This book explains what every executive should know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and the business world. Based on the authors' rich experience with forward-thinking companies around the world, "Green to Gold" demonstrates how corporations create value by building environmental thinking into their overall business ...
The award-winning human-rights activist and advisor to policymakers and presidential candidates delivers a 21st-century economic plan to rescue working-class Americans.
Bach outlines 50 ways to make one's life, home, shopping, and personal finances greener--and get rich trying. He offers ways to improve the environment while spending less, saving more, earning more, and paying fewer taxes. (Consumer Finance)
The bestselling author of "Emotional Intelligence" and "Primal Leadership" reveals the hidden environmental consequences of what societies make and buy, and how that knowledge can drive the changes necessary to save the planet.
Businesses are entering the green marketplace at breakneck speed to keep pace with customer and societal demands to reduce their environmental impacts. But greening one's business is no small feat. While clear opportunities abound in this new economy, business leaders pursuing a green strategy are finding few roadmaps and established rules and ...
When industry giants such as GE, Toyota, and Sharp and investment firms such as Goldman Sachs are making multi-billion dollar investments in clean technology, the message is clear. Developing clean technologies is no longer a social issue championed by environmentalists: it's a money-making enterprise moving solidly into the business mainstream. ...
Green has finally hit the mainstream. Soccer moms drive Priuses. And the business consultants say its easy and profitable. In reality, though, many green-leaning businesses, families, and governments are still fiddling while the planet burns. Why? Because implementing sustainability is brutally difficult. In this witty and contrarian book, ...
Of value to business people, environmentalists, and educators alike, "Mid-Course Correction" is a business book about the environment that's written from a personal perspective. With passion and pride, Ray Anderson, founder, Chairman, and CEO of one of the world's largest interior furnishings companies, recounts his awakening to the importance of ...
Today's job seekers are going green and the employment opportunities for environmentally-skilled workers are skyrocketing."Green Jobs" helps job seekers find a job they like - and that'll make the world a better place. This one-of-a-kind handbook shows readers how to: identify the greenest jobs in every industry; break into the fastest growing eco ...
From one of the leading public-health experts of our time, a passionate call to arms to protect ourselves from environmental pollution--and an astonishing revelation of how it's already affected our health. In When Smoke Ran Like Water, the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong ...
Around the world, renewable energy and other clean energy, transportation, water, and materials technologies are now moving solidly into the mainstream, affecting millions of lives. Long considered the "alternative" province of altruistic environmentalists and scientists on research grants, clean tech has emerged as an increasingly lucrative ...
Take the Lead in the Green Revolution With environmental concerns a top issue for consumers everywhere, the green market is the next big boom industry for entrepreneurs looking to make money-and make a difference. "Kermit is wrong! It's easy being green...just read Croston's book. He provides a terrific guide to an amazing array of business eco ...
In each cup of coffee we drink the major issues of the twenty-first century - globalization, immigration, women's rights, pollution, indigenous rights, and self-determination - are played out in villages and remote areas around the world. In "Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee", a unique hybrid of Fair Trade business, ...
Pearce exposes the hidden worlds that sustain a Western lifestyle, and does it by examining the sources of everything in his own life. This work offers a fascinating portrait of the effects the world's 6 billion inhabitants have on the planet, as well as their various working and living conditions.
In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, Owen argues that the greenest community in the U.S. is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York City.
This instructive and inspiring book, written by the man who built the Green Bay Packers into champions, tells businesspeople how to get to the top by implementing the nine core principles that he used as executive vice president and general manager of the team.
Tackling the most pressing problem of our time - how capitalism, and business, can provide a future of wealth, equity and ecological integrity, this book is destined to be one of the most important business, economics and politics books of the year. Sir Jonathon Porritt, CBE, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, is a leading influence on business ...
From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment. Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth diapers or disposables? Some choices have a huge impact on the environment; others are of ...
While a freshman at Princeton, Szaky co-founded a company that produced all-natural, highly effective fertilizer from recycled materials. Every business, he says, should aspire to be good for people, good for the environment, and--last but definitely not least--good for profits.
In this refreshing, unusual, and innovative look at the environment, Dumaine offers an insightful character-driven account of green technology, the fortunes it will create, and the players preparing to win it all.
As consumers demand planet-friendly products and investors look for "green companies" to put their money into, more and more businesses are actively seeking ways to fill this demand. Whether their initial motives are altruistic or not, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and corporate leaders are finding a huge market for green goods and services. ...
For business and investors, the movement toward ecologically forward-thinking companies is growing. Revolutionary and backed by undeniable statistics, this book shows the clear link between sustainability initiatives and clear-cut profitability.
"Green" has gone mainstream, and for many companies caring for the environment is not just a philosophy, itas a marketing strategy. So how does a company thatas genuinely committed to green principles differentiate itself from its greenwashing competitors?Brand expert Richard Seireeni interviewed more than 30 "eco-capitalists" from a broad range ...
In 1997, over 700 million people are hungry. By 2025, the population of the developing countries alone will be approximately seven billion. This book makes a compelling case for a second green revolution, which builds upon the successful technological transformation and yield gains of the first, but which focuses on a programme of broad-based ...
This manual shows managers how businesses can build or retrofit their operations with the latest technologies to reduce emissions and achieve quick returns on investment. More than 50 examples are given of how successful multi-national firms increased profits from energy efficiency and adopting new technologies. The volume turns on its head the ...
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