Authors:Helen Lewis, John Gertsakis, Tim Grant, Nicola Morell
Publisher: Greenleaf Pubns
Keywords: greener, goods, designing, guide, environment, global, design
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2001-07
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1874719438
ISBN-13: 9781874719434

There is a huge scarcity of good, practical resources for designers and students interested in minimising the environmental impacts of products. Design + Environment has been specifically written to address this paucity. The book first provides background information to help the reader understand how and why design for environment (DfE) has become so critical to design, with reference to some of the most influential writers, designers and companies in the field. Next, Design + Environment provides a step-by-step approach on how to approach DfE: to design a product that meets requirements fo

Author: Christa Liedtke
Publisher: Greenleaf Pubns
Keywords: enterprise, sustainable, towards, efficiency, eco
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1874719608
ISBN-13: 9781874719601

Business-as-usual, it is widely accepted, will exceed the Earth’s carrying capacity in an alarmingly short space of time. In simple terms, we need to learn to use the world’s rapidly depleting resources in a significantly more efficient manner. Practical and readily adopted solutions are needed now. Eco-efficiency--or ’produce more with less’--is achieved when goods and services satisfy human needs, increase the quality of life at competitive prices and when environmental impacts and resource intensity are decreased to a degree that keeps them within the limits of Earth

Authors:Jorg Andriof, Sandra Waddock, Brian Husted, Sandra Su
Publisher: Greenleaf Pubns
Keywords: responsibility, engagement, theory, thinking, stakeholder, unfolding
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-10-31
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1874719527
ISBN-13: 9781874719526

This work - the first of a two-volume series - argues that stakeholder thinking has evolved into the study of interactive, mutually engaged and responsive relationships that establish the very context of doing modern business, and create the groundwork for transparency and accountability. The book makes it clear that in today’s societies successful companies are those that recognise that they have responsibilities to a range of stakeholders that go beyond mere compliance with the law or meeting the fiduciary responsibility inherent in maximizing returns to shareholders. If in the past, t

Authors:Martin Charter, Ursula Tischner, Martin Charter, Ursu
Publisher: Greenleaf Pubns
Keywords: services, future, products, developing, solutions, sustainable
Number of Pages: 469
Published: 2001-02
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1874719365
ISBN-13: 9781874719366

Toughening environmental legislation, national and supra-national environmental product policies and growing customer demands are focusing the attention of companies on the environmental and broader social issues linked to the creation and delivery of their products and services. There is now a need for appropriate management structures, practical tools and increased awareness among all stakeholders in the product development process and throughout the entire product lifestyle. These issues have implications for corporate management, design and production strategies. This book provides both an

Authors:Edward Cohen-Rosenthal, Judy Musnikow,
Publisher: Greenleaf Pu
Keywords: economic, development, environment, synergy, unleashing, industrial, strategies, eco
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1874719624
ISBN-13: 9781874719625

Old-style manufacturing, embodied in industrial parks that litter the landscape, may soon become dinosaurs of industrial development. These ’Jurassic Parks’ of the past will be replaced by new Eco-industrial Parks (EIPs) that link manufacturers more closely together into an industrial ecosystem for business and environmental excellence. Companies have always depended on a larger ecology of suppliers, customers, geography and market to be successful, but a popular mythology was that each company was an island. Abandoning this fantasy by consciously integrating into a larger industri

Authors:Stefan Schaltegger, Roger Burritt, Holger Peterse,
Publisher: Greenleaf Publishing
Keywords: management, environmental, corporate, introduction
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-06-20
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1874719659
ISBN-13: 9781874719656

This book is designed to meet the urgent need for a comprehensive and definitive introduction and teaching text on corporate environmental management. It aims to become the standard textbook for courses examining how business can take the environment into account while also providing an accessible and thorough overview of this increasingly multidisciplinary subject for practioners.

Author: Bob Doppelt
Publisher: Greenleaf Publishing
Keywords: change, civil, society, revised, government, guide, sustainability, management, leading, business
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2010-01-31
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1906093342
ISBN-13: 9781906093341

Since Leading Change toward Sustainability was first published in late 2003, many leaders have made significant progress in transforming their organisations into better social and environmental citizens. But many have not. As the world struggles to cope with the growing threat of a global carbon crisis, Bob Doppelt has revised one of the best books ever written about change management, leadership and sustainability to focus on de-carbonisation. To significantly slash greenhouse gases and prepare for climate change, organisations of all sizes will need to undergo an enormous shift in their th