Reporting

Sustainability is not a destination a company just reaches one day, and fortunately, the conditions don’t stay the same for very long. It’s a purposeful organizing principle that connects our human effort respectfully to the earth, it’s inhabitants and the natural laws that surround us.

Transparency is a keystone in sustainability

Over the last 10-15 years, many companies finally have come to understand the importance of evaluating resource inputs and operational choices and why to conduct product life cycle analyses. Sustainability saves money, resources, and lives. In order to achieve a state of sustainability however, you must be able to know your exact performance today and how you will measure your progress tomorrow.

Accountability is monitored mainly in two ways:
internally and externally

1. Internally, through an operations protocol called a Sustainability Management System (SMS). BolderPath^TM uses proprietary software and logistics in conjunction with stakeholder (supplier, vendor) and published information (EPA research, etc.) to assess and improve every aspect of our operational impact on people, planet and profit. Within the SMS is our Environmental Management System (EMS) that specifically measures what people usually refer to as being eco-friendly; our consumption of water, energy and fuel to provide our services and quality products, to the noxious emissions created from all activity including our employee commuting to and from work.

2. Externally, companies have the option to submit their Corporate Sustainability Reports (CSR’s) and financial statements to be audited for accuracy and adherence to the several accepted methodologies for reporting corporate sustainability. The auditing agency should be an accredited service organization such as the U.S.’s CERES or the international Global Reporting Initiative. Medium and large companies around the world report to multiple agencies and include high levels of transparency at least in certain categories. These levels are often too difficult for small and most medium sized companies to achieve; sometimes nearly impossible. A company can self-declare their reporting score, have the agency audit their submission, or hire an engineering / consultancy firm with a CPA to do the same.

BolderPath has placed a GRI A+ seal on our website to indicate that we are tracking our company according to GRI G3 Standards and are in place to score an A+ once verified by our auditing agency or GRI directly. Due to the birth of our company falling in the 4th Quarter of 2009, we have elected to conduct our first primary year of corporate reporting for 2010 from January through December. We will be submitting our first full CSR in the beginning of 2011.

Corporate Sustainability Reports (CSR’s) or Corporate Responsibility Reports (CR reports) are published to disclose what companies choose to let the public know about their measurable influences over the ecological, social and economic balance of the world. The more you track and understand new information, the easier transparency becomes and goals can be set. It’s not all numbers either, CSR’s also contain management approaches, policies and goals for human rights issues, legal compliance, product responsibility and leadership objectives.

See the Resources Sustainability Page for more info.