Green Company’s Newest Office Located in “Like-minded” Philadelphia Region

July 13, 2009 - PRLog -- Five Winds International, a sustainability management company with locations in the U.S., Canada and Europe, today announced the opening of their newest office in the Philadelphia region. The company had identified the need for an additional site to meet the growing demand for their services in the Northeastern U.S. and locating in the Philadelphia area was seen as a positive move with win-win potential.

“We are thrilled that our latest office is located in a region that shares our commitment to the environment and sustainability,” says Five Winds Managing Director Dr. James Fava.  As a carbon neutral business, we are impressed with some of Philadelphia’s advantages – like great transit, an impressive pool of talented professionals from which to hire, and a push for greener operations. In turn, I think we have a lot to offer Philadelphia. The City and businesses operating in and around the area can now tap into our ‘local’ expertise to help them meet their own social and environmental goals.”

Five Winds has been in operation for over ten years, helping clients in North and South America, Europe and Australia to incorporate environmental business practices and social responsibility into their core business activities. The advantages to this approach are two-fold: it allows corporations, businesses and other organizations to operate within the best interests of the environment and – in turn – of society; and it provides a competitive business advantage where the returns of operating in this capacity are financially advantageous. While sustainability management is a fairly new concept to many businesses, it is based on practices that have been adopted internationally for well over a decade.

“The idea that environmentally sound business practices can provide companies with a competitive advantage is a new way of thinking for many organizations,” explains Dr. Fava. “Once there is an understanding that it can help them to run their operations more efficiently, provide brand enhancement and improve customer relationships, it becomes an easier decision to go green. For those already navigating sustainable operations, we also provide guidance in terms of best practices and the newest technologies and approaches.  We are looking forward to working with both types of companies in this region of the country. And the fact that we can do this in a location like Philadelphia that is so strongly committed to the environment is a definite plus.”

While its sustainability services are new to many companies in the Northeastern U.S., the range of clients Five Winds has worked with over its tenure include large multinationals like Johnson & Johnson, Coca Cola and BASF, municipal organizations like the City of Denver and MetroVancouver, British Columbia, and global associations like the Organisation for Economic Co-operation.

For more information regarding Five Winds International and its newest location in the Philadelphia area, please visit www.fivewinds.com.

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Five Winds International is a management consulting firm that helps organizations improve the business, environmental and social performance - the sustainability - of their operations, products, and services. Founded in 1998.