Sustainable Business Support Link

About this site

Business sustainability is becoming increasingly important for managers in the modern economy. Put simply, business sustainability can be described as a holistic continuous improvement process that includes the sound management of people and the environment. Business sustainability makes good business sense because the benefits feed directly back into the bottom line. But where do we start as small-medium sized businesses?

This website has been developed to help you, in small business, make sense of sustainability including:

• What it means for you and your business
• How you can benefit from becoming more sustainable - now, and into the future
• How you can measure and track your performance to help you plan your sustainable business program - using the Sustainable Business Tracker Tool.

This free and interactive tool allows you to quickly and easily monitor and manage your sustainability performance. It captures information and trends that is not captured through conventional reporting. You can use the tool to:

• Produce your own customised Triple Bottom Line report (economic, social, environmental report)
• Identify issues and trends in your business - an essential starting point to help you develop a strategic approach to a sustainable business
• Identify resources including free programs, information and support to help you with your 'sustainable business' challenges
• Develop a better understanding of how sustainability relates to your business and how pursuing sustainable growth strategies can benefit your business.

The Sustainable Business Tracker Tool has been designed to address the sustainability reporting needs of small/medium sized business....

• Free and confidential
• User friendly, interactive and quick to use
• Balances usefulness with simplicity
• Provides useful reports and practical advice on how to improve business sustainability
• Can track the sustainability performance of a business over time

How does it work?

1. Register. This allows you to create and access your own password protected account so that you can use the tool securely both now, and into the future to track your performance over time. (You can click here to register and account or use your existing account)

 

2. Enter your data. Answer a series of questions about your Economic, Environmental and Social activities. It’s easy – you don’t have to be an expert.

 

3. Generate your reports. You can choose either a Trend Report, which tracks your performance from one quarterly period to another, or a Triple Bottom Line Report, producing results for one quarterly period.

After you produce your report, you should have a better understanding of the key issues related to your business. This will allow you to plan your sustainability actions in a coordinated and strategic way. You can also use the Information Bank which contains information on how to address certain issues in your business.

Use the tool on a quarterly basis to track your performance over time.

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