BAM and Creation Care

One Big Thing: The One Thing a God-honouring Business Must Do to Be a Good Creation Care Steward: Part 1

Business as Mission (BAM) companies serve people who face great environmental, even existential challenges. BAM practitioners are on the ground already in many areas of the greatest need and are positioned to respond. To help BAM practitioners meet the business as mission goal— or bottom line—of environmental stewardship, we asked some of the leading Christian scientists and thinkers on the topic of business and creation care:

• What is the one thing you would tell a God-honouring business they must do to be a good creation care steward?

• What other advice would you give to those businesses?

This paper encourages God-honouring businesses to sustain the environment, as they also love their neighbours and care for the poor. It provides practical suggestions how to get there. Our hope is that as a result both creation and businesses will thrive.

How Are We Doing? An Environmental Stewardship Survey of BAM Practitioners: Part 2

Environmental stewardship is a critical outcome, or ‘bottom line’, of business. However, organisations and companies face challenges in managing their environmental systems and creating a positive environmental impact. This report aims to understand the challenges, both technical and institutional, faced by business as mission entities in particular. It explores the implications for environmental stewardship practices and the successful implementation of Environmental Management Systems by BAM practitioners.

Challenge and Hope: How Business can Help the Planet and Its People Flourish: Part 3

All businesses are environmental businesses and we need the BAM community to be leading the way in recognising this! That is the first major theme of the BAM and Creation Care series; that every business as mission entity has the opportunity to grow in their care of creation. While all BAM companies can become better environmental stewards, there is a second major theme to the BAM and Creation Care Consultation; the opportunity for some Christian entrepreneurs and investors to create new BAM companies that address critical environmental problems with innovative business solutions and new technologies. Part three in the series explores that opportunity.

Caring for Creation: Environmental Management Systems for BAM Companies: Part 4

The findings of the BAM and Creation Care Consultation indicate a profound shift in the attitude of BAM practitioners to environmental stewardship and creation care in the last decade. Environmental stewardship was important to survey respondents both personally and in their business. While this is an encouraging development, an outstanding challenge identified was the effective implementation of Environmental Management Systems (EMS).  Historically BAM practitioners have lacked capacity and resources to care for creation as they would hope to. This paper is a response to this challenge and provides guidance in establishing an EMS, plus points to further resources that should significantly aid the BAM community to mature in its environmental stewardship.

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