Green Business Practices For Dummies

Green Business Practices For Dummies

Lisa Swallow

Language: English

Pages: 384

ISBN: 0470393394

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Green Business Practices For Dummies provides readers with the information they need to reduce the environmental impact of the business with out reducing their bottom line. The practical and expert advice and tips presented in this title benefits business owners at all levels, from large corporations to small, family-run stores.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you prioritize your initiatives based on complexity and urgency, the projects that make their way to the top of the to-do list are those that are easiest to implement and address a critical need. If you’re trying to prioritize the remaining initiatives in the future, I suggest being patient and seeing how implementation of the first set of projects goes because follow-up or phasedin projects from your to-do list may naturally follow. For example, if you determine that conducting a carbon

employees. Involve your workforce in the company’s waste-reduction efforts to give them ownership of the program. ✓ Ask employees to sign a waste-reduction pledge. Research shows that when a person signs his or her name to something, that individual has a higher propensity to carry through with the action. Conducting a waste assessment Getting a grasp on where to look for areas where you can cut back your waste is simpler than you may think. Start by compiling a list of all the different places

you need changes all the rules of the game. Suddenly, these companies are intimately vested in producing high-quality, durable products that efficiently provide the services they’re intended to. Additionally, companies become interested in their products’ end-of-life liability issues, disposal costs, recyclability, and so on. Just look at what one company was able to do. Ray Anderson, president of the international flooring systems company Interface, Inc., was a visionary in reconfiguring the

heat stored beneath the Earth’s surface, and flowing and/or hot water. These natural energy sources can be converted into mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy. Unlike fossil fuels, which emit carbon dioxide into the air and contribute to everything from biodiversity loss to coral bleaching to climate change (see Chapter 2 for more details), renewables are clean and don’t emit greenhouse gases. So which one is best to use? The future of energy conservation: Demand-response technology

to green speed. Chapter 9: Greening Your Accounting Practices • Focusing on relocalization, which is a fancy way of saying looking to your local vendors and distributors for products and services. The financial institution supports relocalization by creating new, locally owned, independent businesses in your community to keep profits circulating in your area. (Because relocalization is the cornerstone of many sustainable business practices, I’ve devoted a whole chapter to it; see Chapter 11 for

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