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Seven ways to tell sustainable stories for green marketers

You can now listen to Wednesday’s, “Your Triple Bottom Line” show

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I shared my green marketing ideas on “Sustainable Storytelling” over the airwaves as a guest on the radio show, “Your Triple Bottom Line.” Show hosts Angelo Fernando and Derrick Mains, CEO of Green Nurture, and I announced the launch of a unique partnership between GreenNurture.com and the Water – Use It Wisely conservation campaign.

We discussed proven ways to engage your employees through sustainable storytelling, coupled with the Green Nurture online platform to encourage behavior change.

Seven storytelling strategies on “Your Triple Bottom Line”

  1. Water Tip #37 Print AdThe Water – Use It Wisely campaign is based on environmental triggers. What are “environmental triggers,” and how do they work?
    “The importance of triggers in your green marketing”
  2. What is the “Three Sunflower” analogy for green marketers in identifying and targeting your audiences when promoting environmental behavior change?
    “How sustainable is your sustainability message?”
  3. What motivates people to make a behavior change more: Because it’s good for the environment or because it’s convenient and easy?
    “The surprising story behind what motivates us.”
  4. Why is it important to speak to a person’s level of “Greenness” to promote behavior change?
    “How well do you know the ‘greenness’ of your customer?”
  5. Why is storytelling so important to changing behavior?
    “Are you a green marketing weirdo trying to change the behavior of normal people?”
  6. How do you make water conservation and other eco-actions personal inside your organization?
    “Feeling all green and tingly inside: How to promote your corporate sustainability initiative internally.”
  7. How to give your water conservation and environmental initiatives handles?
    “Sustainable green marketing isn’t about creating ad campaigns. It’s about igniting movements.”

Donna DiFrancesco, Water Conservation Specialist for the City of Mesa, AZ, is also featured on the show and covered the operational ways businesses can save water.

Derrick Mains said of the water conservation partnership,

greennurture“Water is one of the most overused resources, and it’s costing businesses millions of dollars a year. Thanks to the Water-Use It Wisely campaign over the last ten years, people have become much more water-conscious in their homes. Now it’s time to extend that mentality to the workplace.  This partnership gives GreenNurture an intelligent, effective way to bring important information to our customers about water conservation and adds yet another layer to the Water-Use It Wisely mission.”

You can listen to the show now and call into future shows with questions toll free at 866-536-1100. You can also Tweet your questions to @your3bl.

Picture 1“Your Triple Bottom Line” is a show that unpacks some of the more complex ideas in sustainability. We bring on some of the leading voices in business who make sense of the social, ecological and the economic threads that runs through business. We get them to put aside their talking points, step out of their corporate speak, and have real conversations with us and you our listeners.

Have They Really Found a Way to Monetize Social Media AND Save the Planet?

Derrick Mains, CEO of GreeNurture.com

Derrick Mains, CEO of GreeNurture.com

The guy is built on hummus. He radiates enthusiasm. His perpetual energy is apparently generated from his drive for sustainability. Derrick’s imposing, but gracious, presence lit up the patio at Pita Jungle yesterday as we met for the first time over lunch.

Derrick Mains isn’t just an inspired green CEO. He’s a movement. And his mission manifests itself through a new website GreenNurture.com, although “website” is really too shallow a term for his project. GreenNuture is a first-of-its-kind combination of social media on an enterprise platform to generate conversation and micro eco-actions that help build sustainability in large organizations.

greennurtureThe concept of GreenNurture parallels the “Personal Sustainability Project,” Adam Werbach describes in his book, “Strategy for Sustainability.” Essentially, it’s a principle that encourages employees to take many small, thoughtful “green” steps that create sustainability as a whole for their company.

It’s funny, I asked Derrick if he had met Adam, since his program is such a beautiful enterprise offshoot of PSP. He said he hadn’t, but he’s pretty sure he passed him in the hallway at Walmart, while working with the retail giant to adopt GreeNurture. So I’m guessing Mr. Werbach doesn’t know Derrick either: Talk about two green battleships passing in the night.

GreenNurture makes it easy to launch a trackable sustainability campaign that quickly engages employees. Participants earn credits every time they make a suggestion through the platform, or comment on another employee’s recommendation. The more they converse and act upon sustainability within their company, the more rewards each participant earns, and presumably the more efficient the operation runs. GreenNurture has partnered with RecycleBank.com where participants redeem their rewards for free, or discounted, products or services at over 2,400 local and national retailers and brands.

We just launched our GreenNurture campaign at Park&Co

GreenNuruturemd.It was easy. I spent about 20 minutes setting up our profile and creating our internal sustainability campaign. Our team members will each receive a campaign launch email that will describe how they will participate. I will document our progress for the next 30 days and give you an insight as to how well GreenNurture works for us.

Our GreenNurture Goals are Simple and Doable

  1. Reduce consumption of office supplies by 10%
  2. Reduce our energy use by 10%
  3. Reduce the use of our color copier (are greatest operational expense) by 10%

Our overall goals are to save money, increase camaraderie with the staff, and do our part to be Earth-wise citizens.

I’ll ask our staff to share their assessment of the program within the comments in my blog.

I also invite you to try GreenNurture and let us know how it works for you. The first 30 days are free, as the program is still in beta. I’m sure Derrick and his team will welcome your feedback as well.