Sustainability and Greening:
Defining some terms:
Jed and Nancy will talk back-and-forth about concepts such as sustainability, carbon footprint, triple bottom line, and other bits of energy jargon, acronyms (alphabet soup).

Why businesses need to start paying attention and taking action now, rather than waiting until later.

Being proactive, yet avoiding greenwashing

Nancy has some interesting statistics about shareholder resolutions at investor owned corporations regarding sustainability that could be real eye-openers for co-ops preparing for their annual meetings.

How-to tips:
Nancy will mention the 4 steps in CBJ article sidebar:
    1---starting point
    2---get everyone involved
    3---plan carefully
    4---measure and report regularly

Nancy will also talk about practical value of:
    EMP, energy management program
    ESPC, energy savings performance contract
    And ESCOs, energy service companies

Jed will talk about his experiences setting up programs for dairies, and how that can apply to other business entities.