Tag Archives: Strategy
Lessons from . . . Pond Scum?!
Humans are wired to understand and respond to threats like a lion chasing us down. Climate change, population growth, and other stressors happen too slowly for our minds to get around. Furthermore, doubling rates always seem extremely slow – until it’s too late: pond scum with a doubling rate of one day, would starve the life out of a pond just one day after the pond was only 1/2 covered…
Vision & Mission
We work with people in organisations to make sustainability profitable. This involves strategy work with leadership teams; tactical implementation with environment responsibles, and change management with the organisation at large. So we work with groups and individuals throughout the organisation to use a sustainability perspective to find ways to save money, make money and generate [...]
About us
Caroline Rennie Caroline Rennie has worked in the Environmental domain for 25 years with companies, government and NGOs in the US and Europe. She served as Environmental Affairs Director for Schmalbach-Lubeca PET (formerly Continental Can, and, at the time the largest manufacturer of PET preforms in the world) and then Tetra Pak UK. Prior to [...]
Is This You?
1. You’re a business leader, trying to get a handle on sustainability, and what it means for your company: You might be getting pressure from major clients: We’re greening our supply chain! …Or pressure from stakeholders: So, how are your products recycled, and where? …Or pressure from competitors: We’re launching an eco-groovy product that will [...]
Lobbying: a proven way to lose money?
by Caroline Rennie The International Energy Agency estimates that coal companies ought to be spending $2 billion a year for ten years on clean coal technologies, and Credit Suisse suggests they should be spending at least $1.5 billion. Actually, coal companies are spending a fraction of that on development, and half again as much in [...]
Why is Wal-Mart Offering Environmental Audits to Government?
by Caroline Rennie In May, the National Governors Association (NGA), announced that Wal-Mart would run energy audits of the capitol buildings of 20 U.S. states with a view to identifying opportunities to reduce energy consumption. Why would Wal-Mart do this? Because in this way Wal-Mart can build good will with legislators and the public, honourably, [...]
Retailers & Fortune’s Accountable 100
by Caroline Rennie AccountAbility, which provides Fortune Magazine with the list of top 100 companies with respect to sustainability, has recently come out with its 2007 assessment. While the list is dominated by oil and energy companies – the companies that clearly have the greatest need to position themselves well – it also includes a [...]
What ren-new is (and how you pronounce it!)
ren-new (pronounced renew) connects people, organisations and environment in a way that profits all. A strategic environmental consultancy, ren-new maximises the value that you and your organisation realise from environmental and social engagement. This means protecting your organisation from risks as well as identifying business opportunities that create value for you and your customers. We [...]