Sustainability is now part of the lingo for most corporations and business school. Yet, the practical implications and integrated values that sustainability represents are often superficially addressed or sectorially disjointed. Practical Sustainability Strategies offers a comprehensive overview of the innovative significance and practical implications that sustainability has in business practices and for business education. It is a tool for understudying the breath and depth of sustainability practices in the real world of business. The book offers numerous practical messages endorsing socially responsible and environmentally conscious business practices that are the building stones for our sustainable future. Marco Tavanti, President, Sustainable Capacity International Institute (SCII) and Senior Wicklander Fellow, Institute for Business and Professional Ethics (IBPE). The authors have brought together a wide range of methods for thinking about, measuring, and improving corporate sustainability into a single cohesive framework. Their effort will be appreciated both by those who are steeped in these issues (as a reference they can use to refresh and sharpen their view) and by those who are new to the area (who need a single reference that will help them organize the many theories they are exposed to). This book would make a good text for sustainability programs. It covers all of the major paradigms and reviews the arguments in favor of shifting corporations towards more sustainable behavior. It can't give specific examples for each company's situation or for every industry. But it does give a number of useful examples based on the performance and behavior of well-known companies. Our area has needed a work like this for a long time. We should all thank the authors for the huge amount of work they have done to bring together so much knowledge in one place Bahar Gidwani, CFA, Co-founder & CEO, CSRHub If we re to address our environmental challenges at the scale, speed and scope needed to effect change, it will take fresh thinking and big ideas. George Nassos and Nikos Avlonas have created an excellent guide to the opportunities at the intersection of business and sustainability. It s a no-nonsense, highly readable survey of the landscape that shows what s possible when companies align sustainability with business success. Joel Makower, Chairman and Executive Editor, GreenBiz Group Nikos Avlonas is a global leader in developing and implementing sustainability strategies for organizations--including SERF. He has teamed with his colleague George Nassos to masterfully distill their decades of experience in to this powerful and useful work. With an all-too-rare mix of accessible prose and hard data, these gentlemen have produced a work that belongs on the bookshelf of every corporate sustainability officer and concerned citizen of the world. Joseph Maguire, MS, SFP, President, Society of Environmentally Responsible Facilities This work by George Nassos and Nikos Avlonas is an important new resource for both the seasoned sustainability professionals like me as well as those new to the topic. The authors have compiled and describe in a clear and easy-to-read way a vast collection of tools and case studies of utmost value to anyone interested in moving an organization toward sustainability. Well done! Bill Blackburn, President, William Blackburn Consulting, Ltd.
