Across sectors, there is an opportunity to bring business into a smart and creative alignment with human life and the natural world that sustains us all. People often believe the aims of business and life are fundamentally opposed; after all, the global systems built in the last two centuries have caused climate breakdown which increasingly threatens to undermine the order of life in our time, for all time.
Pioneering companies, including Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. (SR Inc) however, are demonstrating the falsehood of this narrative by profitably committing to be Net-Positive companies who give more than they take in order to help regenerate the people, communities and resources that support their success. By emphasizing respect and reverence for human life and the natural world, this regenerative approach to business promotes human well-being and a stable and healthy environment. It does this through a needed change in framing, approach and, ultimately, complex systems in order to align business with life.
Businesses can move from seeking greater efficiency in an assumed mechanistic model outside any individual or community to offering greater dignity to employees, customers, investors, suppliers and the communities that support SR Inc. By “offering dignity” rather than “seeking efficiency,” businesses can renew, regenerate, and nourish the human and ecological communities that sustain them.
Rather than just mitigating our negative impacts (such as our small carbon footprint), SR Inc invites stakeholders to move beyond any planned harm towards wholly positive impacts (such as accelerating the growth of renewable energy). We see this work as part of our “handprint” with which we want to make clear our great respect for all of our stakeholders including the natural world that sustains us all as we work to align business with life.
Our geographically distributed team has a small environmental impact, but we strive to minimize that impact even further to zero. To accomplish this, we will:
By advising world-leading enterprises on sustainability strategy, our team makes a much greater “handprint” impact than we could through our footprint alone. Through our work with Member-Clients, we aim to:
SR Inc is committed to protecting and promoting the inviolable and inalienable dignity of every person. Furthermore, SR Inc works to affirmatively identify, enfranchise, and energize the needed genius of traditionally marginalized people and communities. By celebrating the aptitude of every person for positive social meaning, as well as the benefit of the natural world that is beyond commercial value, we can evolve beyond need-based, extractive relationships with people, enterprises, communities and our natural world towards relationships based on care more than need which magnify the unique and creative contributions of every individual, enterprise, community, and our environment.
SR Inc is committed to creating an environment free from intimidation, harassment, or inappropriate behavior where all stakeholders can feel safe, supported, and included. We seek to be an example of integrity, kindness, and commitment to excellence. Our Governance Policy outlines key areas of commitment in: Corporate Structure; Code of Conduct and Ethics; Anti-Harassment and Non-Discrimination, and; Confidentuality and Data Privacy.
