Greening Your Business: The Hands-On Guide to Creating a Successful and Sustainable Business

Citing the examples of large corporations that are leading the transition to environmentally friendly practices, a guide for small and medium-sized businesses makes step-by-step recommendations for reducing a company's impact on the earth, in a reference that includes a CD of worksheets for implementing specific plans. Original.

"Greening Your Business" is just what the doctor ordered: A smart and sensible, hands-on guide any company can use to align environmental responsibility with business success. Finally, in one place, is the full menu of possibilities, from small steps to large ones, clearly spelled out, combining checklists with concise and compelling context. It's destined to become a bible for any company seeking to stay competitive in the growing green economy. -- Joel Makower, Executive Editor, GreenBiz.com, and author, "Strategies for the Green Economy"

"Here in one handy guide, are all of the things you never needed to worry about when energy was cheap. But now this book represents huge savings that will go straight to your bottom line, and help the planet a little in the process. Comprehensive and useful!" -- Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy and The End of Nature

"With charts, worksheets, and other practical tools and advice, Dan Sitarz's */Greening Your Business: A Hands-On Guide to Creating a Successful and Sustainable Business/* offers a step-by-step game plan for bringing environmental sensitivity into business strategy, especially for the small business person. With material covering the full spectrum of issues from energy to water to waste, Sitarsz gives practical advice on how to respond to the green wave that is sweeping across society." -- Daniel Esty, Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale Law School, and co-author of /Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Stategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage