Implementing Sustainability at Sea Change Resources

Project Scope

SeaChange would like to incorporate sustainability in their business operations.

To help SeaChange to implement sustainability you are required to:

1. Assess current sustainability practices at SeaChange through assessment of the company’s website.

• What can you learn about SeaChange values?
• Is corporate social responsibility and sustainability currently reflected in those values statements?
• What can you learn about the company’s passive or active sustainability practices?
• Does SeaChange possess the resources to implement sustainability

1. Advice SeaChange on sustainability issues. This includes:

• What is sustainability
• Triple Bottom Line approach
• How sustainability can affect operating costs and profits
• Motivations for sustainable business practices
• How sustainability can create opportunities
• Goals of sustainability
• Types of sustainability initiatives
• Steps in implementing sustainability within an organization
• Importance of calculating the company’s ecological/carbon footprint
• Challenges/barriers to implementing sustainability
• Requirements for implementing sustainability
• Legislation within the USA that governs sustainability practices in organizations within their industry
• The specific environmental concerns within the industry
• Any specific industry guidelines for implementing sustainability
• Industry benchmarks that could be used to measure sustainability within the organization
• Other companies that can be used as benchmarks to compare their sustainability practices
• SeaChange stakeholders – employees, management, contractors, clients, government, licensing authorities, etc. with whom SeaChange engages
• Importance of managing stakeholders
• Importance of communicating sustainability to stakeholders
• How sustainability can be communicated to stakeholders
• Importance of transparency

1. Prepare a questionnaire for SeaChange to do an internal assessment of their current passive and active sustainability practices and the company readiness and ability to implement sustainability within the organization so that the company can developed a sustainability plan. (The questionnaire should be placed in the appendix and discussed within the report. Explain the purpose of the questionnaire and how the information obtained from the internal assessment would assist SeaChange in implementing sustainability within the organization)
• Questions should try to capture, for example:
• Company values; measure important to SeaChange in pursuit of sustainability; energy and waste management practices, resources available that can be invested into sustainability, safety controls, carbon/ecological footprint, motivations for sustainability, awareness of natural and social environment, awareness of triple bottom line approach and why important to sustainability
2. Make recommendations SeaChange that includes:
• Why SeaChange must define what sustainability means to the company and the reasons the company wants to integrate sustainability into business operations
• Possible sustainability goals given the company’s industry, products and services, and business goals
• Sustainability initiatives that would be most suitable given the company’s operations, activities, and current passive sustainability practices etc.
• some of the most important KPI’s to track when considering sustainability.

• Carbon Footprint
• Energy Consumption
• Product Recycling Rate
• Saving Levels due to conservation and improvement efforts
• Supplier Environmental Sustainability Index
• Supply Chain Miles
• Water Footprint
• Waste Reduction Rate
• Waste Recycling Rate
• Prioritize the initiatives based on impact, lower vs. higher impact.

Providing feedback on final presentations.