Xylem launched their 2025 Sustainability Goals in 2019 including 4 Customer Sustainability Goals related to Xylem’s innovative products and solutions. These goals are developed by considering customer needs and aimed at helping Xylem’s customers to reduce their environmental footprints with the help of Xylem’s innovative products and solutions and simultaneously increase Xylem’s handprint….Continue Reading Product Brief: Xylem Handprint in Action
A footprint is a metric used to represent an amount of environmental or social impact. An actor who directly causes an impact, such as a person who chooses to drive a vehicle to the store, bears responsibility for these impacts in footprint accounting, or footprinting. The pollution from driving the vehicle to the store becomes part of the person’s footprint….Continue Reading Research Brief: Responsibility and Credit Sharing
Handprints are changes, relative to business as usual, measured with footprint metrics. To understand their role and importance we need to start by understanding footprints. A footprint is a metric used to represent an amount of environmental or social impact. Footprint metrics usually address things we want to reduce like emissions of pollutants or consumption of resources, so “less is better.” There are separate footprint metrics to address different topics or “areas of concern.”…Continue Reading Research Brief: What are Handprints?
The Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) project is dedicated to improving the scientific basis for transformative environmental, social, and economic positive changes called handprints. Organizations and individuals can create handprints relative to their business-as-usual (BAU) through voluntary reductions in their own footprint as well as in the footprints of others. The novel SHINE handprint framework expands thus the scope, retains accountability for the outcomes, and increases widespread pursuit of net-positive goals….Continue Reading Paper: Sustainability Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise handprint methodological framework
At SHINE, an essential component of fostering sustainable growth and handprinting comes from collaborating with our partners. The SHINE Spotlight asks questions to our partners as an opportunity for them to share their missions and contributions to the world. We’d like to introduce Humanscale as our first SHINE Spotlight member: 1. As a company, who…Continue Reading Partner Spotlight: Humanscale