You Can't Make Money From a Dead Planet
The Sustainable Method for Driving Profits
- 296 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Doing good is no longer a luxury or a 'nice to have', it's a necessity. While businesses, both big and small, have undoubtedly caused the majority of our environmental and sustainability problems, only they can solve these issues at scale. Y ou Can't Make Money from a Dead Plan et looks at the challenges we face and shows how business needs to change in order to be the driver of the solution. Bestselling author and sustainability strategist Mark Shayler explains why there is no contradiction between being profitable and doing the right thing for the planet and doing the right thing for your customers. Providing the insights, the enthusiasm and the tools to align your business with sustainability, the book blends explanations of the challenges that we face, with stories from those business that have excelled in sustainability. Exploring current sustainability approaches and trends including net-zero, circular economy, ESG, B-Corps, zero waste and environmental management systems, You Can't Make Money From a Dead Planet explains, debunks and helps you navigate the sustainable agenda while growing your business.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Where are we and how did we get here?
- 2 You can’t make money from a dead planet
- 3 The main environmental challenges
- 4 Business impacts
- 5 Is there any good news?
- 6 How do we do good and still turn a profit?
- 7 The strategic tools you need to change your business
- 8 The practical and science-based tools to change your business (and still make a profit)
- 9 Re-framing business
- 10 The regenerative business
- ‘The last chapter’
- Notes
- Index