ethipedia Site Manual
Sustainable Business Practice Step By Step Guide
| --- | Below is a step by step guide to completing your Sustainable Business Practice submission. |
Please note that your submissions will not be automatically published on the site. They must first be reviewed by the site analysts to ensure that they meet criteria for publication. If the sustainable practice meets ethipedia’s criteria, and style requirements, the profile will be published as soon as possible.
Organization:
As a first step, it is essential that you provide the name of the business with which the sustainable practice is associated.
Title:
The title summarizes your text in a short sentence.
Translation guidelines:
If you want your profile to be publishable in English and in French, you must select a language; this is necessary to have a translation added. If you don’t select anything, your profile will appear on both sides of the site without being translated.
Sector:
Allows you to classify the company or organization carrying out the sustainable practice by their industry sector.
Contact person:
The point person who carried out the sustainable practice, or who can be contacted for more details.
Site:
Place (city, region, country) where the sustainable practice was carried out. This may differ from the organization’s headquarters.
Website:
Website of the organization; if available the webpage concerning the sustainable practice itself.
Summary:
Gives a short history of the sustainable practice, including the context in which it was carried out.
Implementation:
Referencing the above summary, details each step needed to carry out the sustainable practice.
Challenges of implementation:
Describes the difficulties encountered in carrying out the sustainable practice, whether they be financial, human, environmental, or otherwise.
Social and Environmental Benefits / Results:
These two sections point to the positive outcomes of the practice from an environmental and social point of view, as well as monetary.
Other examples:
If the profile author is aware of other examples associated with other organizations, using a similar sustainable practice, they can cite these examples to provide a broader perspective.


