Developing a Restorative Operational Model.
After designing a product based on natural principles, the next step is to set up operations that will allow you to scale up production without growing your negative footprint at an equal (or greater) rate; in fact, the ultimate goal is to design your operations such that you have a net positive financial, social, and ecological footprint, such that an operational scale-up corresponds to a net gain for your company, community, and local and global environment: this is triple-top-line growth.
For product manufacturing, this kind of process development begins with benign material selection. Quaking Aspen draws upon its own expertise and its extended network in green chemistry to assist you in setting up cleaner, more benign, and ultimately restorative operations.
Most services also have some social and ecological footprint, such as a carbon footprint. Developing restorative processes for a service offering revolves around managing this social and ecological footprint for each business process.
Once product and process have been developed in a manner supporting sustainable growth, the model of manufacture can be pushed toward one of closed-loop production.
