Green Projects:
Green Projects:
Balancing People, Planet, and Profit
Make a bigger difference helping people live a greener life.
Do you think it is possible?
How would you like to have some easy, step-by-step directions for checking how eco-friendly your organization is, where you would like it to be, and how to get there?
Wouldn’t it be helpful to have a good explanation of how to encourage eco-friendly behaviors, facility upgrades, and process improvements that will propel you towards your goal of having a totally sustainable organization?
Don’t you wish you had a handy list of projects that would improve all aspects of the Triple Bottom Line: People, Planet, and Profit?
The purpose of this book is to give you answers to all these questions.
If you want to make a bigger difference helping people live a greener life, this is definitely the book for you.
This book is different from other books on this topic. It is a combination of how-to-do and what-to-do … how to do a analysis of the current state of your organization, how to improve, and what no-cost, low-cost, and innovative projects will help your organization improve its triple bottom line.
This book will give you some very practical tools to help you evaluate where you are, where you want to be, and how to get there.
- Chapter One covers the step-by-step process for doing a gap analysis of your organization.
- Chapter Two covers three approaches to change: behavioral, facility, and process improvements.
- Chapter Three gives you a wide assortment of no-cost projects to reduce your people’s adverse impact on the environment and each other.
- Chapter Four provides a good list of low-cost products and services, many of which pay for themselves.
- Chapter Five identifies some innovative projects that will inspire you to take bold steps to reach your goals.
- Chapter Six shows you some methods for tracking your progress and take the next steps to being a a sustainable organization.
- Don’t miss out on the Bonus Materials! These include sample check sheets and Excel worksheets for many of the activities.
This is the second in a series, Green Team Essentials. Be on the lookout for Book 1: How to Start a Green Team: Six Weeks to Positive Change and future books in the series.
A little on my background and reasons for writing this book. I have been a sustainability management professor for about a dozen years, but came to this profession in a circuitous way. I was in the Air Force for 20 years, have a Master’s degree in Organizational Behavior Management, and became a Master Quality Instructor in the Air Force (i.e., teaching Total Quality Management, which is similar to sustainability management in many ways). The Dean of the College of Business gave me the chance to help launch the new Sustainability Management program at St. Petersburg College, and this has been an exciting journey teaching the tools and techniques for green teams, and much more, ever since.
I attack the problems of sustainability enthusiastically because, as a Deacon in my church, I believe this planet, with its people, are a gift from our Creator, and we need to be good stewards of creation.
This book helps you to be one of thos good stewards, too. Be prepared to expand your knowledge and your skills through the process outlined in this book. And, be prepared to be wildly successful in your efforts to help people and the planet, while realizing financial gains in the process.