Far too often, when companies decide to implement sustainable, green initiatives within the organization, the supply chain is ignored. Causing 80-90 percent of an organization's carbon footprint, supply chain management is a fantastic place to start your company's sustainable changes.

2. Sustainability Explained
Sus·tain·a·bil·ity
[suh-stey-nuh–bil-i-tee] noun
1. The ability to be sustained, supported, upheld or
confirmed.
2. Environmental Science. The quality of not being
harmful to the environment or depleting natural
resources, and thereby supporting long-term
ecological balance.

3. Sustainability
By now, most everyone has heard the word,
whether it was in a business meeting, presentation
or otherwise.
What does it really mean for a corporation to
embrace sustainability--it’s not enough to have and
use recycling bins, that is only a drop in the
preverbal polluted ocean when it comes to
corporate sustainability.

4. Corporate Sustainability
Start with these two questions:
“Who are we as a company?”
“What is the expectation of our end user?”
Steven Prokesch of the Harvard Business Review
claimed "successful companies who survive over
many decades understand that they are a human
community first, and a money making machine
second."

5. Corporate Sustainability
Making a positive impact on the community and
the environment can start at work.
Setting examples and best practices at the
workplace can cause sustainable actions to carry
over from your employees/coworkers work lives to
their personal lives.

6. Supply Chain Sustainability
What is coming in and going out of our facility, and
how it’s being transported, can be as much as 80-90
percent of a company’s overall “carbon footprint.”
Despite all that is done in offices and
manufacturing plants, if the focus is not on the
Supply Chain’s carbon footprint, the largest
opportunity for change is being ignored.

7. Farmer Bros Sustainability
At Farmer Brothers, we are in the process of
building the first LEED (Lead in Energy &
Environmental Design) Certified Headquarters in
the industry.
In our offices, we will be harvesting daylight,
implementing new waste management plans, going
paperless, utilizing solar energy and water
efficiency plans.

8. What Can You Do?
Look at your supply chains and see where it is easy
to cut back with fuel efficiency, packaging,
electrical use, better vehicle maintenance, and
replacement of old and out dated equipment that is
not as energy efficient replacing it with newer
energy efficient equipment.
Changing out old lighting and replacing it with
LED lighting in a warehouse can often pay for itself
in energy savings in just a couple of years.

9. What Can You Do?
BE A TRENDSETTER IN
YOUR INDUSTRY.
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