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Santee Manufacturer QCMI Completes Inaugural Program on Sustainable Practices
Originally published in Sustainable San Diego, a monthly supplement of the San Diego Business Journal.
Rick Urban, a top executive at Quality Controlled Manufacturing Inc. (QCMI) in Santee, is always seeking better ways to keep his complex machining business on the leading edge of new practices and processes.
With innovation top of mind, QCMI recently completed an inaugural sixmonth sustainability program under the auspices of San Francisco-based consulting firm True Market Solutions in partnership with San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

QCMI Creates Sustainability Plan with True Market Solutions
Precision machining manufacturer, Quality Controlled Manufacturing Inc., recently created a companywide sustainability action plan during a six-month Sustainability Circle™ program developed and facilitated by True Market Solutions. Santee, Calif. (PRWEB) January 14,...
Sustainability Circles a New Option to Catapult SMEs
Iowa State Bank president sees potential in going green to change entire business model
Originally published in Axiom News
A new approach is available to support small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to get ahead of the curve, save money, help the environment and gain new market share.
The Fowler Center for Sustainable Value, an arm of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management , is launching the first Ohio sustainability circle consulting project this month.
Video: Profits for SMEs
This clever video spells out why sustainability practices make good business sense for small to mid-sized enterprises.
Video: Ray Anderson—The Business Logic fo Sustainability
Ray Anderson was the Founder of Interface, Inc. and author of Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model and Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose: Doing Business by Respecting the Earth.
In these 2 videos, Anderson discusses the Business Logic of Sustainability.
Video: World Economic Forum—Can Sustainability Drive Growth?
Watch this in-depth discussion from Davos 2011 as leaders discuss whether sustainable development can drive growth—how; what are the strategies; what do we know that works; and what have we tried that hasn’t worked.