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| Strategies for the Green Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in the New World of Business |
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 Joel Makower
In Strategies for the New Green Economy, Joel Makower, one of the world's foremost green business experts, provides a clear roadmap for this challenging terrain. Makower offers insights and inspiration gleaned from his 20 years' experience helping Fortune 500 companies and start-ups alike formulate strategies that align environmental and business goals. Providing a comprehensive and realistic look at both the opportunities and challenges, Strategies for the New Green Economy shows how leadership companies are finding their way in the green economy, while their competitors struggle.
Strategies for the Green Economy systematically tackles the central issues of greening your business:
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What does it take to be seen as an environmental leader? |
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What are the standards, implicit or explicit, that you must meet to be green? |
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How do you communicate what your business is doing right--and what it's doing wrong? |
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How can you overcome consumer, media, and activist distrust? |
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How can your company be heard amid the Ã?Â?green noiseÃ?Â? in the marketplace? |
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What are the new opportunities emerging for companies in the green economy? | |
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| Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots |
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 Kevin Danaher
After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats. New business models that save or restore natural resources are critical. But how can we translate that insight into more sustainable practices? Building the Green Economy shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories???over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies, and unexamined routines???dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green economy movement.
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Lay out strategies for a more successful green movement |
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Describe how communities have protected their victories from legal and political challenges |
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 Harper Bibles
The Green Bible will equip and encourage you to see God's vision for creation and help you engage in the work of healing and sustaining it. This first Bible of its kind includes inspirational essays from key leaders such as N. T. Wright, Barbara Brown Taylor, Brian McLaren, Matthew Sleeth, Pope John Paul II, and Wendell Berry. As you read the scriptures anew, The Green Bible will help you see that caring for the earth is not only a calling, but a lifestyle.
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| The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems |
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 Van Jones
Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the countryÂ?the failing economy and our devastated environment. From a distance, it appears that these two problems are separate, but when we look closer, the connection becomes unmistakable.
In The Green Collar Economy, acclaimed activist and political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and saves the environment. The economy is built on and powered almost exclusively by oil, natural gas, and coalÂ?all fast-diminishing nonrenewable resources. As supplies disappear, the price of energy climbs and nearly everything becomes more expensive. With costs and unemployment soaring, the economy stalls. Not only that, when we burn these fuels, the greenhouse gases they create overheat the atmosphere. As the headlines make clear, total climate chaos looms over us. The bottom line: we cannot continue with business as usual. We cannot drill and burn our way out of these dual dilemmas.
Instead, Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy prices and generating enough work to pull the U.S. economy out of its present death spiral.
Rachel Carson's 1963 landmark book Silent Spring was the pivotal ecological examination of the last century. Now, rising above the impenetrable debate over the environment and the economy, Van Jones's The Green Collar Economy delivers a timely and essential call to action for this new century.
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| Siobhan Live Green Team Award |
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 Kathy Hoopmann
Australian author Kathy Hoopmann, who lives in Dubai, and Donna Acheson-Juillet, a Canadian artist, have produced a childrenÂ?s picture book, OmarÂ?s Goats, written to encourage environmental awareness in children. Omar is a goat herder who is so tired of the pollution he sees daily that he gets the local wildlife to help him clean it up. The illustrations visually emphasize the seriousness of the problem faced in the desert today. As the story unfolds, and the rubbish is slowly cleared away, children delight as the true untarnished beauty of the land is revealed. OmarÂ?s Goats has recently been released in English and in Arabic by Jerboa Books here in Dubai.
To complement the message in OmarÂ?s Goats, Kathy and Donna have also written a teacherÂ?s handbook which gives factual information about environmental issues and includes classroom activity suggestions, a section encouraging parents to get involved, plus photocopiable activity sheets for the students. This too is available in English and Arabic.
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| Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: An Easy Household Guide |
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 Nicky Scott
The Chelsea Green Guides Â? A new series of pocket-sized books to help save the earth!
Do you know what to do with your old cell phone? Where you can responsibly dispose of old medicines? What happens to the stuff you recycle? This easy-to-use guide has answers to all your recycling questions. Its A-Z listing of everyday household items shows you how to recycle most of your unwanted things, do your bit for the planet, and maybe make a little money at the same time. With a comprehensive resources section and information on how to get more involved, this is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to stop the Earth from going to waste. Also available:
WATER: USE LESSÂ?SAVE MORE
ENERGY: USE LESSÂ?SAVE MORE
COMPOSTING: AN EASY HOUSEHOLD GUIDE |
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