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“michael r boswell”

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  • Climate Action Planning

    A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities

    by Michael R. Boswell, Adrienne I. Greve, Tammy L. Seale ...
    Climate change continues to impact our health and safety, the economy, and natural systems. With climate-related protections and programs under attack at the federal level, it is critical for cities to address climate impacts locally. Every day there are new examples of cities approaching the challenge of climate change in creative and innovative ways—from rethinking transportation, to greening ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Local Climate Action Planning

    by Michael R. Boswell, Adrienne I. Greve, Tammy L. Seale ...
    Climate change is a global problem, but the problem begins locally. Cities consume 75% of the world's energy and emit 80% of the world's greenhouse gases. Changing the way we build and operate our cities can have major effects on greenhouse gas emissions. Fortunately, communities across the U.S. are responding to the climate change problem by making plans that assess their contribution to ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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  • The Necessary Revolution

    How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World

    by Peter M. Senge, Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz, Joe Laur, Sara Schley ...
    Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where “regenerative” commercial buildings – ones that create more energy than they use – are being designed. A world in which environmentally sound products and processes would be more cost-effective than wasteful ones. A world in which ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Changing the Game

    Sustainable Market Transformation Strategies to Understand and Tackle the Big and Complex Sustainability Challenges of Our Generation

    by Lucas Simons, Andre Nijhof ...
    We are at the beginning of the sustainability era. The biggest challenge of our generation is to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. For this we must be willing to understand and change the root causes that create these challenges in the first place. The system itself needs to change. But how to do that?This ground-breaking book Changing the Game reveals the missing insights and strategies to ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • The Sustainable MBA

    A Business Guide to Sustainability

    by Giselle Weybrecht ...
    Whether you are an employee, a manager, an entrepreneur or a CEO, The Sustainable MBA Second Edition provides the knowledge and tools to help you ‘green’ your job and organization, to turn sustainability talk into action for the benefit of your bottom line and society as a whole.Based on more than 150 interviews with experts in business, international organizations, NGOs and universities from ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist

    How the Hard-Driving CEO of a Carpet Company You Never Heard of Doubled Earnings, Won New Customers, Inspired Employees, and Created Innovation...

    by Ray Anderson ...
    “America’s greenest CEO” and the hero from the award-winning documentary The Corporation makes the urgent, compelling case that sustainable business pays.His story is now legend. In 1994, after reading The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, Ray Anderson felt a “spear in the chest”: the founder of Interface, Inc., a billion-dollar carpeting manufacturer, realized that his company was plundering ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Harvard Business Review on Greening Your Business Profitably

    by Harvard Business Review ...
    Protect the earth and your bottom line.If you need the best practices and ideas for turning sustainability into competitive advantage--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.This collection of HBR articles will help you:- Craft strategy to compete on green turf- Redesign your business model, products, and processes ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eco2 Cities: Ecological Cities As Economic Cities

    by Suzuki Hiroaki; Dastur Arish; Moffatt Sebastian; Yabuki Nanae; Maruyama Hinako ...
    The Eco2 Cities approach is a point of departure for cities that would like to reap the many benefits of ecological and economic sustainability. It provides an analytical and operational framework that offers strategic guidance to cities on sustainable and integrated urban development. At the same time case studies are used throughout the book to provide a matter-of-fact and ground-level ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A Good Disruption

    Redefining Growth in the Twenty-First Century

    by Martin Stuchtey, Per-Anders Enkvist, Klaus Zumwinkel ...
    A Good Disruption describes how disruptive technology can be used to combat the economic challenges of our age and sets out an inspirational vision of a more effective and sustainable growth model.Disruptive technology is one of the defining economic trends of our age, transforming one major industry after another. But what is the true impact of such disruption on the world's economies, and does ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Balancing Green

    When to Embrace Sustainability in a Business (and When Not To)

    by Yossi Sheffi, Edgar Blanco ...
    An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability.The demands and stresses on companies only grow as executives face a multitude of competing business goals. Their stakeholders are interested in corporate profits, jobs, business growth, and environmental sustainability. In this ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

    Technology, Incentives, Behavior

    Edited by Fereidoon Sioshansi ...
    The complexity of carbon reduction and economic sustainability is significantly complicated by competing aspects of socioeconomic practices as well as legislative, regulatory, and scientific requirements and protocols. An easy to read and understand guide, Sioshansi, along with an international group of contributors, moves through the maze of carbon reduction methods and technologies, providing ... Read more

    $88.79 CAD

  • Climate Change and Disaster Management

    by Ross Prizzia ...
    This book makes the case that many climate related scientists have provided data that confirm that burning fossil fuels has increased greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, which has had a major impact on climate change. Each of the six chapters provides many references and questions for review.The first chapter emphasizes worldwide awareness of the relationship between climate change and disasters ... Read more

    $13.16 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus