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- 3. A business that aims to strengthen its social and environmental ecosystems by creating opportunities for other businesses and communities to develop, and by restoring the natural environment. The business enjoys a network of mutual benefits and increased resiliency.
- 4. A business model that aims to work more like nature, by designing systems that feed back outputs as inputs, and by designing out waste from the start.
- 5. A production model that reduces waste by ensuring outputs of the production system feed back into the system as inputs.
- 9. The income that a business generates.
- 12. A way of thinking about how the world should be or how to value actions or situations.
- 13. The cost of producing a single unit of output.
- 15. Any organisation that has a social and/or environmental purpose at its core; it describes the primary purpose of a business, not its legal form.
- 17. Any individual or group that affects, or is affected by, an organisation.
- 18. A plan that an organisation creates in order to reach a specific goal.
- 20. The expansion of a business in terms of revenue, profit, number of employees, locations or another important metric.
- 21. The capturing of value from other stakeholders, either outside or inside the business.
- 22. A business model that enables businesses to reduce new material inputs, replacing them with recovered or bio-based materials.
- 24. The process of mimicking nature’s forms, processes and systems to solve human problems.
- 25. Spending by a business on non-current (fixed) assets; also known as capital expenditure.
- 26. All the benefits that a business creates for the stakeholders involved.
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- 1. A long term goal, a dream or understanding of what the future should look like.
- 2. Taking resources from the Earth, making products with them and then disposing of the products.
- 6. Businesses actively seeking ways to improve society and the environment through core business activities and business designs.
- 7. A short statement that defines what the organisation does, right now, in order to achieve its vision.
- 8. Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
- 10. Someone who owns part of a business.
- 11. A situation where a non-profit social enterprise has greater revenue than costs; non-profits must reinvest the money into the enterprise.
- 14. A system in which members of an organisation are ranked according to authority.
- 16. A small action that a business takes to reach its goals.
- 19. All of the goods and services that a business offers.
- 23. A stated outcome that a business aims to achieve; can be broadly stated in vision and mission statements, or more narrowly stated with measurable outcomes.