Company Herman Miller and a band of people determined to make their company a good global citizen. They end up answering one of the critical questions of our time: Is sustainable business sustainable? Can employees in global companies make great products, take care of the environment, benefit society, and make good money good times and bad?

Product Description: “America’s greenest CEO” and the hero from the award-winning documentary The Corporation makes the urgent, compelling case that sustainable business pays.His story is now legend. In 1994, after reading The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, Ray Anderson felt a “spear in the chest”: the founder of Interface, Inc...read more

Product Description: Leveraging the Private Sector offers the first sustained analysis of public and private sector initiatives designed to encourage firms and industries to use their own management expertise to improve their environmental performance...read more

Product Description: This is a pathbreaking account of how the environmental movement has led to profound changes in the perceptions and practices of large-scale corporations, as shown here in the chemical and petroleum industries. The book traces how market, social, and political pressures drive corporations to respond to environmental issues, analyzes the cultural frames that organizations use to come to terms with these external influences, and describes the resulting changes in organizational culture and structure...read more

Product Description: Environmental concerns can greatly affect business success, regardless of whether a business person or corporation shares those concerns. Today's corporate managers must understand the power of environmental issues, and shift their mindset from one focused on environmental "management" to one focused on strategy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This guide to ISO 14000 provides a review of the 14001 standard and a description of the 14000 series (the international quality standards that relate to how manufacturing processes and other business activities affect the environment)...read more

Product Description: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has a master scheme in mind for the protection and preservation of the environment, for sustainable development of life and improving the ecosystem. They call it ISO 14000, the standard and guidelines for effective environmental management systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Environmental auditing is a method by which a firm's compliance with environmental regulations can be monitored and measured. In recent years, it has become the primary method of managing the environmental responsibilities and liabilities of large companies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Whether or not you believe the earth's environment is in trouble, you still need to be aware of the environmental tide of trends, public opinion, and laws that are sweeping North America. This tide is transforming the commercial world almost daily...read more

Discusses ecologically-sound business opportunities