Xerox Sustainability Calculator
April 27, 2008 by LAUREN KERWAWYCZ , John Morelli , and | Filed under: RESEARCH CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER QUALIFICATIONS AND CREDENTIALING,What Should Be Measured and Why? [1,3]
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I thought the Xerox Sustinability Calculator fit well with this topic, not only because Xerox is my employer, but also because Xerox recently launched a tool to help companies put hard numbers to their behavoirs of energy use, waste, and green house emissions. This helps answer what to manage in the document mangement industry. This tool allows organizations the ability to see first hand how they can directly impact their effect on the environment. This sustainability caluclator is a new assessment tool that enables customers to use fact based measurement. Xerox and RIT are partnering to target education in research in sustainability.
Xerox does have a pretty impressive record with environmental management and safety. I think that this is a good example of a strong corporate social responsibility bearing fruit throughout the work place. Xerox appears to have given direction to its employees to reduce, reuse and recycle and empowered them to find ways to make this happen. It is designed into their business operations and products. The calculator can provide a tool to other companies to find economic value in sustainability.
I agree with the previous post. Not only will this calculator provide a tool to other companies who ar trying to find economic value in sustainability, but it allows for them to recongnize the effort the are making in this realm. On another note, I think that it is great that Xerox would put a calculator out. Not only does it show how environmentally friendly Xerox is, but is allows them to use their brand for god. It shows other corporations, large and small, that if a company of the size of Xerox finds sustainability essential to today’s business, it is capable for them to integrate, too.