What is Sustainability?

2. What is Sustainability? • “A sustainable community uses its resources to meet current needs while ensuring that adequate resources are available for future generations.” (Source: World Commission on Environment and Development 1987) • Sustainability is about “meeting the need of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. (Source: U.N. Agenda 21) • Sustainability is becoming a corporate imperative. • Corporations are being ranked on their ability to integrate business practices that meet economic,social and environmental goals.

3. Sustainable Formula Sustainability = Green + Fiscal Responsibility OR Sustainability = (People & Planet) + (Performance, Process & Price)

4. Benefits of Sustainable Buildings

5. CE Sustainable Mission Corporate Express provides our customer with socially and environmentally responsible solutions for a cleaner and healthier work environment while being your lowest total cost solution provider. This is achieved through our manufacturing and technical expertise. Innovation, training, quality standards, and world class e-way and single source B2B national distribution model.

6. Corporate Express and Sustainability • Sustainability Policy (www.cexp.com/sustainability.html) • Our belief in demonstrating leadership, responsibility and accountability regarding sustainability • Outlines our commitment to reduce our environmental impact while balancing social equity and economic vitality • Includes goals related to: • Social Responsibility • Climate Change • Alternative Transportation • Green Buildings • Sustainable Forestry • Post Consumer Waste • Environmentally Sustainable Products • Corporate Express = Sustainable Advocate

7. Sustainable State

8. ‘Cradle to Cradle’ or Sustainable Approach

9. Green Drivers of Change-Carbon Footprint Copy Paper Toner Writing Instruments Ordering Process Deliveries Envision Eco Liners Eco Breakroom Supplies Sustainable Earth Chemicals

10. $ustainable Drivers of Change-Economic Copy Paper Duplex Recycled Toner Hewlett Packard Recycled Story Energy Efficient Equipment Cartridge King Writing Instruments Ordering Process Vendor Consolidation Internet Ordering Average Order Size Deliveries Eco Breakroom Supplies

11. State Use Partners • Cartridge King • Remanufactured Inkjet Cartridges • Remanufactured Laser Cartridges • Hewlett Packard • Ketch • Recycled Binders • Envision • Eco Degradable Liners • Totally Recycled Liners

12. How to become $ustainable Learn How to Brag! Challenge “what is green and what is sustainable?” Challenge the Perception that green products are expensive and don’t perform Have each department identify 1 new practice each month Access to affordable, credible and easy access to information Don’t develop too many standards/criteria Make it FUN!

13. Corporate Express Obligation Understand sustainability and the intent of the ‘green movement’ Define sustainability in universally accepted terms Operate within those sustainable standards Promote clarity of products and the process of sustainability Sustainable Audits

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