GREEN: It’s the Right Thing to Do
1) Consumers and Community
Your customers and clients, and their constituents, are either your strongest ally, or your worst enemy. Increasingly more buying decisions are incorporating the triple bottom line. Mandates and policies, which up until recently were based on economic factors, are now being made in much broader terms. Departmental RFPs are including questions never asked in the past.
Vic Nathan Barkin has more than 35 years of experience in the printing, paper and wood products industries and currently owns a consulting practice specializing in business development, workflow, and technology implementation, focusing on “Green Procurement and Production” practices. Vic is a QMS Lead Auditor certified to ISO 9001:2008 standards, is a consultant for the Rainforest Alliance as an FSC Chain of Custody and Controlled Wood senior auditor, is an FSC, SFI and PEFC lead auditor for PricewaterhouseCoopers and SGS North America, and has engaged in more than 700 site assessments and audits.