Publications and Events
Below is a selection of white papers and other publications by SymbioSus,™ plus other resources regarding a variety of key topics relevant to businesses seeking to profitably increase their sustainability. If you would like to discuss any of these topics further, or if any of these topics spark an idea about how SymbioSus might be able to help you profitability improve your sustainability position, contact us at via email or by calling 774-285-6823.
Also included below are upcoming events that SymbioSus is either hosting or participating in, that can be a great and efficient way for you to gain some quick, cost-effective increased knowledge about the key topics in business sustainability that you need to know to compete in today’s business environment. The key details of each event are shown below. If you are interested in registering for events that require it, please use the relevant links below.
Be sure to check back often for the latest information, as we will be adding resources and events regularly.
UPCOMING WEBINAR
Webinar Title: Sustainability for the Medical Device Manufacturer: Vital Source of Innovation, Risk Reduction, and Value Creation
Date and Time: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 12:00 to 1:00 pm, EST
To Register: Click here
Description: Businesses across many industries are increasingly recognizing the need to reduce their environmental impact, maximize resource efficiency, and become more sustainable – financially, socially, and environmentally. Drivers include increasing financial pressure, business competition, resource depletion and price volatility, climate damage, and environmental degradation, as well as increasing pressure from stakeholders including customers, employees, competitors, regulators, NGO’s, and communities.
Medical device companies have specific challenges, opportunities, and attributes that make sustainability a natural fit and vital function to enhance innovation, value creation and financial performance, and to reduce risk, waste, and cost, if done well. A lack of sustainability focus or weak execution of a sustainability strategy, however, can expose these companies to increased risks and costs, and a loss of competitive advantage.
This webinar will help medical device company leaders and professionals better understand the critical connections and implications of sustainability for their industry, as well as the right steps to take to maximize your success with this new vital business function for 21st century companies.
Specifically, this webinar will give participants a deeper understanding of:
- Industry-specific reasons why increased sustainability is a mission-critical function and natural fit for medical device companies.
- Industry-specific and real-world examples of how increased sustainability can reduce risk, waste, and cost, and increase resource efficiency, profitability, resilience, innovation, productivity, customer and employee loyalty, brand favorability, and competitive advantage for medical device companies.
- Overall recommendations for how to approach sustainability and integrate it within your organization so that it enhances, rather than detracts from, your core mission and business activities.
Whether your company is new to sustainability or somewhere along the sustainability pathway, this webinar will help you better understand and take advantage of all of the benefits of incorporating a well-considered approach to increased sustainability in a medical device company.
There is no charge to participate in this webinar - simply click here to register.
FREE ARCHIVED RESOURCES
Video Interview: Click here to view a video interview with Ken Young, owner of Young's Restaurant of Durham, NH, about the process and results of a recent energy efficiency upgrade at the restaurant. SymbioSus is helping Young's to publicly communicate their many energy efficiency and other sustainability actions and results.
White paper: "Care and Feeding of Your Green Team"
To download this free white paper, click here (69 KB PDF)
Radio Interview: Click here to listen to world-renowned sustainability thought-leader John Ehrenfeld share his thought-provoking ideas on the definition of sustainability, designing products and processes to truly achieve sustainability rather than just reduce unsustainability - and why we must do both, and the importance of focusing more on 'being' than on 'having,' in order to achieve true sustainability, in an interview with SymbioSus President Bryan Sheehan for The Long View radio program.
Radio interview: Click here to listen to Dan Greenwood of Massachusetts-based SolarFlair discuss the state of the solar energy industry and recent trends, as well as key considerations for businesses or individuals contemplating solar energy as an option, in an interview with SymbioSus President Bryan Sheehan for The Long View sustainability radio program.
Radio Interview: SymbioSus President Bryan Sheehan interviews Karen Masterson, a leader in the local food economy in New England for the sustainability radio program The Long View. Karen shares her perspectives on the benefits and challenges of a local and more sustainable food economy, and the state of the local food economy in general. She will also talk about the rewards and challenges of building a more sustainable, locally-focused business. To listen to the interview, click here.
Published Article - SymbioSus President Bryan Sheehan was recently quoted in Mass High Tech
Click here to read a recent article in Mass High Tech in which SymbioSus President Bryan Sheehan shares some key best practices for initiating and integrating a sustainability program within a company.
Radio Interview: World-renowned sustainability author, educator, and activist Bill McKibben, speaks with SymbioSus President Bryan Sheehan on the sustainability radio program, The Long View. Bill shares his thoughts on the urgent need for increased sustainability and thriving local economies, and gives updates on the latest climate campaigns of his organization, 350.org. To listen to the interview, click here.
Published Article - SymbioSus and President Bryan Sheehan featured and quoted in Boston Business Journal
Click here to read a recent Boston Business Journal article in which SymbioSus President Bryan Sheehan discusses the trend of mid-sized and smaller businesses increasingly being asked by their customers to provide information on their sustainability plans, goals, actions, and results.
Webinar: "Sustainability is the New Quality: Critical Skill Set and Business Function for 21st-Century Success"
Webinar Replay (slides and audio): Click here
Webinar Slides (slides only, no audio): Click here (833KB PDF)
Published Article: SymbioSus president Bryan Sheehan published in New Hampshire Business Review
Click here to read an article by SymbioSus President Bryan Sheehan, published in the New Hampshire Business Review, about how environmental sustainability can improve near-term profitability and long-term resilience for businesses.
White Paper: "Sustainability Planning Best Practice: Customize to Optimize"
To download this free white paper, click here
Webinar: "You're Looking Green: Increased Sustainability as a Business Healthcare-Cost Reduction Strategy"
Webinar Replay (slides and audio): Click here
Webinar Slides (sldes only, without audio): Click here (870KB PDF)
Webinar: "Promoting Sustainability - Inside and Out"
As hosted by New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility (NHBSR) and presented by SymbioSus President Bryan Sheehan.
Webinar Slides (slides only, without audio): Click here (1.4 MB PDF)
For more information on the 2011 NHBSR webinar series and SymbioSus' involvement, click here and here.
White Paper: “Sustainability: The Latest Mission-Critical Business Function for the 21st Century”
To download this free white paper, click here (102 KB PDF)
Webinar: "Sustainability Planning Best Practices: Setting the Foundation for a Successful Sustainability Program"
Webinar Replay (slides and audio): Click here
Webinar Slides (slides only, without audio): Click here (661KB PDF)
Webinar: "The Criticality of Sustainability: Why the Small to Medium-Sized Business Can't Afford NOT to Increase its Sustainability Focus"
Webinar Replay (slides and audio): Click here
Webinar Slides (slides only, without audio): Click here (1MB PDF)
White Paper: “The Business Case Benefits of Increased Sustainability”
To download this free white paper, click here. (107 KB PDF)