David Mager, Joe Sibilia

Street Smart Sustainability (eBook, ePUB)

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Profitably Greening Your Organization's DNA

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Go Green While Making Green You already know why your company should go green. This comprehensive guide tells you how to do it profitably. It details every step of the process-from getting employee buy-in and conducting a current sustainability audit to developing a plan of action and measuring progress. Nuts-and-bolts guidance helps you make continuous, cost-effective improvements and shift the prevailing business culture by infusing green practices into your organization's very DNA. Through illustrative examples from a wide variety of industries, this book shows how to: . Design sustainable products . Green your facilities . Find green vendors . Use renewable energy . Reduce harmful emissions . Recycle waste products, and more The emphasis is on practicality-stand-alone chapters you can read when you need them and tools you can use to implement change in any area of your organization. enough

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781605099606
• Artikelnr.: 38329144

Autorenporträt

David Mager has helped over 300 Fortune 500 and entrepreneurial companies become green profitably and recently worked as an advisor on sustainability issues to the Obama Transition Team.

Inhaltsangabe

Letter from the Editor of the Social Venture
Network Series
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Leadership--Greening from the Top
Chapter 2 Audits--Measuring Where You Are
Chapter 3 The Plan--Implementing Your Sustainability Vision
Chapter 4 Metrics--If You Can Measure It, You Can Manage It
Chapter 5 Design--Making It Sustainable from the Start
Chapter 6 Facility--Making Your Workplace Green
Chapter 7 Energy--Using Renewable Energy, Energy Audits, and Conservation
Chapter 8 Carbon--Quantifying and Reducing Your Carbon Footprint
Chapter 9 Purchasing--Using Your Dollar To Save The Planet
Chapter 10 Reduce--Getting To Net Zero Emissions and Releases
Chapter 11 Waste--Turning an Environmental Problem into a Business Solution
Afterword
Resource A Employee Questionnaire and Cover letter
Resource B Audit Protocol
Resource C ISO 14000 Summary
Resource D Input/Output Mass Balance Analysis
Resource E Life Cycle Analysis Matrix
Resource F Energy Source Calculator
Resource G Carbon Footprint Calculator
Resource H Vendor Questionnaire
Index
About Social Venture Network
About the Authors
About the Book