The Step-by-Step Guide to Sustainability Planning: How to Create and Implement Sustainability Plans in Any Business or OrganizationSustainability 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. |
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 |
| 153 | |
Appendices | 157 |
| 169 | |
Other editions - View all
The Step-by-step Guide to Sustainability Planning: How to Create and ... Darcy E. Hitchcock,Marsha L. Willard No preview available - 2008 |
The Step-by-step Guide to Sustainability Planning: How to Create and ... Darcy E. Hitchcock,Marsha L. Willard No preview available - 2008 |