Green Purchasing
Getting the environment into busineSs

Green Purchasing consulting, project management and training services help you solve the purchasing and supply issues that will affect everyone over the coming years.

Many business leaders are aware that the economy and the planet's ecology are reaching a limit, a threshold beyond which business must change.  Even so, they may not be aware that our culture holds deeply ingrained contradictions that create blindness to new opportunities the crisis brings. 

These types of contradictions explain why we persist with ineffective policies, our either / or attitude towards the economy and the ecology, our dissociation from nature and our inability to address extreme conditions such as climate change.  Change is possible, but business cannot be sustainable until its leaders think sustainably. 

At Green Purchasing we integrate whole-of-business purchasing and supply strategies that lift economic and ecological performance.  We strengthen motivation for fundamental change and implement systems to better manage risks and liabilities that lie at the heart of every purchasing decision; these include:

• climate change, carbon tax, pollution, toxicity and waste
• high risk sourcing and resource dependence
• high risk process and product specifications
• resource depletion and increasing cost

We draw on comprehensive purchasing and supply expertise specifically in manufacturing, corporate and IT to develop channel guidelines that enable you and your supply partners to respond, innovate, and adapt.

In summary, our services help you to set workable goals to:  

• develop an eco-culture mindset within the business,
• implement economic, ecological and ethical eco-efficiencies,
• create diversity through eco-effective process and product specifications.

At Green Purchasing, we like working with cultural entrepreneurs.  These open minded individuals are not always motivated by environmentalism, altruism or any other 'ism'.  However, they do like to experiment with new ideas; they take responsibility for their initiatives and reflect consciously on the consequences of their actions. 

For cultural entrepreneurs, the business-as-usual paradigm is obsolete.

To find out more, please contact Maria Straub on:

Email: maria@greenpurchasing.com.au    Mobile: +61 (0)416 172 550    Skype: green_purchasing