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Books cover all aspects of sustainable business, corporate leadership, and environmental business opportunity. Specific topics covered include sustainability as a competitive strategy, green strategic planning, opportunities in new technology, leading change, performance measurement, corporate social and environmental responsibility reporting, the triple bottom line, engaging stakeholders, employees, and managers, green product design, green marketing, greening supply chains, green purchasing and printing, and green property management.

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Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage. By Andrew Winston and Daniel Esty. A book for executives at every level, and in all kinds of businesses, who see the Green Wave coming and want to know how they can be good stewards of the Earth while simultaneously building the bottom line. It provides clear how-to advice and concrete examples from major companies that are achieving both environmental and business success. More... | Andrew Winston EcoSpeakers Info >>

Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good. By Chris Laszlo. Illustrates how the competitive strategies of some of the world's largest businesses are changing as their leaders take on important social, environmental, and economic challenges. Outlines how and why these challenges are becoming huge business opportunities. Designed to provide managers with the means to build sustainable value and compete effectively in the twenty-first century. More… | Chris Laszlo EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Truth About Green Business. By Gil Friend. Describes how green practices are quickly becoming the norm for large and small businesses alike, and explains what you need to know to green your business and grow your profit. Topics discussed include climate change and what it means for your business, the facts on running lean and green, and future proofing your business. Includes over fifty green strategies, as well as bite-sized, easy-to-use techniques. More... | Gil Friend EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Power of Sustainable Thinking: How to Create a Positive Future for the Climate, the Planet, Your Organization and Your Life. By Bob Doppelt. Provides both an easy to understand explanation and practical methods for transforming our climate-damaging, unsustainable ways into sustainable thinking and behaviors. Explains how the mind works and how people change, then provides methods for transforming thinking and behavior, first with the reader's own cognitive patterns, then how individuals can motivate other people to change, and finally to how teams and organizations can be motivated to change. More… | Bob Doppelt EcoSpeakers Info >>

True to Our Roots: Fermenting a Business Revolution. By Paul Dolan and Thom Elkjer. Describes the management principles that enabled Fetzer Vineyards to become one of America's biggest and best-known wineries and a model for sustainable business practices. Contains personal anecdotes and practical wisdom, and offers inspiration and guidance to business managers who see the compelling need to build and grow healthy, sustainable organizations. More... | Paul Dolan EcoSpeakers Info >>

What We Learned in the Rainforest: Business Principles For The New Economy. By Bill Shireman & Tachi Kiuchi. Presents a surprising new business principle: By applying strategies and practices gleaned from nature, by emulating what it once sought to conquer, big business can attain greater and more sustainable profits. With clear, direct language and dozens of real-world examples, the authors show how a company can become, like nature, a complex living system that doesn't merely balance competing interests but truly integrates them. More... | Bill Shireman EcoSpeakers Info >> | Tachi Kiuchi EcoSpeakers Info >>

Dancing With the Tiger - Learning Sustainability Step by Natural Step. By Brian Nattrass and Mary Altomare. For corporations, communities and other organizations, the choreography of the dance toward sustainability has been systematized by The Natural Step: a framework that provides the science, analysis, methodologies and tools to use in the quest for sustainability. This book presents the stories of individuals, teams and organizations learning about change and sustainability, and then acting on that learning. Case studies include some of the most successful companies and communities in North America. More... | Brian Nattrass EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Business Guide to Sustainability. By Darcy Hitchcock and Marsha Willard. A no-nonsense guide on how to "green" your office or business. This easy-to-use manual has been written by top business consultants specifically to help managers, business owners, organizational leaders, and aspiring environmental managers and sustainability co-ordinators. It demystifies sustainability, untangles the plethora of sustainability frameworks, tools and practices, and makes it easy for the average person in any organization to move toward sustainability. More... | Darcy Hitchcock EcoSpeakers Info >>

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Conscious Endeavors: Business, Society and the Journey to Sustainability. By Robert M. Abbott. This collection of essays and speeches blends business advice, autobiographical reflection, and poetic meditation to explain why companies have a responsibility to protect the environment. Drawing on examples from economics, environmental studies, history, and popular culture, the discussions show that humans like to elevate themselves and do good for others—ideals that transcend the importance of profit and loss. More... | Robert M. Abbott EcoSpeakers Info >>

Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Your Cause. By Nancy Lee and Philip Kotler. Explains why social responsibility is good for business. Shows business leaders how to choose social causes, design initiatives, gain employee support, and evaluate their efforts. Provides best practices and ideas to do the most good. With stories from the leaders of socially responsible companies, this is a guide for today's good corporate citizen. More... | Nancy Lee EcoSpeakers Info >>

Counting What Counts: Turning Corporate Accountability to Competitive Advantage. By Bill Birchard and Marc J. Epstein. Describes how companies are moving beyond a profits only orientation and are now often "counting" other measures of value, such as how the company is viewed by a variety of stakeholders. More… | Bill Birchard EcoSpeakers Info >>

Crisis & Renewal: Meeting the Challenge of Organizational Change. By David K. Hurst. Through a process of renewal following a crisis, organizations successfully adapt to the ever-changing environment. Hurst lays out a revitalization plan for managers coping with bureaucratic stagnation. More... | David K. Hurst EcoSpeakers Info >>

Developing Green: Strategies for Success. By Jerry Yudelson. Green building and development is a major industry trend. This book helps in understanding how to build a business case and take advantage of tenants' and owners' interest in green development. It includes insider tips to approaching the LEED rating system strategically. More... | Jerry Yudelson EcoSpeakers Info >>

Ecopreneuring: Putting Purpose and the Planet Before Profits. By John Ivanko & Lisa Kivirist. Shows how we can earn our daily bread on a local or regional level while saving money, strengthening the economy, and helping restore the planet to ecological health and social stability. Part small business manifesto, part personal finance primer, Ecopreneuring is essential reading for small business owners, prospective entrepreneurs, and anyone who dreams of a livelihood based on independence, creativity, passion, and a commitment to green practices and sustainability. More… | John Ivanko EcoSpeakers | Lisa Kivirist EcoSpeakers Info >>

Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers. By Amy Stewart. Takes us inside the world of hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists around the world who have worked to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers that are bigger, brighter, and sturdier than anything nature could provide. What has been gained and what has been lost in tinkering with Mother Nature? Should we care that some roses have lost their scent? Or that most flowers are sprayed with pesticides? More… | Amy Stewart EcoSpeakers Info >>

Global Inc.: An Atlas of the Multinational Corporation. By Medard Gabel and Henry Bruner. A visual exploration of the history, geography, scale, impacts and governance of the multinational corporation. More than 400 maps, charts and graphs help illustrate the complexities of the "most powerful engine yet developed by humanity for producing wealth." The Ford Foundation funded the 3-year project that put the book together. More... | Medard Gabel EcoSpeakers Info >>

Green Marketing: Opportunity for Innovation. By Jacquelyn Ottman. A good introductory text. It provides a clear understanding of the multitude of interconnected issues involved in green marketing. It will help you become better organized, recognize your company's strengths and weaknesses, and work toward changes that improve your company's environmental performance. More... | Jacquelyn Ottman EcoSpeakers Info >>

Green Recovery: Get Lean, Get Smart, and Emerge from the Downturn on Top. By Andrew Winston. Shows how companies don't need to sideline their green business initiatives when the economy turns rough, and argues that no company can afford to wait for the downturn to ease before going green. The book provides a road map for using green initiatives to deliver short-term gains and position your company for long-term strategic growth. It helps you establish your competitive positioning in difficult times so you can emerge even stronger into a vastly changed economy. More... | Andrew Winston EcoSpeakers Info >>

In Earth’s Company. By Carl Frankel. People are looking increasingly to business to take its share of responsibility for the state of the Earth. Frankel gathers the elements required into a single, comprehensive volume. More... | Carl Frankel EcoSpeakers Info >>

Leading Change Toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society. By Bob Doppelt. Doppelt describes the process required to move organizations toward sustainability. This book demystifies the sustainability-change process by providing a framework and methodology that managers can use to transform their organizations. More... | Bob Doppelt EcoSpeakers Info >>

Lean and Green: Profit for Your Workplace and the Environment. By Pamela Gordon. This book dispels the myth that a business or organization has to choose between making a profit and protecting the environment. Appealing to employees at every level, it provides over 100 examples of environmental practices that bring savings or new sources of revenue. More... | Pamela Gordon EcoSpeakers Info >>

Learning from the Links: Mastering Management Using Lessons from Golf. By David K. Hurst. With a true disciple's grasp of the physical and mental intricacies involved in playing any round, and an experienced consultant's eye toward the physical and mental intricacies involved in leading any corporation, Hurst offers a unique look at the "complex systems" in both activities and the consequences of adapting knowledge from one to improve performance in the other. More... | David K. Hurst EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology & the Evolutionary Corporation. By Brian Nattrass and Mary Altomare. Explains the background and framework of the Natural Step. Gives practical examples of major corporations who embrace sustainability and are rewarded for their efforts. Case examples of IKEA, Collins Pine, and Interface provide references for managers and consultants working to build more sustainable organizations. More... | Brian Nattrass EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Sustainable Company: How To Create Lasting Value Through Social And Environmental Performance. By Chris Laszlo. About companies whose policies have enhanced their bottom line by way of reduced waste and cleanup costs, fewer regulatory conflicts, new business opportunities and greater appeal to socially conscious investors and green consumers. More... | Chris Laszlo EcoSpeakers Info >>

Uncommon Cents: Thoreau and the Nature of Business. By Rob Abbott. Henry David Thoreau is revered for his contributions to the American environmental movement, but his influence on business is less well known. The central argument of Uncommon Cents is that Thoreau was a uniquely synthetic thinker whose ideas about the nature of business are useful, perhaps even vital, for contemporary students and business leaders. More… | Rob Abbott EcoSpeakers Info >>

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