Street Smart Sustainability The Entrepreneur's Guide to Profitably Greening Your Organizations DNA

Name: Street Smart Sustainability The Entrepreneur's Guide to Profitably Greening Your Organizations DNA
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ISBN: 9781605094656

ISBN-10: 160509465X

ISBN-13: 9781605094656

Edition: 2010

Authors: David Mager, Joe Sibilia

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Street Smart Sustainability is designed to be a road map to the sustainable low-hanging fruit at a time when the public is hungry for businesses that demonstrate genuine respect for the environment. In its 120-150 pages, this book cannot be a comprehensive guide to sustainability, but it should provide about 80% of the guidance that a 1,000-page book on the subject would provide. The book will be supplemented by a Web site that acts as a repository of all information on the topic, searchable by key word, with interactive questions and answers functionality in a 'user generated' module Individual chapters will be designed to act as standalone sets of action steps on particular topics. The…

Book details

List price: $13.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Letter from the Editor of the Social Venture Network Series


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Leadership-Greening from the Top



Audits-Measuring Where You Are



The Plan-Implementing Your Sustainability Vision



Metrics-If You Can Measure It, You Can Manage It



Design-Making It Sustainable from the Start



Facility-Making Your Workplace Green



Energy-Using Renewable Energy, Energy Audits, and Conservation



Carbon-Quantifying and Reducing Your Carbon Footprint



Purchasing-Using Your Dollar to Save the Planet



Reduce-Getting to Net Zero Emissions and Releases



Waste-Turning an Environmental Problem into a Business Opportunity


Afterword


Notes and Resources



Cover Letter and Employee Questionnaire



Audit Protocol



Summary of ISO 14001-Environmental Management Systems



Input/Output Mass Balance Analysis



Life Cycle Analysis Matrix



Energy Source Calculator



Carbon Footprint Calculator



Vendor Questionnaire


Index


About Social Venture Network


About the Authors


About This Book