The Sustainable Business
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The Sustainable Business

A Practitioner's Guide to Achieving Long-Term Profitability and Competitiveness

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The Sustainable Business

A Practitioner's Guide to Achieving Long-Term Profitability and Competitiveness

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This is the 2nd edition of The Sustainable Business (2010), winner of The President's Award for Excellence in a Published Body of Work at Kozminski University, Poland. Recommended for managers, employees, teachers and students, this readable and informative guide explains the importance of waste minimization as a first step toward sustainability. Within its pages, the breadth and depth of long-term profitable business practices are explored with an emphasis on optimizing resources (including labour and markets) and maximizing purchases and investments while eliminating the costs of non-product (waste), unemployment, short-term thinking and environmental degradation. As proof of its potency, The Sustainable Business has already been disseminated to over 1.3 million people around the world and the first edition is available in four different languages. The bottom line: if you're looking to gain insight on the future of business, this is it!

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
9781351276580
Edition
1

Index

3M Corporation
cost saving 11
replacing toxic solvents with alternatives 176
returning suppliersā€™ packaging for reuse 153
supporting and exceeding US clean-up laws 19ā€“20
Traffic Safety Systems Division reducing waste 177
Absenteeism see Employee absenteeism
Accessibility
transparent measurement and information feedback 79
Acetone/water waste solvent
recycling for manufacturing toners 67
Advanced Buildings website 126
AES (Applied Energy Services)
bid to offset carbon emissions 92
Aflac
one of ā€˜100 Best Companies to Work Forā€™ 99
Agricultural producers
as cooperative businesses 56
Air, pressurized
used in place of water 129
Air quality
Chattanoogaā€™s the worst in US 19
Air-conditioning services
leasing 52
Alternative energy projects
questioning funding for 92
Alternative sources of energy
micropower 133
Aluminium
ā€˜downcyclingā€™ 162
recycling from scrap 161ā€“2
Aluminium alloy
Caterpillar recycling 158
Aluminium cans
costs behind making of one 142ā€“3
energy saved by recycling one 143
recycling 162
American Institute of Architects 116
ā€˜Anchor tenantsā€™
in eco-industrial parks 170
Anderson, Ray 13ā€“14, 51, 66
Apple processing and packaging 171ā€“2
Applied Energy Services see AES
Acquisition audits 80
Ashbury Park Press 155
Assembly-line sequence
product flow via the ā€˜6-Sā€™ model 62ā€“3
Audubon International Sustainable
Communities Program 56
Australia
reducing packaging 152
ā€˜Autogenous smeltingā€™ 170
Bain & Company 98
Bamboo
hidden history 93
Band, William 106ā€“7
Bank of Japan
collaborating in program for leasing energy efficien...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Foreword
  8. Author's Note
  9. Introduction: What is Sustainability?
  10. PREPARATION
  11. PROCESSES
  12. PRESERVATION
  13. PEOPLE
  14. PLACE
  15. PRODUCT
  16. PRODUCTION
  17. Epilogue: It's All or Nothing
  18. Endnotes
  19. About the Author
  20. Index