Use the mask of money to drive an environmental initiative.

Q:
Environmentalist to Corporate Demon: “would you like to save OP Expense for more ROI and Profit Margin to hit your numbers in order to satisfy your stockholders and wall-street earnings” .

A:
Corporate Demon “why we would love that”

Q:
Environmentalist to Corporate Demon: “would you like to save the environment?”

A:
Corporate Demon: “Go F— yourself”

Q:
Environmentalist to Corporate Demon: “If I told you that we had an environmental model that can help you increase bottom line and save the environment would you be willing to implement the steps into your day to day OPs?”

A:
Corporate Demon: “of course, yet as soon as it fails we are back to polluting and violating human rights and labor laws.”

We have created a disgusting global machine that only greases itself with remorseless greed. There is only way to implement and maintain this type of environmental initiative across the board in this modern conglomerate business model. That is to convince the consumers to only buy products from companies that have a proven, quantifiable solution and action plan for being environmentally friendly. Once the customer consciously decides to buy from only true “green” companies and has conviction in doing so…well there lies the answer to our environmental collapse time-bomb.

The power always lies within the people in any situation if you get down to it. So we as citizens, humans…need to change our ways within our own lives and then force these onto the corporate regime.

We control their pocket books and ultimately the responsibility lies with us as consumers.

This environmental volcano that is building pressure and soon enough will release with an unknown outcome will not be ours to deal with sadly either…this problem we are perpetuating will ultimately directly affect our kids and theirs…

So I am in to boycott any company out there…I already swore off Wal-mart and that is pretty much one of the biggest out there

lets collect and conquer because divided we we fall

we can establish a new corporation…

The Human Corporation

To your point, using more biodegradable bags, being selective on when the liner is replaced, and recycling when we can in the workplace are all great ideas. The challenge is, how do you motivate a corporation to do adopt these initiatives? Oddly enough, when it comes to being a green business, my employer has their act together (for the most part).

Just to cite some examples, we have recycle bins throughout our break rooms for aluminum cans, plastic, and paper. Our janitors are also very selective on when they replace a trash bag liner. Most of the time, they just dump the contents of the trash can and reuse the liners unless they’re super funky. There’s also a whole slew of energy efficiency initiatives we have as well (motion sensed power to various vending machines, our AC system goes into low power mode after 7 PM, all PCs are hibernated after a certain period of inactivity, ETC).

With all this being said, I wouldn’t confuse my employer as a company who solely has the best interests of our environment in mind. I imagine the main reason why we’re on top of this is because there are 1) environmental tax incentives available to green businesses 2) investing in energy efficiency will also lower OpEx 3) being “green” is now quite a popular and effective marketing campaign. “Buy from us because we love all the cute little baby seals across the world!” (this being proclaimed while an employee of this company wails on one of the ugly baby seals in some dark recess of their R&D department).

Use a company’s greed as a driving force for change by claiming to lower their operational expenses, making use of existing tax breaks, and improving their brand recognition through green initiatives while our true intention is to diminish our impact on the environment. It’s all about the Benjamins in their eyes so talk their language to get things done.