Download or read book How to Start and Sustain a Green Team in Your Workplace written by Idaho. Department of Environmental Quality and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Start a Green Team written by Lynn Grinnell and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever: Been frustrated with the way people waste things?Worried about what kind of world we're leaving to our next generation?Wanted to make a difference at work, at church, or anywhere? Do you think it is possible to bring people together, regardless of point of view, to work on being the best and most responsible citizens? The best way to get started on this journey is to get a green team together. As an individual, you may work at being the best person you can be, making responsible decisions to live a greener life, but that is not enough. We need to get more folks working together to reduce our impact wherever we work or spend our time. This helps everyone - it saves money and makes everyone feel better about how they are living out their values. The truth is, everyone wants a healthy planet!If you want to make a bigger difference helping people live a greener life, this is definitely the book for you.This book is unique in its approach. There are many books out there that give you tips for a greener office or home, but they don't help you organize an effort that will have a bigger impact. This book gives you a clear path to getting everyone in the organization working together towards a greener operation.This book will give you some phenomenal green team planning tools to help you start, recruit, plan, and evaluate where you are, where you want to be, and how to get there. Week One covers how to recruit members for your green team and get everyone excited to be a part of the team. Week Two covers developing goals for your first year and transforming those goals into a good, solid action plan. Week Three shows you how to reduce the inevitable resistance to change and motivate people to adopt the green team's ideas. Week Four shows you how to communicate your vision and plan. Week Five gives you a great way to roll out your plan to the rest of the organization with a fun and inspiring kick-off event, along with alternatives to make sure you reach all the people in your organization. Week Six helps you set up a system to keep your efforts going. Bonus materials include sample checklists and templates for many of the activities. This is the first in a series, Green Team Fundamentals, Book 1. Be on the lookout for Book 2: Green Team Projects: Balancing People, Planet, and Profit.This is the first book you should read when you want to get people excited about the environment and making better decisions about work and lifestyle. Get this book and start now!
Download or read book Ways To Build And Manage A Green Team written by Basil Shad and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizing a constructive and progressive green team or sustainability committee within your company can be one of the most empowering and valuable moves on your sustainability journey. Sometimes though, it can be a bit daunting to get one started, especially if you don't have a serious focus on sustainability within the business yet and commitment from all executives. This book gives you a clear path to getting everyone in the organization working together towards a greener operation. This book will give you some phenomenal green team planning tools to help you start, recruit, plan, and evaluate where you are, where you want to be, and how to get there.
Download or read book The Green Workplace written by Leigh Stringer and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As 21st-century companies realize they'll need to be green to compete, sustainable ideas are spreading like wildfire throughout all fields of modern business. In The Green Workplace, Leigh Stringer, an expert on sustainable workplace design and strategy, shows companies on the cusp of radically transforming their practices how to bring together diverse teams and establish new organizational governance for creative problem-solving in greening their workplace. Her hands-on green strategies are based on concrete and cost-effective changes such as: - working from home - ways to cut commuting costs - video conferencing to cut down on travel - increasing access to natural light to save energy - and more. Stringer explains how managers can implement these changes smoothly and efficiently. In solving key problems, she shows companies how a green business reduces costs, increases productivity, improves recruiting and retention, and increases shareholder value, in addition to benefiting the environment.
Download or read book Nonprofit Guide to Going Green written by Ted Hart and published by John Wiley and Sons. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive, practical, go-to resource guide on helping all charities become more "green" Nonprofit Guide to Going Green is your comprehensive learning tool to guide nonprofits and NGOs towards becoming greener. A desktop reference for any charitable organization to become greener, this essential book gives your organization the support it needs to take proactive steps to protect the environment while fulfilling its mission. Timely and clearly written, with contributions from experts from around the globe, Nonprofit Guide to Going Green leads the way in helping charities in all countries meet this challenge. Helps nonprofits green their efforts and carbon footprint * Shows CEOs, presidents, deans, marketing officers, board members proactive steps they can take to protect the environment * Teaches how to do a self-audit and plan for a more environmentally sensitive future * Nonprofit Guide to Going Green delivers a timely and essential call to action for this new century. Can your organization afford not to "go green?"
Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
Download or read book Green Entrepreneur Handbook written by Eric Koester and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a practicing business attorney with startup experience in the environmental and technology sectors, this comprehensive handbook assists entrepreneurs in tackling the wide variety of opportunities to go green. A one-stop resource for entrepreneurs, it helps readers incorporate clean technology, environmental practices, and green business approaches into the work environment. The book discusses how to sell to utilities, explores fundraising outlets for green businesses, covers government incentives, presents key startup tools aimed at green businesses, and addresses challenges of many new businesses, such as raising money and making sales. Additional resources are available on the book's website.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Greening Your Business written by Heather Gadonniex and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green is the color of money! Businesses are always looking to increase their profitability and market share. With rising costs of fuel and consumers targeting environmentally-responsible companies to patronize, businesses have jumped on the green initiative and reaped the financial benefits. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Greening Your Business provides the most up-to-date, concrete, and practical steps for readers to follow to get rich by going green. *Solid authors with "green" background *White-hot green market *Comprehensive, practical business approach
Download or read book Green Teams in Government written by Curtis Dorosh and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government Services (2007) has recognised their operations are having adverse effects on the planet. Energy, water, and material use, carbon dioxide emissions from travel and building operation, and waste disposal are of concern. This research used an action research methodology to establish a group of employees (green team) who were interested in making their organisation more sustainable. The research also used interviews with executives at Government Services, interviews with other organisations that had experience using green teams, and personal reflection. Over 30 interviews were conducted with 15 organisations and 61 Government Services employees participated in the green team. As a result, an active green team with 15 green initiatives are underway and the culture is shifting towards sustainability. The research makes recommendations for establishing, maintaining, and growing green teams in organisations. The research concludes a green team can help an organisation work to reduce its environmental footprint and shift culture towards sustainability.
Download or read book How To Become An Environmentally Friendly Workplace written by Bessie Skornik and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, not only is the environment (and climate change) at the forefront of national and international conversations but companies and organizations are expected to do their part - primarily because they tend to have much more of an eco-footprint than do individuals. Going green - or working towards goals to be more sustainable and conscious about the environment doesn't need to be complicated or overly expensive. Every office is capable of implementing go green ideas that can help the environment and even save money. In this book, the author shows managers how to green company operations by moving to a paperless office, recycling at work, setting up employee carpools, developing eco-friendly packaging, using green building products, and more. She explains in detail topics ranging from green marketing to setting up a carbon footprint assessment for the company. With this book at their side, managers can turn green into profits.
Download or read book Sustainable Home written by Christine Liu and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stylish, inspirational, and practical guide to maintaining a more environmentally friendly household—includes eighteen projects both big and small. Sustainable lifestyle blogger and professional Christine Liu takes you on a tour through the rooms of your home—the living area, kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom—offering tips, tricks, and 18 step-by-step projects designed to help you lead a more low-impact lifestyle. From guidance on decluttering and living minimally to advice about plant-based foods to tips on repairing old clothes, this book touches every aspect of home life. Whether it’s by making your own toothpaste, converting to renewable energy sources, reducing your consumption of plastic, growing your own herb garden, or upcycling old pieces of furniture, the projects in this book offer numerous ways—both large and small—to make a difference.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility written by Samuel O. Idowu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-01-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of Corporate Social Responsibility in the business world has developed from a fig leaf marketing front into an important aspect of corporate behavior over the past several years. Sustainable strategies are valued, desired and deployed more and more by relevant players in many industries all over the world. Both research and corporate practice therefore see CSR as a guiding principle for business success. The “Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility” has been conceived to assist researchers and practitioners to align business and societal objectives. All actors in the field will find reliable and up to date definitions and explanations of the key terms of CSR in this authoritative and comprehensive reference work. Leading experts from the global CSR community have contributed to make the “Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility” the definitive resource for this field of research and practice.
Download or read book Radical Candor written by Kim Malone Scott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other. It is about providing guidance, which involves a mix of praise as well as criticism, delivered to produce better results and help employees develop their skills and boundaries of success. Great bosses have a strong relationship with their employees, and Kim Scott Malone has identified three simple principles for building better relationships with your employees: make it personal, get stuff done, and understand why it matters. Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Drawing on years of first-hand experience, and distilled clearly to give actionable lessons to the reader, Radical Candor shows how to be successful while retaining your integrity and humanity. Radical Candor is the perfect handbook for those who are looking to find meaning in their job and create an environment where people both love their work, their colleagues and are motivated to strive to ever greater success.
Download or read book Everyone Deserves a Great Manager written by Scott Jeffrey Miller and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER*** From the organizational experts at FranklinCovey, an essential guide to becoming the great manager every team deserves. A practical must-read, FranklinCovey’s Everyone Deserves a Great Manager is the essential guide for the millions of people all over the world making the challenging and rewarding leap to manager. Based on nearly a decade of research on what makes managers successful—and includes new ways of thinking, tips and techniques—this volume has been field-tested with hundreds of thousands of managers all over the world. Organized under four main roles every manager is expected to fill, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager focuses on how to lead yourself, people, teams, and change. Readers can start anywhere and go everywhere with this guide—depending on their current problem or time constraint. They can pick up a helpful tip in ten minutes or glean an entire skillset with deeper reading. The goal is for the busy manager to know what to do and how to do it without interrupting their regular workflow. Each role highlights the current, authentic problems managers face and briefly explores the limiting mindsets or common mistakes that led to those problems. With skill-based chapters that cover managerial skills like one-on-ones, giving feedback, delegating, hiring, building team culture, and leading remote teams, the book also includes more than thirty unique tools, such as a prep worksheets and a list of behavioral questions for your next interview. An approachable, engaging style using real-world stories, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager provides the blueprint for becoming the great manager every team deserves.
Download or read book Green Recovery written by Andrew S. Winston and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives. That's a big mistake. In Green Recovery, Andrew Winston shows that no company can afford to wait for the downturn to ease before going green. Green initiatives ratchet up your company's resource efficiency, creativity, and employee motivation. They save energy, waste, and money, preserving precious capital-and give precise focus to your innovation efforts and strategic priorities. Part manifesto and part how-to guide, this concise and engaging book provides a road map for using green initiatives to deliver short-term gains and position your company for long-term strategic growth. You'll discover how to: -Get lean: Amp up your energy and resource efficiency to survive tough times -Get smart: Use environmental data about products and supply chains for competitive advantage -Get creative: Rejuvenate your innovation efforts by asking heretical questions such as "How might we operate with no fossil fuels?" -Get going: Engage and excite employees to solve the company's, the customer's, and the world's environmental challenges Green Recovery is your guide to establishing your competitive positioning in difficult times and emerging even stronger into a vastly changed economy.
Download or read book Sustainability Pocketbook written by Patricia Hind and published by Management Pocketbooks. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing sustainability is fast becoming critical to business success - to meeting customer and stakeholder expectations. The Sustainability Pocketbook is for managers who want to get involved in this area but are not sure where to start or what they can realistically do. You may not have direct responsibility for environmental issues within your job, but you can make a difference. Starting by defining and demystifying the topic, the Sustainability Pocketbook sets out a model for sustainability within six main areas of activity (environment, workplace, supply chain, marketplace, stakeholders and community). Full of useful frameworks and relevant topical cases from around the world, it encourages you to challenge current thinking and practices in order to create and deliver an action plan. If you want to find practical tips to help you embed sustainability into your everyday work, this is the place to start.
Download or read book The Green Partnership Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
