Additional Resources
The American Sportfishing Association’s Sustainability Toolkit was created to educate members about the business case for sustainability and provide actionable steps a company can take to improve operations, cut costs, increase profits, and protect fisheries and the environment. ASA intends to bring more sustainability education on subjects like emerging trends and consumer insights, lifecycle assessment (LCA) for products, sustainable packaging solutions, circular economy, improving supply chain sustainability, and more.
As American Sportfishing Association members, we are part of a system that has a collective effect on people and the planet. By measuring and improving the environmental and social impact of your business, we can increase profits and make a positive impact for our planet, fisheries, communities and employees.
Additional Resources
Sustainability Tools:
- Sustainability SWOT: The sustainability SWOT (sSWOT) is designed to help drive action and collaboration on environmental challenges creating real business risks and opportunities.
- Free Sustainability Assessments:
- Emerger Strategies’ Basic Sustainability Assessment Tool: This tool enables an organization to assess its progress toward causing no harm to people and the environment, as well as its positive impacts on people and the environment.
- B Corp B Impact Assessment: B Impact Assessment is a digital tool that can help measure, manage, and improve positive impact performance for environment, communities, customers, suppliers, employees, and shareholders; receiving a minimum verified score of 80 points on the assessment is also the first step towards B Corp Certification.
- Future-Fit Business Benchmark: The Benchmark is a new kind of business tool, designed to help any company play its part in our transition to an environmentally restorative, socially just and economically inclusive future.
- EPA Simplified GHG Emissions Calculator: The EPA Simplified GHG Emissions Calculator is designed as a simplified calculation tool to help small business and low emitter organizations estimate and inventory their annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The calculator will determine the direct and indirect emissions from all sources at an organization when activity data are entered into the various sections of the workbook for one annual period.
Networks and Coalitions:
- Ceres: Transform the economy to build a sustainable future for people and the planet.
- AMERICA IS ALL IN is the most expansive coalition of leaders ever assembled in support of climate action in the United States. They come from thousands of U.S. cities, states, tribal nations, businesses, schools, and institutions of faith, health, and culture.
- American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN): ASBN develops and advocates solutions for policymakers, business leaders, and investors that support an equitable, regenerative, and just economy that benefits all—people and planet.
- Green America’s Green Business Network® is the first, largest, and most diverse network of socially and environmentally responsible businesses in the country. Home to both rising social and eco enterprises and the most established green businesses around.
- Cascale (formerly Sustainable Apparel Coalition): Cascale is a global, non-profit alliance of 300 leading consumer goods brands, retailers, manufacturers, sourcing agents, service providers, trade associations, NGOs, and academic institutions. Our members represent every link of the global value chain for apparel, footwear, and textiles; home furnishings; sporting and outdoor goods; bags and luggage.
- Fly Fishing Climate Alliance: An alliance of fly fishing guides, shops, lodges, brands and nonprofits committed to net-zero emissions by 2050.
Regulations:
- Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Laws by State
- Climate Policy Tracker by State
- SEC Adopts Rules to Enhance and Standardize Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors
Media and Events
- Greenbiz: GreenBiz Group is a media and events company that accelerates the just transition to a clean economy.
- Sustainable Brands: Sustainable Brands is the premier global community of brand innovators who are shaping the future of commerce worldwide.
Books:
- The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken
- Project Drawdown by Paul Hawken
- The Sustainability Advantage by Bob Willard
- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and William Braungart
- Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
- The Future of the Responible Company by Vincent Stanley & Yvon Chouinard
Podcasts:
Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Accounting:
- GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting Standard: The GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard provides requirements and guidance for companies and other organizations preparing a corporate-level GHG emissions inventory.
- GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard: The Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard allows companies to assess their entire value chain emissions impact and identify where to focus reduction activities.
- Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) Corporate Net-Zero Standard: The SBTi’s Corporate Net-Zero Standard provides the guidance and tools companies need to set science-based net-zero targets.
- EPA Center for Corporate Climate Leadership: EPA’s Center for Corporate Climate Leadership serves as a resource center for all organizations looking to expand their work in the area of greenhouse gas (GHG) measurement and management.
- Climate Solutions 101 by Project Drawdown: Filled with the latest need-to-know science and fascinating insights from global leaders in climate policy, research, investment, and beyond, this video series is a brain-shift toward a brighter climate reality.
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