Sharpening a Competitive Edge from Sustainability in the Business World.
Western Mail, July 22, 2006. We've been talking about 'sustainable development' for 20 years, writes Trudy Heller. But if industry doesn't seize the challenge of climate change there is trouble ahead.
Sharpening a Competitive Edge from Sustainability in the Business World
Lead Out: Management's greatest environmental resource might be right under its nose.
Environmental Protection, May 2006 ...Like the university that hires an outside educational consultant rather than use the expertise of its own education department, management may overlook the EHS staff as a resource for expertise on sustainability. Lead Out
The Loss of the Natural Environment: A Group Relations Perspective on our Failure to Take Collective Action (with Dana Kamenstein), Feb 2005.
In some industries we have evolved a system of manufacturing that places the most polluting part of the production process in a part of the world that is as remote from the USA as possible. This arrangement allows us to deny the extent of our pollution problem, but at the cost of failing to develop systems for cleaner production.
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Environmental Challenges Create Opportunity for Business, Ulster Business Journal, Northern Ireland, February 2005.
The business community has developed a wealth of bright ideas for addressing environmental challenges in recent years.
Educating Environmental Professionals about Sustainable Business: Creating Bridging Organizations for Learning...
Communicating beyond the green wall requires a staff of environmental managers who are bi-cultural and educated about new sustainable business practices and thoughts. Proceedings of the Air & Waste Management Association Annual Conference, 2005.
Corporate Education Programs for Sustainable Business. In Teaching Business Sustainability, C. Galea (Ed.). Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2004.
The goal is to educate employees to understand the general big picture of our unsustainable world and…the roles to be played by themselves and their businesses in developing more sustainable practices.
Profitable Environmentalism, Letter to the Editor, Foreign Policy (Jan-Feb 2002). The environment problem can be seen as one big innovation challenge.
Applause for DuPont, Letter to the Editor, Philadelphia Inquirer (July 12, 2002).
Information Disclosure in Environmental Policy and the Development of Secretly Environmentally Friendly Products (with Jeanne Mroczko). In Research in Corporate Sustainability, S. Sharma & M. Starik (Eds.), Edward Elgar, 2002.
...in some cases, a company's "walk" may actually be greener than its "talk."
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