Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Green Business

This book proposes a new model, the Lean and Green Business Model (L&GBM), where the environmental aspect of sustainability is integrated with Lean thinking in order to create a way of thinking that contributes to and balances the three sustainability dimensions of people, profit, and planet. The model presented uses a kaizen approach that will help readers improve mass and energy flows in manufacturing environments that already possess a deployment level in applying Lean.

The Green Factory: Creating Lean and Sustainable Manufacturing tells the story of how GKN, a major...

Today greenness is goodness; non-greenness is not an option. It is therefore critical to advance thinking on why and how business, consumers and policy makers can contribute to the goal of sustainable global wealth creation. This volume analyzes the strategic sustainability issues confronting contemporary business, and explores the transformation in values, strategies, and practices needed by modern businesses to attain sustainable business. It is is developed from a Global Business Symposium organized by the Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM) at Cambridge University...

Do you dream of starting a vegan business?

Have you been running a vegan business and are looking for ways to grow it?

This book is the ultimate guide on how to start and grow a business run on vegan principles. Written by award-winning journalist Katrina Fox, it features insights and advice from over 60 vegan business owners, entrepreneurs, marketing, PR and business growth professionals in the US, Canada, Australia and UK.

Vegan Ventures provides you with a peek inside the operations of those who have been there, done it and are still doing it. Among the...

This book applies the main concepts of modern managerial science to the world of forestry and is the perfect book for students studying forestry and wood...

This book takes the improvement and replacement of energy forms as mainline. From a perspective of macro-history and inter-discipline, the stereoscopic observation of energy, science and technology, environment and development course of human civilization is carried out, the objective laws of energy replacement and civilization evolution are revealed, the real predicament why we fall into and how we get out of is carefully investigated, and the brilliant perspective of future energy form and civilization pattern is given. The book is suitable for the readers who are concerned about energy,...