A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
With unequaled insight, business experts profile 12 outstanding, sustainable, small- to medium-sized enterprises and explain how their green strategies and methods have helped them succeed.

A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses is designed specifically to help smaller enterprises share in the benefits that flow from sustainability. Built around case histories showcasing 12 small to medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that have outstanding records of sustainability, this unique, hands-on guide will help readers choose and develop sustainability strategies and undertake the marketing and management initiatives necessary for success.

The studies collected here detail each company's jourbaney from initial idea through building a new culture, engaging stakeholders, gaining competitive advantage, and planning for the future. Each study also covers the challenges encountered, successes and failures, and lessons learned. Cases are centered around distinct themes, including a marketing/public relations perspective, a risk management perspective, an organizational culture perspective, and a new product development perspective. Taken as a whole, these stories do more than inform. They will inspire managers to become green entrepreneurs, undertaking sustainable strategies that can reap surprising benefits.

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A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
With unequaled insight, business experts profile 12 outstanding, sustainable, small- to medium-sized enterprises and explain how their green strategies and methods have helped them succeed.

A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses is designed specifically to help smaller enterprises share in the benefits that flow from sustainability. Built around case histories showcasing 12 small to medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that have outstanding records of sustainability, this unique, hands-on guide will help readers choose and develop sustainability strategies and undertake the marketing and management initiatives necessary for success.

The studies collected here detail each company's jourbaney from initial idea through building a new culture, engaging stakeholders, gaining competitive advantage, and planning for the future. Each study also covers the challenges encountered, successes and failures, and lessons learned. Cases are centered around distinct themes, including a marketing/public relations perspective, a risk management perspective, an organizational culture perspective, and a new product development perspective. Taken as a whole, these stories do more than inform. They will inspire managers to become green entrepreneurs, undertaking sustainable strategies that can reap surprising benefits.

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A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

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Overview

With unequaled insight, business experts profile 12 outstanding, sustainable, small- to medium-sized enterprises and explain how their green strategies and methods have helped them succeed.

A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses is designed specifically to help smaller enterprises share in the benefits that flow from sustainability. Built around case histories showcasing 12 small to medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that have outstanding records of sustainability, this unique, hands-on guide will help readers choose and develop sustainability strategies and undertake the marketing and management initiatives necessary for success.

The studies collected here detail each company's jourbaney from initial idea through building a new culture, engaging stakeholders, gaining competitive advantage, and planning for the future. Each study also covers the challenges encountered, successes and failures, and lessons learned. Cases are centered around distinct themes, including a marketing/public relations perspective, a risk management perspective, an organizational culture perspective, and a new product development perspective. Taken as a whole, these stories do more than inform. They will inspire managers to become green entrepreneurs, undertaking sustainable strategies that can reap surprising benefits.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313382697
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/03/2011
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Fred Andreas is a principal architect registered in the state of Colorado and a National Certified Architect, NCARB LEED, AP.

Elizabeth S. Cooperman is professor of finance in the Business School at the University of Colorado, Denver.

Blair Gifford is associate professor of health administration and management in the Business School at the University of Colorado, Denver.

Graham Russell is executive director of Connected Organizations for a Responsible Economy (CORE), Denver, CO.

Table of Contents

Preface Fred Andreas ix

Chapter Summaries by Industry Focus xvii

Part I Overview

1 Introduction Graham Russell 3

2 Measuring Costs and Benefits Elizabeth S. Cooperman Elizabeth R. Brost 14

Part II Sustainability Cases for Small to Medium-Sized Firms

Environmental Products

3 Eco-Products Christopher Thorp Sharen A. Durst-Aldridge 35

Sustainable Architecture

4 Barrett Studio Architects, Boulder, Colorado Fred Andreas Clay Chase Pamela Goodrich-Yohe David Jacobs Christopher Thorp 50

5 Forest City: The Evolution of Sustainability in Forest City's Development of Stapleton Fred Andreas Pamela Goodrich-Yohe Robin Groppi 69

Green Hospitals

6 Boulder Community Hospital Blair Gifford Carrie Yasemin Paykoc Alan Romero 82

Green Printing

7 The Digital Frontier Kenneth Bettenhausen Natasha Gleichmann Jennifer Mich 106

Sustainable Banking

8 Boulder Valley Credit Union: "Better Banking Naturally" Elizabeth S. Cooperman Clint McCarver 118

Sustainable Brewing

9 New Belgium Brewery K. J. McCorry Liz Lowry Maria Elena Price 137

Recycling

10 Guaranteed Recycling Xperts: A Cleantech Business That Wasn't Graham Russell 151

Machine Work Services

11 Denver Machine Shop: Sustainability through Four Generations Stephen R. Bernard 168

Socially Responsible Investing

12 First Affirmative Financial Network: Responding to Socially Conscious Market Demand Graham Russell 185

Zero-Waste Hospitality

13 Boulder Outlook Hotel Natasha Gleichmann Kenneth Bettenhausen Jamie M. Dandar 201

Part III Overall Lessons

14 Overall Sustainability Lesson: Why Small and Medium-Sized Firms Should Invest in Sustainability Blair Gifford 213

Glossary 231

Index 241

About the Editors and Contributors 251

What People are Saying About This

L. Hunter Lovins

"There’s a perception that sustainability is only for large companies. This book illustrates that sustainability can just as easily be the cornerstone for small business success. The collaborative nature of this book, involving professionals, educators and grad students from varied disciplines creates a fascinating expose of sustainable small business practices in a wide range of industries. No matter what business you're in, you'll find plenty in here that applies to you. I highly recommend this book to those interested in sustainable approaches and methodology in today’s business world."

David Orr

"Twelve success stories showing that ordinary people working in ordinary enterprises but inspired to do extra-ordinary things can transform businesses, communities, regional economies, and improve our long-term prospects . . . sustainability freed from jargon, puffery, and professional experts may, indeed, be a simpler path to a durable economy."

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