continents. He works with organizations investor relations and sustainability teams to help them understand sustainable financial reporting tools such as SASB, GRI, and TCFD. Josh served as Chairman of the US Mirror Committee for ISO 20400 Sustainable Procurement, the 2015 NAHB Material/IEQ Working Group, Chair for USGBC’s Pilot Credit Committee, and Chair of the LEED Steering Committee Chair and currently serves as Vice Chair of ASHRAE 189.1.

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Big corporations often have big budgets to put towards environmental initiatives. So how can small businesses, with their smaller budgets, smaller workforces and smaller customer base hope to make a difference? Josh Jacobs, Director of Sustainability at WAP Sustainability, says there can be pros and cons for any size business, and explains how small in size doesn't have to mean small in impact.

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What areas should businesses should focus on to be more sustainable?

Change takes real commitment and this is the most important first step. Once you have commitment, data is essential to understand where you are starting from.

What are the main differences between small and large companies hoping to make an impact?

Jacobs explains how company size is a good indicator of how much people time a business will be able to commit. But being small can also mean a business can act quicker.

Do small companies have small impacts?

Find out the importance of small companies in the market and how their innovative projects can be more powerful than large companies.

Where should businesses start?

Jacobs addresses the importance of building networks to help the world be a better place.

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