Green Wisdom: A Guide for Anyone to Start, Engage and Energize a Sustainability Team (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781091582088)

Throughout the business world, Sustainability Teams are helping their companies make more than soaps, servers, and non-stop flights. With every dumpster dive, lunch and learn, community-powered river restoration project, and donated book, they are changing the way business works. If you are wondering what you can do to inspire and lead a team to design regenerative strategies and systemic solutions-while also having a lot of fun-Green Wisdom provides answers relevant to all industries.This book explores how more than ten companies have leveraged the work of their Sustainability Team and integrated the group's initiatives into their operations. They provide leadership to their company's ISO 14001 strategy, B Corp application process, or Global Reporting Initiative programs, building valuable brand awareness and tapping new corners of the market.Sustainability Team leaders share their Green Wisdom-how their teams originated, how they embed their work into the corporate business model, how they re-inspire members when momentum decreases, and the best practices they use to promote team unity. The leaders who compose the teams aren't external consultants or Silicon Valley fixers. They are comprised of warehouse workers and flight attendants, CEOs and salespeople. The diversity of their roles matches the diversity of the problems that face them and the solutions they create. Companies featured include Alaska Airlines, Alter Eco, B Corp, Badger Balm, Better World Books, Dr. Bronner's, Genentech, Interface, New Resource Bank, Nutiva, Mountain Rose Herbs, Salesforce, and Self-Help Credit Union.Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (2010-2016) & Founding Partner, Global Optimism, shares in the foreword: "The corporate Sustainability Teams featured in this book are giving vision to this future, even as they make it our reality. They are ignoring political noise and distractions, choosing to instead exercise the stubborn optimism that is required to disassemble problems and manufacture solutions from the pieces. Fueled by the creativity of diversity, these groups are changing the role of business in an uncertain future. They are doing this because they know it is in the best interest of their business, their stakeholders, and their customers, at the same time as it is in the best interest of our planet. The benefit imperatives stack up and reinforce each other."Green Wisdom: A Guide for Anyone to Start, Engage and Energize a Sustainability Team inspires sustainability leaders to do good, to create valuable and engaging initiatives for employees, and to show the same level of commitment to their company's social and environmental values as they dedicate to making a profit.A portion of the profits for each paperback purchased will be donated to Community Carbon Trees Costa Rica (CCT). CCT plants biodiverse tropical forests to grow our global community and focuses on combating climate change, creating resilient community economics and growing biodiverse habitats. Plant your own tree here: http: //www.communitycarbontrees.org/.

Author: Nikki Pava
ISBN-10: 1091582084
ISBN-13: 9781091582088
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 11/27/2018
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.55d