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Green Your Work: Boost Your Bottom Line While Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

December 19, 2009 By investing 3 Comments

Today, many companies are flourishing by delivering high-quality products while pursuing policies that leave the world a cleaner, better place. Those policies can help retain customers, energize employees, and serve as brand-building tools. This book shows managers practical steps to make their companies environmentally responsible while staying profitable and efficient. Environmentalist and businesswoman Kim Carlson shows managers how to green company operations by moving to a …
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The Green Building Bottom Line

November 28, 2009 By investing 1 Comment

What are the real costs and real benefits of building green? As any builder knows, cost estimation and reality are often two very different things. The Green Building Bottom Line makes the case for green building by providing the insights and data that demonstrate the true costs and benefits of building green. It’s a “why to” and a “how to” that explores everything from the ground up. The Green Building Bottom Line puts an entire development team at the ta…
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The Triple Bottom Line: How Today’s Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success — and How You Can Too

October 15, 2009 By investing 3 Comments

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Andrew Savitz recalls a conversation he had with a purchasing manager at a large telecommunications company. The man was adamant that social responsibility had nothing to do with his job, which was to buy products at the lowest price. “Would you buy from a foreign supplier that you knew was employing 10-year-old girls and paying them 60 cents a day for their labour?” Savitz asked. “Of course I wouldn’t do that,” came the reply. “Not even if the supplie…
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