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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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What should I wear? It's one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something new. Today, the clothing industry churns out 80 billion garments a year and employs every sixth person on Earth. Historically, the apparel trade has exploited labor, the environment, and intellectual property-and in the last three decades, with the simultaneous unfurling of fast fashion, globalization, and the tech...
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A practical, bipartisan call to action from the wold's leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability. Sustainability has emerged as a global priority over the past several years. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the adoption of the seventeen Sustainable Develpment Goals through the United Nations have highlighted the need to address critical challenges such as the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, water shortages,...
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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This is a book about circular economy (CE) and the fourth industrial revolution (IND 4.0), about their interlinkage and the way their interaction will determine the future of our planet, as the authors of this book assert. Despite the many on-going discussions on both the circular economy and IND 4.0, rarely is it recognized that they are deeply interconnected, and in real life they cannot be discussed separately, and should not be considered to...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio / Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"With an empowering call to action, The Waste-Free World boldly invites us to end one of the greatest scams in history in order to achieve a bright, sustainable, and prosperous future. As microplastics collect in the ocean by the ton, natural resources are depleted, and cities face mounting landfill disposal bills, consumers and investors are becoming increasingly focused on the quality, durability and environmental footprint of products--yet many...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Economics has become the principal way we define ourselves in the modern era. We are all taught to think like an economist, with total faith in the power of the individual, the purity of the free market, and our boundless future. The problem is that economics is a fairy tale-one that perpetuates vast inequality and environmental devastation. The Progress Illusion charts the rise of the economic worldview and its infiltration into our daily lives...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For decades, sustainability books have pointed a path to more efficient, effective ways to save resources and money, but they just don't seem to be moving the needle. The problem is the sustainably minded haven't convinced skeptics that powerful economic incentives really exist. Using a unique, practical scorecard understandable to any executive in or outside of operations, this book, once and for all, makes the pragmatic argument for sustainable...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"CEOs are now expected to deliver results that both increase the bottom line and drives value for all stakeholders, not just shareholders. But they aren't equipped with the understandings necessary to remake their organization and business model for sustainable business goals. Sustainable Leadership provides that education. It's the toolkit for leaders in the age of stakeholder capitalism, who are tasked with producing extraordinary profits while...
50) The innovation delusion: how our obsession with the new has disrupted the work that matters most
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English
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"For forty years, innovation has been the hottest buzzword in business. But what if the benefits of innovation have been exaggerated, and our obsession with the new has distracted us from the work that matters most? It's hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it's a new technology or a new toothbrush. But in this manifesto on the state of American work, historians of technology Lee Vinsel...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks... Fascinated by issues of aging and mortality, West applied the rigor of a physicist to the biological question of why we live as long as we do and no longer. The result was astonishing, and changed science, creating a new understanding of energy use and metabolism: West found that despite the riotous diversity in the sizes...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Get familiar with business sustainability in Asia Business Sustainability in Asia offers 12 chapters that cover different aspects of business sustainability with a keen focus on its implications in Asia. Anyone who is involved with business sustainability and corporate governance, the financial reporting process, investment decisions, legal and financial advising, assurance functions, and corporate governance education will be interested in this book....
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
How did Coca-Cola build a global empire by selling a low-price concoction of mostly sugar, water, and caffeine? The easy answer is advertising, but the real formula to Coke's success was its strategy, from the start, to offload costs and risks onto suppliers, franchisees, and the government. For most of its history the company owned no bottling plants, water sources, cane- or cornfields. A lean operation, it benefited from public goods like cheap...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A new model for urban development is emerging in cities to aggressively tackle the realities of climate change. It transforms the way cities design and use physical space, generate economic wealth, consume and dispose of resources, exploit and sustain the natural ecosystems, and prepare for the future. In Life after carbon, urban sustainability consultants Pete Plastrik and John Cleveland assemble this global pattern of urban reinvention from the...
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This important book examines ways to reduce the negative impact of economic and urban growth on people and the environment-one of the United Nation's sustainable development goals. From reducing energy use to helping communities become safe and inclusive for all people, readers will gain an understanding of how all the UN goals work together, and learn concrete strategies to inspire change. Profiles of youth-led movements and other collaborative...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A new vision for America's future is quickly gaining momentum. Facing a global emergency, a younger generation is spearheading a national conversation around a Green New Deal and setting the agenda for a bold political movement with the potential to revolutionize society. Millennials, the largest voting bloc in the country, are now leading on the issue of climate change. While the Green New Deal has become a lightning rod in the political sphere,...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The age of climate gradualism is over, as unprecedented disasters are exacerbated by inequalities of race and class. We need profound, radical change. A Green New Deal can tackle the climate emergency and rampant inequality at the same time. Cutting carbon emissions while winning immediate gains for the many is the only way to build a movement strong enough to defeat big oil, big business, and the super-rich--starting right now. A Planet to Win explores...
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