The Step-by-step Guide to Sustainability Planning: How to Create and Implement Sustainability Plans in Any Business Or Organization

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Sustainability is now the greatest business imperative, yet how do you actually develop and implement a sustainability plan if you aren't an expert?

From the authors of the award-winning handbook The Business Guide to Sustainability comes this highly practical guide to designing and implementing a customized sustainability plan in any business, organization or government department of any type and scale.

This step-by-step guide explains how to create a sustainability plan and sustainability report. Each chapter has two vital sections. The first contains background reading, tips and case examples to help you be successful. The second presents a set of methods each with step-by-step instructions and a selection matrix to help choose the best methods. The book also contains sample worksheets and exercise materials that can be copied for organization-wide use.

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Contents

Chapter 1 Preparing for Change
1
Chapter 2 Refining the Business Case
17
Chapter 3 Creating the Vision of Sustainability
37
Chapter 4 Identifying Impacts and Priorities
53
Chapter 5 Developing Sustainability Metrics and Reports
65
Chapter 6 Developing an Implementation Strategy and Choosing Projects
83
Chapter 7 Developing Effective Management Systems
99
Chapter 8 Determining the Structures Needed to Manage the Effort
115
Chapter 9 Informing and Involving Employees
131
References
153
Appendices
157
Index
169
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