Facilitator: John Hailey, Cisco, Workplace Resources

Key challenge facing sustainability teams:

* Internal competition. Internal greening work, though it saves the company money, can't compete successfully for funding with revenue-generating units.

* Tight payment requirements for sustainability projects: two-years, but could be less than a year.


Opportunities:


* GE


Internal funds:
Examples: Intel carbon fund, Johnson & Johnson

Formallyizing, instutitutionalizig sustainability
Cisco's Eco-Board, full-time focus

CEO - level PR/Speaking opportunities:
* ICF example: Now that


Start with no or low cost

* Normal year a two-year payment is workable. (but the next hurdle is to move to three year payment)

Opportunities

Eco board -- Cisco
"Do your part" -- ICF tool for employees to make pledges and aggregate the impact.



3 - 5 Innovations


Hurdles to overcome





Rewards:
Name recognition


Net App: Employees in action

* short, very cheap videos
* Employee polls



CDP supply chain survey:

Source of additional funding

European regulations:

Cisco's VP of sales for Europe