shibn

Let’s start with a question, just a basic one “How many of you are feeling positive today ?” I hope most of you are and it feels good right; being hopeful or giving a cause for happiness to someone or something. It’s giving out from what we have. That’s exactly what Net Positive is all about; giving back more than we take. Net Positive is a new way of doing business by putting back more into society, the environment and the global economy than it takes out. It is basically doing more good than the common notion of doing less bad to the environment. So this act of balance, you’re taking something from one side and giving more on the other side, will help keep the resources replenish and restore.

The Net Positive Project launched on 7 June 2016, aims at making it a standard way for companies to quantify, assess and enhance their positive impacts. The project will also have responsibility for developing resources like guidance and tools, aligning it with parallel movements like circular economy and increase awareness. Kingfisher making forest in exchange of the timber they use as the raw material, IKEA’s PEOPLE AND PLANET strategy, Dell’s online access to degrees, SKF’s BeyondZero strategy are all some of the examples to look into.

Apart from the business point, if we look at it from the very layman side also we can contribute to this Net Positive effect and I suppose its not that difficult. Just imagine growing your own food in your backyard and giving it the kitchen and veg remnants, that we actually waste, as its food; If you eat meat, support the farmers that raise animals on pastures or in it’s habitat. So the core is nothing other than a regenerative approach to bring back the balance. It’s a give and take.

It’s all interconnected, just like natural ecosystems. That’s because we are part of the ecosystem surrounding us. The problem comes when we put us, the self declared intelligent creatures living on the planet, at the center. Instead, we are merely a part of the whole system and its all woven to each other. One part moves, everything moves; even if incremental. We affect change everywhere we go. So, let’s make that change be positive and regenerative.

Again, it’s good to be positive 🙂