Environmental Sustainability: The Sustainability Of A Sustainable Business

Long before the word ‘business’ aroused, human started to trade anything useful and readily made by nature with one another, known as ‘the simple trade era’. Because of no need of production, people were not very much aware of the sustainability of their trading or say, business activities. However, due to the explosive growth of population and the increasing scarcity of resources, we, as human, are now forced to reconsider the way we conduct business activities. To be more precise, how to elongate the business cycle and how to achieve sustainability. This essay will take a thorough look at a particular example of business with good practices in environmental sustainability, analyse its effectiveness, and in the end, conclude how being sustainable benefits business.

There is no doubt that a sustainable business should be an enterprise that inserts minimal negative burden on the global or local environment, community, society, or economy. In addition, it should be a business that endeavour to meet the triple bottom line, referring to’ an accounting framework that incorporates three dimensions of performance: social, environmental and financial’. Sustainable businesses

This is because it is modelled on a biological system. As a result, it is complex and has a closed loop flow of resources as opposed to the simple linear flow of resources common to most other companies. This allows it to reuse waste from one process in other procedures. For example, Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) needs a supply of demineralised water to keep the mirrors clean and to run the turbines. The greenhouses effectively act as cooling towers for the CSP and remove the excess heat. The CSP mirrors make it possible for a range of plants to grow in the shade underneath, which would aid in stabilising the soil and reducing the dust so that more sunlight reaches the CSP