Featured Books & eBooks - Sustainable Business
Can Business Save the Earth?: Innovating Our Way to Sustainability by Call Number: HD30.255 .L46ISBN: 9780804790994Publication Date: 2018Based on more than a decade of research and work with companies, Michael Lenox and Aaron Chatterji argue that a bright green future is only possible with dramatic innovation across multiple sectors at the same time. To achieve this, a broader ecosystem of players--including inventors, executives, customers, investors, activists, and governments--all must play a role. This book outlines how and the extent to which each group can serve as a driver of green growth.
Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion Dollar Business by Call Number: HD57.7 .W534ISBN: 9780814436134Publication Date: 2015What do Brazil's top beauty brand, America's second-fastest-growing restaurant chain, and the world's third bestselling car have in common? They are shattering the myth that acting sustainably and building a billion-dollar business are mutually exclusive. Green Giants examines nine companies that are merging social responsibility with wild profitability-and reveals the six factors responsible for their success.
Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability by Call Number: HC79.E5D34ISBN: 9780262018760Publication Date: 2013In Eco-Business, Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister examine this new corporate embrace of sustainability, its actual accomplishments, and the consequences for the environment. While for many leading-brand companies, these corporate sustainability efforts go deep—reorienting central operations and extending through global supply chains—the authors argue that the eco-efficiencies achieved by such big-brand companies may actually limit the potential for finding deeper solutions to pressing environmental problems and reinforce runaway consumption.
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Revised Ed) by Call Number: HD60 .H393ISBN: 9780061252792Publication Date: 2010The Ecology of Commerce is the provocative, national bestseller that addresses the necessity of merging good business practices with common sense environmental concerns. Nearly two decades after its initial publication, this controversial work by Paul Hawken has been revised and updated, arguing why business success and sustainable environmental practices need not—and, for the sake of our planet, must not—be mutually exclusive any longer.
The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World by Call Number: HC79.E5 N436ISBN: 9780385519045Publication Date: 2010Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another, where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where "regenerative" commercial buildings—ones that create more energy than they use—are being designed. A world in which environmentally sound products and processes would be more cost-effective than wasteful ones. Now, stop imagining - that world is already emerging. There is a long way to go, but the era of denial has ended.
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Fries, Jessica; Anthony Hopwood; & Jeffrey Unerman. Accounting for Sustainability: Practical Insights. (2010) - eBook
Werbach, Adam. Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manfesto. (2009) - HD30.28 .W388
Esty, Daniel & Andrew Winston. Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage. (2006) - HD30.255 .E88
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Security & Sustainability Forum. The Business of Risk: Climate and Resilience. (2016)
The Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years by ISBN: 9780980122787Publication Date: 2012Patagonia, named by Fortune in 2007 as the coolest company on the planet, has earned a reputation as much for its ground-breaking environmental and social practices as for the quality of its clothes. In this exceptionally frank account, Chouinard and Stanley recount how the company and its culture gained the confidence, by step and misstep, to make its work progressively more responsible, and to share its discoveries with companies as large as Wal-Mart and as small as the corner bakery.
Building the Responsible Enterprise: Where Vision and Values Add Value by Call Number: HD60 .W323ISBN: 9780804781947Publication Date: 2012Building the Responsible Enterprise provides students and practitioners with a practical, yet academically rooted, introduction to the state-of-the-art in sustainability and corporate social responsibility. The text features sections dedicated to understanding the context for CSR, developing a vision, managing an enterprise, and acting responsibly within the global sphere.
Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World by Call Number: HC60 .R482ISBN: 9780816665457Publication Date: 2011In Brand Aid, Lisa Ann Richey and Stefano Ponte offer a deeply informed and stinging critique of "compassionate consumption." Campaigns like Product RED and its precursors (such as Lance Armstrong's Livestrong and the pink-ribbon project) advance consumption far more than they meet the needs of the people they ostensibly serve. Using Product RED as its focal point, this book explores how corporations like American Express, Armani, Gap, and Hallmark promote compassionate consumption to improve their ethical profile without significantly altering their business model.
The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win by Call Number: HD60 .H648ISBN: 9780470558423Publication Date: 2010How to create a company that not only sustains, but surpasses—that moves beyond the imperative to be "less bad" and embraces an ethos to be "all good." From the Chairman of Seventh-Generation, the country's leading brand of household products and a pioneering "good company," comes a one-of-a-kind book for leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents everywhere. The Responsibility Revolution reveals the smartest ways for companies to build a better future-and hold themselves accountable for the results.
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Anderson, Ray. Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose: Doing Business by Respecting the Earth. (2009) - HD30.255 .A53
McElhaney, Kellie. Just Good Business: The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility & Brand. (2008) - HD60 .M378
Epstein, Marc & Kirk Hanson. Accountable Corporation. (2006) - HD2741 .A282
Townsend, A. K. Green Business: A Five-Part Model for Creating an Environmentally Responsible Company. (2006) - HD30.255 .T69
Benefit Corporation Law and Governance: Pursuing Profit with Purpose by ISBN: 9781523083589Publication Date: 2017Corporations today are embedded in a system of shareholder primacy. Non-financial concerns like worker well-being, environmental impact, and community health are secondary to the imperative to maximize share price. Benefit corporation governance reorients corporations so that they work for the interests of all stakeholders, not just shareholders. This is the first authoritative guide to this new form of governance. It is an invaluable guide for legal and financial professionals, as well as interested entrepreneurs and investors who want to understand how purposeful corporate governance can be put into practice.
Innovation and Scaling for Impact: How Effective Social Enterprises Do It by Call Number: HD60 .S436ISBN: 9780804797344Publication Date: 2017Drawing on a decade of research, Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair transcend widely held misconceptions, getting to the core of what a sound impact strategy entails in the nonprofit world. They reveal an overlooked nexus between investments that might not pan out (innovation) and expansion based on existing strengths (scaling). In the process, it becomes clear that managing this tension is a difficult balancing act that fundamentally defines an organization and its impact.
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Call Number: HC102.5 .C42ISBN: 9780143109679Publication Date: 2016From his youth as the son of a French Canadian blacksmith to the thrilling, ambitious climbing expeditions that inspired his innovative designs for the sport's equipment, Let My People Go Surfing is the story of a man who brought doing good and having grand adventures into the heart of his business life—a book that will deeply affect entrepreneurs and outdoor enthusiasts alike.
The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good by ISBN: 9781626560437Publication Date: 2014Learn how you can join more than 1,000 Certified B Corporations from 80 industries and 35 countries in a global movement to redefine success in business. Drawing on interviews, tips, and best practices from over 100 B Corporations, author and B Corp owner Ryan Honeyman shows that using business as a force for good can help you attract and retain the best talent, distinguish your company in a crowded market, and increase customer trust, loyalty, and evangelism for your brand.
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Bloom, Paul. Scaling Your Social Venture: Becoming an Impact Entrepreneur. (2012) - HD60 .B58
Yunus, Muhammad. Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs. (2010) - HD60 .Y85
Bornstein, David & Susan Davis. Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know. (2010) - HD60 .B67
Yunus, Muhammad. Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. (2007) - HD60 .Y86
A Simple Path to Sustainability Green Buisness Strategies for Small & Medium-Sized Businesses by ISBN: 9780313382703Publication Date: 2011With unequaled insight, business experts profile twelve outstanding, sustainable, small- to medium-sized enterprises and explain how their green strategies and methods have helped them succeed. Case histories include industries as diverse as manufacturing, health care, and finance.
The Complete Guide to Greener Meetings and Events by Call Number: GT3405 .G653ISBN: 9780470640104Publication Date: 2011While there are many reasons to incorporate sustainable practices into meetings and events—including saving costs and resources, protecting the environment, improving social issues, doing business more efficiently and effectively and attracting new audiences—the number one reason to go green is simply to do business better. This book broadly explores sustainable management in the hospitality, tourism, conference and exhibition, and meeting and event industries, as well as countless smaller industries that include arts and music festivals and tour operators.
The Green to Gold Business Playbook: How to Implement Sustainability Practices for Bottom-Line Results in Every Business Function by Call Number: HD30.255 .E883ISBN: 9780470590751Publication Date: 2011With rising energy and natural resource costs, intensified regulations, investor pressures, and a growing demand for environmentally friendly products, sustainability is no longer an option—it’s a business imperative. Unlike many green business books, the Playbook skips the environmental ideology and deals exclusively with tools and strategies that have been shown to cut costs, reduce risks, drive revenues, and build brand identity.
Street Smart Sustainability: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Profitably Greening Your Organization's DNA by ISBN: 9781605094656Publication Date: 2010You 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.
The Green Workplace: Sustainable Strategies that Benefit Employees, the Environment, and the Bottom Line by Call Number: HD30.255 .S77ISBN: 9780230614284Publication Date: 2009Twenty-first century companies realize they need to be green to compete. Leigh Stringer, an expert on sustainable workplace design and strategy, details how companies can radically transform their practices, bring together diverse teams, and establish new organizational governance for creative problem-solving toward a greener workplace. Her hands-on green strategies include concrete and cost-effective changes that can reduce costs, increase productivity, improve recruitment and retention, and bolster shareholder value.
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Hitchcock, Darcy. Business Guide to Sustainability: Practical Strategies & Tools for Organizations. (2006) - eBook
Tourism Resilience and Adaptation to Environmental Change by ISBN: 9781138206793Publication Date: 2017Tourism scholars have been slow to adopt resilience concepts, even at a time when the emergence of new frameworks and applications is pressing. Drawing on original empirical and theoretical insights in resilience thinking, this book explores how tourism communities and economies respond to environmental changes, both fast (natural hazard disasters) and slow (incremental shifts). It explores how tourism places adapt, change, and sometimes transform (or not) in relation to their environmental context, with an awareness of intersection with societal dynamics and links to political, economic and social drivers of change.
Tourism and Sustainability: Development, Globalisation & New Tourism in the Third World (4th Ed.) by Call Number: G155.D44 M69ISBN: 9781138013261Publication Date: 2015Tourism and Sustainability explores the sociocultural and environmental impacts of development, globalization and “the new tourism.” It remains an essential resource for students of human geography, environmental sciences, politics, development studies, anthropology and business studies—as well as tourism itself!
Sustainability, Social Responsibility & Innovations in Tourism and Hospitality by Call Number: G156.5.S87 S93ISBN: 9781926895673Publication Date: 2015A reference on sustainability, social responsibility, and green practices in hospitality and tourism, this book presents innovative research methods in sustainability, state-of-the-art research by leading internationally recognized scholars on the topic, and an excellent source of quality research. Readers will find numerous case studies of applications from hotels, restaurants, tourist destinations, and travel companies.
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Erfurt-Cooper, Patricia & Malcolm Cooper. Volcano & Geothermal Tourism: Sustainable Geo-Resources for Leisure and Recreation. (2010) - eBook
Sharpley, Richard. Tourism Development & the Environment: Beyond Sustainability? (2009) - eBook
Green Information Technology: A Sustainable Approach by ISBN: 9780128013793Publication Date: 2015We are living in the era of "Big Data" and the computing power required to deal with "Big Data" both in terms of its energy consumption and technical complexity is one of the key areas of IT research and development. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that centralized computing infrastructures (data centres) currently use 7 giga watts of electricity during peak loads—about the annual output of 15 average-sized power plants. This volume offers a broad collection of practical techniques and methodologies for designing, building and implementing a green technology strategy in any large enterprise environment and includes the latest information on emerging technologies and their environmental impact.
Greening Through IT: Information Technology for Environmental Sustainability by ISBN: 9780262285087Publication Date: 2012Environmental issues often span long periods of time, far-flung areas, and labyrinthine layers of complexity. Bill Tomlinson demonstrates how the tools and techniques of information technology (IT) can help us tackle environmental problems at such vast scales. Bridging theoretical, technological, and social aspects of the growing "Green IT" discipline, Bill Tomlinson presents both a human-centered framework for understanding Green IT systems and specific examples and case studies of Green IT in action.
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Webber, Larry & Michael Wallace. Green Tech: How to Plan & Implement Sustainable IT Solutions. (2009) - eBook
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Security & Sustainability Forum. Making a Big Impact in Sustainability Science with Big Data. (2017)