Sustainable business podcast series launched

The Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW (DECC) Sustainability Advantage program has launched a podcast series featuring global sustainable business expert, Dr Bob Willard.

Designed to help business to better understand and act on environmental issues, the eight-part interview series covers topics such as the business case for sustainability, how to generate internal support for sustainability, sustainability and small to medium enterprises, and extending sustainability to your supply chain.

The series kicks off with Episode 1, The growing relevance of sustainability to all and Episode 2, Asset management "¦ the bottom line on sustainability.

Further interviews will be released weekly via the NSW government’s ‘Our environment, it’s a living thing’ website.

Willard is an expert on the business value of corporate sustainability strategies and in the last three years he has given over 180 keynote presentations to corporations, consultants, academics, and non-government organisations.

Willard has also written two books: The Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line (New Society Publishers, 2002) and The Next Sustainability Wave: Building Boardroom Buy-in (New Society Publishers, 2005). Sustainability Advantage is a DECC initiative which currently partners with over 150 companies to build more sustainable businesses. The program offers a management diagnostic tool and a series of modules and individually tailored projects including:

• Vision, commitment and planning;
• Environmental responsibility and risk management;
• Resource efficiency;
• Supply chain management;
• Stakeholder and employee engagement;
• Climate change.

For more information, phone (02) 8837 6000.