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As a part of the possibility to restructure considering a regional plant or partnering with existing organic plants, Stonyfield farm’s could maintain they eco-friendly operations internationally in the following ways: 1. Adopt energy efficient practice at the plant 2. Make use of renewable energy and green power 3. Reduce, reuse and recycle 4. Cut back on pollution. It is important for Stonyfield farm’s to maintain their eco-friendly operations in countries globally because countries such at the UK lose a lot of their working age people due to pollution (Vaughan, 2009). To begin, Stonyfield farm’s could adopt energy efficient practice at the plant by using programmable thermostats to reduce energy waste. Next, Stonyfield farm’s could build their own source of renewable energy on the premises of the plant or purchase green energy from an external source. Also, Stonyfield farm’s can reduce, reuse and recycle-they could rethink and redesign their packaging to get rid of excess materials. Lastly, Stonyfield farm’s can cut back on pollution while recycling. Instead of sending used material to landfills it can be donated or reused. (Going green, 2012).

Stonyfield farm’s CEO Gary Hirschberg suggest that as a business owner you make money while saving the world- being eco- friendly. In 2010, Hirschberg and his company introduced the Grower Sustainability Toolkit- which is a standard applied in Stonyfield farm’s business that looks at how their suppliers treat their workers, their energy and water use (Kaplan, 2010). Applying this standard he implies that that purchasing is one of the most powerful things you can do to influence behavior and at Stonyfield farm’s they are able to get growers to think about those issues. (Kaplan, 2010). According to research done by Kenexa Research Institute data shows that organizations in the U.S. lag significantly behind organizations in the UK, Germany, France, Canada, India and Spain in terms of having genuine efforts to protect the...