Good Green Guide for Small Businesses
Good Green Guide for Small Businesses

Author: Impetus Consulting

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1408105616

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Can your business go green? Can it afford not to? Never has our impact on the environment been so relevant as it is today, and organisations of all sizes have an important role to play. The Good Green Guide for Small Businesses guides the reader through taking an environmental audit of their business to highlight the areas most in need of attention. It then addresses how to minimise the impact of office essentials, such as utilities, insulation, recycling and waste, electrical equipment, water systems, lighting options, food and drink, and office cleaning arrangements and products. It also covers issues such as incentivising green working and promoting a green company image, and discusses the effect that going green will have on the company's bottom line. This book is packed with practical, realistic, user-friendly advice for business owners or managers who want to change the way they work for the better.

Balancing Green
Balancing Green

Author: Yossi Sheffi

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2018-03-30

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 0262345765

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An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability. The demands and stresses on companies only grow as executives face a multitude of competing business goals. Their stakeholders are interested in corporate profits, jobs, business growth, and environmental sustainability. In this book, business strategy expert Yossi Sheffi offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes—from Coca Cola and Siemens to Dr. Bronner's Magical Soaps and Patagonia—navigate these competing goals. Drawing on extensive interviews with more than 250 executives, Sheffi examines the challenges, solutions, and implications of balancing traditional business goals with sustainability. Sheffi, author of the widely read The Resilient Enterprise, argues that business executives' personal opinions on environmental sustainability are irrelevant. The business merits of environmental sustainability are based on the fact that even the most ardent climate change skeptics in the C-suite face natural resource costs, public relations problems, regulatory burdens, and a green consumer segment. Sheffi presents three basic business rationales for corporate sustainability efforts: cutting costs, reducing risk, and achieving growth. For companies, sustainability is not a simple case of “profits versus planet” but is instead a more subtle issue of (some) people versus (other) people—those looking for jobs and inexpensive goods versus others who seek a pristine environment. This book aims to help companies satisfy these conflicting motivations for both economic growth and environmental sustainability.

The Green Guide For Business
The Green Guide For Business

Author: Chris Goodall

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2010-09-03

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 184765133X

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Everyone wants to go green these days, but for businesses that's easier said than done. How do you measure a company's carbon footprint? Are dryers or hand towels more eco-friendly? Recycled paper or FSC-certified? And what's the greenest company car? The Green Guide for Business answers all these questions and hundreds more, enabling businesses and organisations of all sizes to make eco-savvy decisions. Accessible but authoritative, the book also features scores of case studies to help readers learn from other people's successes and mistakes. From keeping ahead of environment legislation to green marketing, The Green Guide for Business is indispensable for every company with an environmental conscience.

101 Ways to Turn Your Business Green: The Business Guide to Eco-Friendly Profits
101 Ways to Turn Your Business Green: The Business Guide to Eco-Friendly Profits

Author: Rich Mintzer

Publisher: Entrepreneur Press

Published: 2008-09-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781599182636

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You know why. Now, learn how. The reasons why are clear, but the bigger question is-how? From greening your business practices to implementing tangible changes and more, green experts and business owners show you more than 100 ways to quickly and cost-effectively elevate your business from good to green! Enhance your current business practices and incorporate new, eco-friendly solutions that won't break the bank or disrupt your day-to-day operations. Learn planet-saving techniques and tricks specific to your trade, and discover unique ways to turn your positive impact on the planet into increased profits! Use expert advice, examples, step-by-step instructions, real timelines and trouble-shooting tips and solutions Advance your business in the race to go green with industry-specific ideas and innovations Learn how to increase your bottom line and lower your overhead costs by implementing just a few green solutions in your business

Green to Gold
Green to Gold

Author: Daniel C. Esty

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-01-09

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0470393742

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From the Publishers Weekly review: "Two experts from Yale tackle the business wake-up-call du jour-environmental responsibility-from every angle in this thorough, earnest guidebook: pragmatically, passionately, financially and historically. Though "no company the authors know of is on a truly long-term sustainable course," Esty and Winston label the forward-thinking, green-friendly (or at least green-acquainted) companies WaveMakers and set out to assess honestly their path toward environmental responsibility, and its impact on a company's bottom line, customers, suppliers and reputation. Following the evolution of business attitudes toward environmental concerns, Esty and Winston offer a series of fascinating plays by corporations such as Wal-Mart, GE and Chiquita (Banana), the bad guys who made good, and the good guys-watchdogs and industry associations, mostly-working behind the scenes. A vast number of topics huddle beneath the umbrella of threats to the earth, and many get a thorough analysis here: from global warming to electronic waste "take-back" legislation to subsidizing sustainable seafood. For the responsible business leader, this volume provides plenty of (organic) food for thought. "

Varieties of Green Business
Varieties of Green Business

Author: Geoffrey Jones

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018-09-28

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1788114140

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This book provides rich new empirical evidence on green business as it examines its variation between industries and nations, and over time. It demonstrates the deep historical origins of endeavors to create for-profit businesses that were more responsible and sustainable, but also how these strategies have faced constraints, trade-offs and challenges of legitimacy. Based on extensive interviews and archives from around the world, the book asks why green business succeeds more in some contexts than others, and draws lessons from failure as well as success.

Green Computing
Green Computing

Author: Bud E. Smith

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2013-07-08

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1040054897

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Explaining how going green can pay for itself, Green Computing: Tools and Techniques for Saving Energy, Money, and Resources ties the green agenda in IT to the broader corporate agenda in risk management, brand management, and reputation management. Written by a leading author in the IT field, this authoritative reference provides easy access to qu

The Negro Motorist Green Book
The Negro Motorist Green Book

Author: Victor H. Green

Publisher: Colchis Books

Published:

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13:

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The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.

The Green Guide
The Green Guide

Author: Bruno G. Krioussis

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-06-27

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1462010040

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Any business can take steps to be friendlier to the environment, but how do you do it while maintaining and actually boosting profits? Find out how moving from a light green to a dark green approach pays off for hospitality, retail, and home-based businesses. Your business can conserve energy and natural resources, boost goodwill, and actually take steps to restore the environment. Bruno G. Krioussis shares tested strategies from his twenty-nine years of experience in the restaurant and hospitality fields so you can maximize profit through environmental activism. Along with many strategies for success in green business, he explores methods for developing a green action plan; ways to harness alternate forms of energy; strategies for keeping track of all the money you will save; the long-term benefits of sustainability; the importance of finding a mentor. Make a decision to overcome the challenges that are preventing you from being truly green. Its time to embark on a mission to help the environment and your business with The Green Guide.