Business Information Alert articles from April 2002

Business Information Alert archives from April 2002

Green business: the evolution of an industry.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... "The biggest impetus for change in business practices is not a growing sense of social responsibility, but market forces--concerned customers, vocal employees, and pragmatic investors who are worried about the value of their holdings. What...

The "new" environmental concerns.
April 1, 2002... What sets this current movement apart from the environmental movement of the 1960s and '70s? We now have an entire generation that has grown up with environmental messages. This generation, along with those that started the environmental...

Vocabulary--a few key terms.
April 1, 2002... Biomimicry: Studying nature and natural systems and then applying the lessons learned to human processes. For example, in nature there is no waste. By-products are part of the life cycle of renewal and death. Recycling or renewing our old...

Benyus, Janine M. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. (Books on the Topic).
April 1, 2002... Benyus, Janine M. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Morrow, William & Co., 1998. ISBN: 0688160999. (Books on the Topic) Biomimicry is a book on innovation. The lessons come from nature and are applied to our own processes and...

Brown, Lester R. Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. (Books on the Topic).
April 1, 2002... Brown, Lester R. Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. Earth Policy Institute, 2001. ISBN: 0393321932. (Books on the Topic) Eco-Economy asks the reader to consider whether the environment is part of the economy or whether the...

Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business. (Books on the Topic).
April 1, 2002... Elkington, John. Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business. New Society Publishers, 1998. ISBN: 0865713928. (Books on the Topic) The title of this book comes from Polish poet Stanislaw Lec who asked: "Is it...

Everybody's Business: Managing Risks and Opportunities in Today's Global Society. (Books on the Topic).
April 1, 2002... Grayson, David & Hodges, Adrian. Everybody's Business: Managing Risks and Opportunities in Today's Global Society. DK, 2002. ISBN: 0789483912. (Books on the Topic) Published in association with the Prince of Wales International Business...

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. (Books on the Topic).
April 1, 2002... Hawken, Paul, Lovins, Amory & Lovins, L. Hunter. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Little, Brown and Company, 1999. ISBN: 0316353167. (Books on the Topic) This was the book that started my environmental business...

The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology, and the Evolutionary Corporation. (Books on the Topic).
April 1, 2002... Nattrass, Brian & Altomare, Mary. The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology, and the Evolutionary Corporation. New Society Publishers, 1999. ISBN: 0865713847. (Books on the Topic) The Natural Step is an international organization...

The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World. (Books on the Topic).
April 1, 2002... Ray, Paul H. & Anderson, Sherry Ruth. The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World. Harmony Books, 2000. ISBN: 0609604678. (Books on the Topic) The Cultural Creatives is different from the other books listed here....

Business for social responsibility. (Organizations).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... www.bsr.org/index.cfm Made up of nearly 1,500 businesses worldwide, BSR provides its members with data, tools, communities, and training to "advance leadership in responsible business practices." While portions of the site are only...

Conservation Alliance. (Organizations).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... www.conservationalliance.com/ The Conservation Alliance is a new breed of organizations that is made up of over 60 outdoor businesses. The Alliance provides grants for grass roots citizen-action groups to protect and conserve natural and...

Earth Policy Institute. (Organizations).(Web site content)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... earth-policy. org The Institute provides a forum to redesign our economy in environmental terms. They provide the vision of what an "eco-economy" looks like, as well as a roadmap for how to get to that vision. This site is rich in...

International Organization for Standardization (ISO). (Organizations).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage ISO 14000 is a family of standards that addresses environmental management. The ISO site has some excellent resources to explain those standards in layman's terms. Dee Magnoni is owner of the...

National Library for the Environment. (Organizations).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... www.cnie.org/nle/ The U.S. government provides so much information from such a variety of resources and agencies that I have decided to condense them all by pointing to one incredible web site: The National Library for the Environment....

Rocky Mountain Institute. (Organizations).(overview)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... www.rmi.org "Rocky Mountain Institute is an entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to create a more secure, prosperous, and life-sustaining world" (from the web site). The...

WorldCSR.com. (Organizations).
April 1, 2002... www.worldcsr.com/pages/ This page serves as a launch pad site to socially responsible organizations around the world. There is currently no unique content on the site, but links to information and organizations.

Hetch Hetchy revisited. (Organizations).
April 1, 2002... There are many more resources to explore. The ones I have mentioned here are a good start and offer links to further information. So have we made progress? Most certainly. The symbiotic relationships being formed between the various...

Behind the [on] lines. (News & Trends).
April 1, 2002... Remember the World Wide Web (WWW)? Before long, we'll be reminiscing about the primordial days of the Internet. Tim BemersLee, inventor of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and the WWW, plans to replace it in 2005 with the Semantic Web, a...

From uncle sam. (News & Trends).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... If you engage in international trade, look out for heightened tariff commotion. First, expect U.S. trading partners to react to the heavy duty recently levied on foreign steel. The Trade Compliance Center provides compliance updates at their...

Seven Steps to a Successful Business Plan. (Business Strategy).
April 1, 2002... Al Coke. 2001. AMACOM, a division of American Management Association. 428p. ISBN. 0-8144-0648-3. $99.95. Traditional business planning often fails, Al Coke asserts, because the company story does not hang together across all parts of the...

Knowledge Media in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges. (Healthcare).
April 1, 2002... Rolf Grutter, ed 2002. Idea Group Publishing, 283p. ISBN: 1-930708-13-0. $74.95. Knowledge media allows communities of individuals to think, communicate, and create knowledge and therefore provide a platform for lifelong learning. With...

Developing Teams Through Project-Based Learning. (Management).
April 1, 2002... Jean Atkinson. 2001. Cower Publishing. Hardcover. 152p. ISBN 0-566-08367-1. $69.95. Team building is a popular topic, but it is usually discussed in isolation from any specific task. In Developing Teams Through Project-Based Learning,...

Marvellous Meetings: A Facilitator's Guide. (Management).
April 1, 2002... Christine Newton. 2001. Cower Publishing. Hardcover. 127p. ISBN. 0-566-08423-6. $59.95. Meetings are a fact of work life. How many of us can relate to this recent Dilbert cartoon sequence: Dilbert: "I just had a good meeting." ...