The Sustainability Scorecard

Conclusion

If It’s Not Profitable, It’s Not Sustainable

To continue to accept these realities is absurdity.

To not do anything about them is obscenity.

To not profit from the unexpected solutions that sustainability offers would be humankind’s greatest missed opportunity.

—Paul Anastas

For the better part of a decade, firms have led the charge with sustainability initiatives designed to address the climate crisis. Efforts have largely centered around supply chains and sourcing, reduction of carbon emissions, recycling, and support of local communities—all spokes on the wheel that supports the well-being of the planet and its inhabitants. But can these efforts really survive if they remain separate from a focus on profitability?

One of the reasons ...