SCORE is a sustainability assessment that can help you determine where your company’s operations and facilities are on the road to sustainability. We provide a comprehensive series of baselines from which JHK identifies new opportunities to improve or initiate sustainability efforts. The assessment achieves a variety of goals:
- Calibrates and clarifies what sustainability really means in relation to your company
- Identifies priorities and important next steps for improvement
- Provides a long-term vision of what is necessary to become ‘sustainable’
- Provides a comparison and benchmark of how your organization measures up to others within your industry pursuing sustainability
- Includes nearly 100 practices that are organized by function, making it easy to assign responsibility and track progress
- Provides a baseline to measure improvement
- Provides short, mid and long-term progress timetables
JHK is the only consultancy in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island (one of three consultants in the Northeastern United States) licensed to assess and facilitate SCORE Sustainability Assessments.
JHK assesses your energy use to develop and implement an energy efficiency plan to reduce energy usage and costs.
JHK evaluates and calculates your entire greenhouse gas footprint. We focus on the internal and external day-to-day activities that: 1) perpetuate greenhouse gas emissions, and 2) can be easily changed to achieve positive, cost saving results. Our greenhouse gas and footprint analysis establishes a baseline from which JHK will work hand-in-hand with your company to reduce greenhouse gas output and associated environmental and social impacts.
At JHK, we believe developing a company-wide understanding of sustainability, from top-level executives to employees, is critical to achieving any long-term goals. We ensure that everyone within the company fully comprehends how sustainability applies to their day-to-day roles and how they fit into the larger company vision of achieving a sustainable business. This provides transparency and a company wide commitment.
Our sustainability training and education seminars are customized to your core operational goals and sustainability strategies. We specialize in presenting complex, multi-disciplinary topics in digestible and understandable forms by showing how sustainability is tangibly applied. We provide various seminar formats from one-on-one settings to large group presentations, whichever works best to complete training and education in a timely and efficient manner.
Actively engaging and working closely with stakeholders can be a huge competitive advantage for your company. Facilitating an ongoing dialogue with your stakeholders enables you to foresee problems before they occur and appear in the public arena. It has been repeatedly shown that stakeholders, such as individuals, interest groups, organizations and community groups, have the power to be influential through their voices, causes and purchasing patterns; engaging stakeholders equals smart risk management.
JHK facilitates and implements stakeholder outreach and engagement initiatives to include stakeholders in the sustainability and business process, and undertake various assessments to develop and implement short, mid, and long-term action plans to keep the lines of communication open.
JHK analyzes the supply chain of all products used by your organization, from resource extraction to disposal, to determine environmental and social impacts, costs, inefficiencies, and cost savings opportunities.
JHK assesses all product end of life opportunities to determine the feasibility of a product-take-back program to recycle products and reuse within the production process.
Publishing data on corporate, social and environmental sustainability has become a major driver of progress towards sustainable businesses. Sustainability reporting provides the opportunity to disclose sustainability initiatives, progress, goals, and shortfalls to the public for review, scrutiny and feedback.
JHK works with your organization to develop an internal and external sustainability report that analyzes and reports on sustainability progress. To ensure validity, reports are verified through an international third party.
JHK develops and implements a marketing plan that determines how your organization can brand themselves as a sustainable company, obtain green certifications, and identify and target green markets.
JHK develops metrics by which to measure and gauge internal and external sustainability progress. Metrics are an important part of any sustainability initiative for ‘what gets measured gets managed’.