Keyword: green business

Making a Living While Making a Difference
Conscious Careers in an Era of Interdependence
by Melissa Everett

Making a Living While Making a Difference is a timely and highly informative guide to a working life built on principled choices and an entrepreneurial attitude. It’s “about” greener enterprises and technologies, socially responsible business, …
related subjects: Environment & Economy , Conscientious Commerce

The Business Case for Sustainability
by Bob Willard

Global climate and energy crises have focused corporate attention onsustainability. The time is right to help business leaders connect thedots between doing well and doing good.
The Business Case for Sustainability presents a compelling case …
related subjects: Conscientious Commerce , Environment & Economy

Biodiesel Power
The Passion, the People, and the Politics of the Next Renewable Fuel
by Lyle Estill

Whether we are nearing the end of oil or merely nearing the end of inexpensive oil, it is becoming increasingly clear that we need to find alternative ways to meet our energy needs. Biodiesel is one such alternative -- and is one of the fastest …
related subjects: Energy

The Next Sustainability Wave
Building Boardroom Buy-in
foreword by Hunter Lovins
by Bob Willard

The idea of sustainability has been embraced enthusiastically by some businesses and rejected by others. The first wave of corporate converts to sustainability was driven by a PR crisis perhaps, regulatory pressures, or the founder's personal …

Futures That Work
Using Search Conferences to Revitalize Companies, Communities and Organizations
by Robert Rehm, Fran Ryan, Martin Large & Nancy Cebula

A search conference is a participative event that enables people to create a plan for the most desirable future of their community or organization, a plan they carry out themselves. This book is a practical guide for using search conferences, …

Dancing with the Tiger
Learning Sustainability Step by Natural Step
by Brian Nattrass & Mary Altomare

Making social and ecological change happen is not easy. At both the planetary and organizational levels, it is a dance that is fraught with danger for both the change agents themselves and their organizations. It is like dancing with a tiger.
For …

The Natural Step for Business
Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation
by Brian Nattrass & Mary Altomare

The Natural Step for Business examines how four very successful "evolutionary" corporations in Sweden and the United States - including IKEA and Scandic Hotels in Sweden, and Collins Pine and Interface in the U.S. - are positioning themselves for …