Green Library
101 Ways to Turn Your Business Green
by Rich Mintzer
Discover 101 Practical ways to green your business; Use expert advice, examples, step-by-step instructions, real timelines and trouble-shooting tips and solutions; Explore industry-specific ideas and innovations; and learn how to increase your bottom line and lower overhead costs.
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Ashrae Green Guide
by American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc.
The design, construction, and operation of sustainable buildings
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Best Green Careers - Explore Opportunities in this Rapidly Growing Field
by Jeffery Dinsmore
Best Green Careers provides a detailed look at the green job market, as well as strategies for each step of the job search process.
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Better Green Business
by Eric G Olso, PhD
A handbook for environmentally responsible and profitable business practices. This book brings together practical insights and start-to-finish strategies for moving any enterprise to a higher level of environmental stewardship.
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Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems
by David Pimentel
With shortages of fossil energy, especially oil and natural gas, and heavy biomass energy use occurring in both developed and developing countries, a major focus has developed worldwide on renewable energy systems. These systems include wind power, biomass, photovoltaics, hydropower, solar thermal, thermal ponds and biogas.
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Clean Car Wars
by Yozo Hasegawa
Yozo Hasegawa transports us to the front lines of the auto industry's race to develop zero emission cars that will surely determine its future survival, if not contribute to that of the planet overall.
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Closed-Loop Supply Chains
by Mark E Ferguson and Gilvan C Souza
This book will help companies tap into new revenue streams by finding secondary markets for their products, all while reducing their overall carbon footprint.
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Cradle To Cradle
by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
his book explains how products can be designed from the outset so that, after their useful ives, they will provide nourishment for something new.
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Designing Sustainable Packaging
by Scott Boylston
A complete guide to designing eco-friendly packaging, packed with step-by-step photographic tutorials, clear diagrams, case studies, and interviews with innovative designers and companies, detailing the entire process of developing and producing environmentally-friendly packaging.
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Ecoholic - When You're Addicted to the Planet
by Adria Vasil
This is Canada’s best resource for practical tips and products that help you do your part for the earth. You’ll get the dirt on what not to buy and why, and the dish on great gifts, clothes, home supplies and more.
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Ecoholic Home
by Adria Vasil
This book gives you all the most up-do-date Canadian product and services info you need to eco-fly your private space – all while pocketing planet-friendly cash savings.
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Fundraising for Non-Profit Groups - 5th Edition
by Joyce Young
This book explains how to make up a budget, approach corporation presidents and other possible funders, and raise a lot more money for less effort in a non-profit group.
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Generation Green
by Linda Sivertsen and Tosh Silvertsen
This book lays out the inside scoop on the biggest issues affecting our planet; offers dozens of tips on how to shop, dress, eat and travel the green way; includes interviews with those involved in innovative green causes; and shows that being environmentally conscious can be natural.
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Going Solar - Understanding and Using the Warmth in Sunlight
by Tomm Stanley
Written in easy-to-understand language for everyday people and the scientifically challenged, Going Solar contains a delightful blend of humor, fact and function that continually guides reader back to the purpose of its making.
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Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies
by Eric Corey Freed
Want to build responsibly and help reserve the environment? This freiendly, step-by-step guide introduces you to every facet of green building and remodeling, from sizing up construction sites and selecting materials to working with green professionals, reducing energy and water use, and weighing the pros and cos of popular green building methods.
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Green Business Basics
by Nick Dallas
This book has the answers you need to make sense of green issues outling the bare bones in renewable energies, carbon footprints, climate change. 24 lessons for meeting the challenges of global warming.
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Green Certified Retail Operations Gudie
by U.S. Green Retail Association
A book to help retail businesses become greener through operations
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Green Entrepreneur Handbook
by Eric Koester
The guide to building and growing a Green and Clean Business will assistsentrepreneurs in tackling the wide variety of opportunities to go green. It helps you incorporate clean technology, environmental practices, and green business approaches into your work environment.
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Green Greener Greenest
by Lori Bongiorno
Lori Bongiorno covers every aspect of green living, with chapters discussing: Food and Beverages; Personal Care; Babies and Children; Home Building; Energy and Water Conversation; Furniture and Apparel; Cleaning, Backyard and Garden; Transportation; and Recycling and Garbage.
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Green Intentions
by Brett Wills
Creating a green value stream to compete and win provides businesses with a dynamic and proven approach to going green. This book show you how to systematically employ Green-Stream Mapping to achieve environmental sustainability in a way that improves your organization's bottom line was well as its overall health and sustainability.
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Green Logistics
by edited by Alan McKinnon, Sharon Cullinane, Michael Brown, Anthony Whiteing
Improving the environmental sustainability of logistics and co-ordinate the movement of products through the supply chain in a way that meets customer requirements at minimum cost.
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Green Manufacturing: Case Studies in Leadership and Improvement
by Association for Mannufactuing Excellence
This book has practical, in-depth descriptions of environmental and energy issues; response to reader desire for real-world examples; and focuses on three chapters, protecting the environment, using energy wisely and EPA case studies.
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Green Recovery
by Andrew S. Winston
Green Recovery offers practical advice for companies, encouraging them to rally their people to get creative in solving environmental challenges and to lead the way to a more sustainable and profitable future.
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Green Tech
by Lawrence Webber Michael Wallace
Green Tech presents an array of practical approaches that are almost instant in their impact on the bottom line and on the environment. From better-informed equipment purchases to maintenance, from optimal usage condidtions to innovative recycling and disposal options, this book amounts to an open-and-shut business case for making green the center of your evolving IT strategy.
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Green Your Work
by Kim Carlson
This book shows you how making the right green choices not only can help save the earth but increase profitability as well.
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Greening Your Business
by Daniel Sitarz
Now, for the first time, business owners have a hands-on guide to saving energy, saving materials, and saving money by reducing their businesses' impact on the Earth.
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Greening Your Business Profitably
by Harvard Business Review
Expert advice on sustaining the environment and your company from Harvard Business Review
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Greening Your Office
by Daniel Sitarz
An A-Z guide for offices of all sizes, with tips on everything from reducing energy use and better supply purchases to recycling and reusing materials, plus summaries of a range of renewable energy options, commuting techniques, and more.
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Greening Your Small Business
by Jennifer Kaplan
How To Improve Your Bottom Line, Grow Your Brand, Satisfy Your customers - and Save the Planet. This is the definitive resoure for anyone who wnats their company to be competitive, profitable, and eco-conscious.
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Industrial Evolution - Local Solutions for Low Carbon Future
by Lyle Estill
This book shows how the key to the very survival of our civilization lies in the rational, incremental return of commerce and innovation to the realm of the real-world, human-scaled community.
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It's Easy Being Green
by Crissy Trask
This is a handbook for earth-friendly living. This friendly, informative guide offers advice and tips on: adopting greener buying habits, finding earth-friendly products, shopping for green products online and cultivating a sustainable environment.
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Leading Today's Volunteers
by Flora MacLeod & Sarah hogarth
This book will help you hire a volunteer program manager and set up a program to organize, evaluate, and recognize your volunteers.
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Lean and Green
by Pamela J. Gordon
Pamela Gordon shows how green business practices can actually help organizations to save millions each year. More than a hundred examples from prominent companies show how instituting environmentally sound practices can improve your bottom line.
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Lean Solutions
by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones
Discover how companies and customers can create value and wealth together. As we have walked through a range of industries, we began to see that if truly lean provision can be married to truly lean consumption, life can be better for consumers, more satisfying for employee and profitable for providers.
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Lean Supply Chain Management - A Habndbook For Strategic Procurement
by Jeffrey P Wincel
This book addresses one of my main frustrations with the supply chain business - it treats supplier management as a technical logistics issue.
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Lean Thinking
by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones
Banish waste and create wealth in your corporation. Womack and Jones now bring the story of the continuing advance of lean thinking up-to-date, and also share a range of new tools aimed at the successful application of lean thinking.
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Living Green
by Greg Horn
This is a practical guide to simple sustainability. Based on a lifetime of research and practice, this practical guide for living green offers advice and solutions you can easily put into practice.
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Management by Process - A Roadmap to Sustainable Business Process Management
by John Jeston and Johan Nelis
This book describes the management of an organization from a business process prespective. The book examines the execution and management of the end-to-end business processes and all the aspects that are needed to support them.
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Nonprofit Guide to Going Green
by Ted Hart, Adrienne D. Capps, Matthew Bauer
This book is your comprehensive practical learning tool to guiding your nonprofit - in every aspect - towards becoming greener.
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Recycling Construction & Demolition Waste
by Greg Winkler
This book provides the strategies and tools you need to develop and implement a successful jobsite waste management plan. This practical resource also covers other programs that promote sustainable construction.
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Ripples from the Zambezi
by Ernesto Sirolli
This book leads the reader through the fascinating story of development failures and success that led eventually to this technique that has been successful in over 250 communities in four countries. This is an inspiring and easy to read book.
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Shades of Green
by Julie A. Vincent & Robert E. Dittmer
Shades of Green is a practical guidebook that allows you to become green – at a pace and in a way that fits your lifestyle and individual starting point.
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Small is Possible
by Lyle Estill
Life in a local economy - How a town can feed, fuel, power and sustain itself...outide of the global economy.
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Small Town Rules - How Big Brands and Small Businesses Can Prosper in a Connected Economy
by Barry J Moltz & Becky McCray
This book reveals what small town businesses that have survived learned. How to compete and win on a human scale with limited resources - no matter how huge, urban, or global you are.
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Smart Power
by William H. Kemp
Smart Power will help you develop a new relationship with energy that will save money and the environment. It will provide you with keys to an economic relationship with home energy.
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Strategies For The Green Economy
by Joel Makower with exclusive market research by Cara Pike
pportunities and chanllenges in the new world of business
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Street Smart Sustainability
by David Mager and Joe Sibilia
You already know why your company should go green. This comprehensive guide tells you how to do it profitably. It details every step of the process - from getting emloyee buy-in and conducting a current sustainability audit to developing a plan of action and measuring progress.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide To Green Living
by Trish Riley
Do your part! Rely on the simple, sustainable suggestions, this book is your guide to Green Living – and you’ll find new ways to make a world of difference
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The Complete Lean Enterprise
by Beau Keyte & Drew Locher
This is a smart, clear guide to unleashing the power of value stream mapping and lean thinking in office environments. These value streams directly support the daily production needs of an enterprise.
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The Digital Handshake
by Paul Chaney
A tactical and practical guide for non-technical business leaders who want to leverage the new media tools like social networks to positively affect their bottom line.
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The Ecology of Commerce
by Paul Hawken
This book will challenge you to reexamine everything you believe about business as it is currently practiced, how we create meaning in our lives and the fabric of the legacy we are weaving for our children. This is essential reading for those who care about our planet.
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The Green Business Guide
by Glenn Bachman
This book is a comprehensive resource designed to help organizations incorporate green practices into their operations.
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The Green Scorecard
by Patricia Pulliam Phillips and Jack J Phillips
Business leaders-from CEOs and CFOs to project managers and engineers - receive a reliable measurement and evaluation system that delivers credible data for decision makers. This valuable book, based on the ROI Institue's internationally renowed methodology, gives you clear steps for determining the overall worth of green projects - for both the environment and the bottom line.
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The Green To Gold Business Playbook
by Daniel C Esty and P.J. Simmons
This book tells how to put sustainability considerations into practice for competitive advantage. This book spells out how to achieve an Eco-advantage. This concrete guide shows the way to sustainability for companies of any size in any industry.
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The Lean Office: Collected Practices and Cases
by Productivity Press
This book is a compilation of articles previously published in Lean Manufacturing Advisor. These articles discuss lean implementations in non-manufacturing operations, from design to processing invoices to customer service.
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The Lean Startup - How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
by Eric Ries
The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
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The Machine that Changed the World
by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones and Daniel Roos
This book contrasts two fundamentally different business systems – lean versus mass, two very different ways of thinking about how humans work together to create value. This book describes the entire managerial system of lean production.
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The New Rules of Green Marketing
by Jacquelyn A Ottman
In the New Rules of Green marketing your are provided a template for infusing bold, cerative thinking and implementing practical strategies that underscore inherent product value to successfully integrate sustainability into consumer brands.
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The New Sustainability Advantage
by Bob Willard
This book shows that Shrewd Businesses that incorporate sustainability strategies are well-positioned to financially outperform their competitiors in the 21st century.
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The Next Sustainability Wave - Building Boardroom Buy-In
by Bob Willard
This book analyses why companies have resisted sustainability strategies and focuses on strategies for persuading corporate leaders to go further.
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The Power of Sustainable Thinking
by Bob Doppelt
This book shows you how to create a positive future for the climate, the planet, your organization and your life.
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The Renewable Energy Handbook
by William H. Kemp
This handbook will show you how to stretch your energy dollars while powering your home with clean, dependable, renewable energy. And, unlike fossil fuels or nuclear energy, renewable energy frees you from worry about dumping today’s pollution on tomorrow’s children.
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The Ripple Effect
by Steve Harper
In this book, Steve Harper shares insights for building a purposeful life by creating a culture of selflessness at work and home.
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The Sustainability Advantage
by Bob Willard
Bob Willard shows us in rich detail – with case examples, financial spreadsheets, and practical applications – that sustainability is not only the ethical thing to do, it’s the economic thing to do.
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The Truth About Green Business
by Gil Friend
Everything you need to know to green your business and grow your profit. The truth about what climate change means for your business. The truth about running lean and green. The truth about proofing your business.
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Value Stream Management for the Lean Office
by Don Tapping and Tom Shuker
Eliminating costly waste from office functions is a great way to increase your profit margin and a vital part of creating a total lean enterprise. Follow eight steps to planning, mapping and sustaining lean improvement in administrative areas.
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Wind Energy - The Facts
by The European Wind Energy Association
Wind power is a cost-effective route to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and improving our energy independence. This book includes six sections discussing technology; grid integration; economics of wind; industry and markets; environmental impacts; scenarios and targets.
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