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Sustainability Becoming A Priority For Montana Businesses
Montana businesses are discovering that engaging in sustainable business practices increases worker productivity, reduces costs, preserves the environment, offers opportunities and provides competitive advantages, according to the latest issue of the Montana Business Quarterly.
Sustainability is becoming a top priority for many of the state’s business managers and owners who have developed green business strategies, implemented green business programs and hired sustainability coordinators to oversee them, authors Lisa Swallow and Jerry Furniss wrote in their article titled "Green Business: Reducing Carbon Footprint Cuts Costs and Provides Opportunities."
From small operations to high-tech startups and major corporations, Montana’s business sector is using recycled and renewable materials, making investments in energy efficiency improvements, developing innovative technologies to solve environmental problems and attempting to reduce its carbon footprint, the article says.
"The impact that businesses have on the environment and society is becoming more important to customers, employees and investors," wrote Swallow and Furniss. "Customers and shareholders are shunning companies that do not include reports about their progress toward sustainability, or good corporate citizenship, or that fail to live up to consumer or shareholder expectations."
The article includes profiles of Montana businesses that are successfully engaging in green practices, including Rivertop Renewables, the Missoula Federal Credit Union, the East End Colony Salmon Farm, the Kettlehouse Brewing Co. and St. Patrick Hospital.
Other articles in the summer issue of the Montana Business Quarterly include a look into the rise of organic farming in Montana, an update on the state’s struggling housing markets and a report on the growth earlier in the decade of vacation homes around the state’s lakes and ski resorts.
The Montana Business Quarterly is published by Bureau of Business and Economic Research at The University of Montana and is partially supported by the Missoula Federal Credit Union. Annual subscriptions are available for $35. For more information or to subscribe, go to http://www.bber.umt.edu or call 406-243-5113.
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