About SRG
Our Purpose
Our Approach
Our Services
Our Board
About SRG
SRG
is in business to help manufacturers,
service companies, governmental and institutional organizations
identify, document, and improve
their performance to the triple bottom-line
defined as performance that simultaneously improves the integrity
of ecological systems,
the vitality of the economy and the
advancement of social equity.
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Our Purpose
The
purpose of the Sustainable Research Group is to help create a system
of commerce for our partners that is simultaneously life affirming,
value-based and ethically driven.
In achieving its purpose SRG will subscribe to the following operating
principles:
Our
Approach
We operate with
the belief that global competition
for natural resources will drive organizations to seek maximum
resource
efficiency in the design, production and
delivery of their services and products.
SRG provides its clients with
a unique set of intellectual assets in research, development
and management to help them simultaneously
improve the economic vitality,
environmental integrity and social equity their enterprise.
This approach is known as using the Triple
Bottom Line to achieve a competitive
advantage.
SRG’s goal
is to help identify radical improvements in raw material
usage, to promote a culture of continual improvement through
the development of environmental
business metrics and to foster
the creation of innovative products and services that solve existing
or anticipated problems for our client’s employees, customers
and investors.
Global economic, social
and environmental systems are now changing at such a rapid pace
that business leaders are beginning to develop
long-range plans that re-evaluates
their strategic role in the market place. They are beginning to
assess the ecological impact of their
products and services on earth’s ecosystems and the environmental
and social impact on their customers.
Adding these two new dimensions to their strategic approach to business
has helped define environmental
sustainability for global commerce.
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Our Services
Research
Marketing
Consulting
Real Estate Development
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Our
Board
Sustainable Research Group (SRG) was created as a Limited
Liability Company (LLC) in January of 2002.
William
A. Stough, Chief Executive Officer, has over 25 years
experience in providing technical assistance in the fields
of environmentally sustainable business initiatives, industrial
ecology, pollution prevention and ISO 14001 environmental management
systems. Mr. Stough is the founder and past president of the
West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum, and has organized
regional sustainable business networks in the Saginaw Bay Watershed,
in Southeast Michigan and in Central Michigan. He has served
as a business sustainability consultant to the Office Furniture
Industry Council, the International Design Center for the Environment
and the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
He is an ANSI-RAB
registered ISO 14001 Environmental
Management System Auditor and
was the technical staff advisor
for the development of the
OFIC Sustainability Principles,
which adds sustainability elements
to an EMS. He has served as
president of the board of directors
for the Center for Environmental
Study, the West Michigan Environmental
Action Council, the Land Conservancy
of West Michigan, and the Michigan
Association of Environmental
Professionals. Bill is a Charter
Member of the International
Society for Industrial Ecology
and recipient of the Michigan
Sustainable Business Forum’s 2002 Individual
Achievement Award. bstough@sustainableresearchgroup.com
Paul
M. Murray, President,
is Herman Miller Inc.'s Environmental
Affairs Manager. Herman Miller is one of the leading manufacturers office
furniture
and is located in Zeeland,
MI. The company has 7500 employees and over one and a half billion dollars
in sales worldwide.
Herman Miller is widely recognized
as an international leader in the development of sustainable business practices.
Mr. Murray
began his industrial career
as a Research and Development Chemist for PPG Industries and Boise Cascade
Corp. He developed
wood coatings and finishes
for nine years before joining Herman Miller eleven years ago as a production
manager. He
accepted his current role in
environmental affairs seven years ago. He holds an undergraduate degree
in Chemistry
and a Masters Degree in Management.
Paul is an active participant on several work groups for Michigan's Department
of Natural
Resources working on the Clean
Air Act implementation. He is a member of the National Association of Manufacturing's
Environmental Steering Committee
in Washington, DC. He also
chairs NAM’s subcommittee on Environmental Justice.
Paul also serves on the board
of directors for several non-profit
organizations.
Thomas
Fehsenfeld, Chief Financial Officer, is President of
Crystal Flash Energy, a family owned fuels distribution and
resource recovery company. It serves residential, commercial
and industrial customers throughout Michigan with sales of
approximately $100 million per year. Crystal Flash Energy is
part of The Heritage Group, headquartered in Indianapolis,
Indiana. The Heritage Group is a diversified family of companies
involved in asphalt production, construction, environmental
remediation, petroleum distribution, petroleum refining, and
stone and aggregate production.
Tom is widely recognized in the business community as an environmental
leader by being an early advocate of the strategic value of
sustainability. He was a founding member of the West Michigan
Sustainable Business Forum in 1994, and is the recipient of
numerous awards for his contributions in such areas as used
oil recycling, water quality and sustainable business practices.
Mr. Fehsenfeld was a partner in the company that built the
first commercial wind powered generators in the State at Mackinaw
City, Michigan. He is one of only three private sector members
of the Grand Valley Metropolitan Council, a past president
of the board of directors of the West Michigan Sustainable
Business Forum, and current chair of its energy committee.
Tom is currently a board member of the Product Development
and Management Association.
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