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Learn sustainability strategies to reduce your company's carbon footprint, mitigate risk, help your bottom line, and protect your company's brand.
A changing climate compels us to change the way we do business. Incorporating sustainability into your business can help your bottom line and build your company's brand. This course shows how to adopt smart sustainability practices to drive financial performance, attract and retain employees, and protect...
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Library workers at all types of organizations, as well as LIS students learning about this newest Core Value of Librarianship, will find this book an easy-to-digest introduction to what staff at a range of libraries have accomplished in incorporating sustainability into their decision making and professional practices. In addition, a discussion about the role of economics and sustainability will challenge readers to stretch in new ways to positively...
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Learn important factors needed to understand, communicate, and deliver a sustainability action report for your organization.
Climate change affects us all, and it’s necessary for tech leaders to create sustainability plans and recognize how their organization contributes to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions creation, the main cause of climate change. Technology has a vital role to play in the delivery of climate change, both in the creation and removal...
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Learn sustainability strategies to reduce your company's carbon footprint, mitigate risk, help your bottom line, and protect your company's brand.
A changing climate compels us to change the way we do business. Incorporating sustainability into your business can help your bottom line and build your company's brand. This course shows how to adopt smart sustainability practices to drive financial performance, attract and retain employees, and protect...
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Vicki Robin discusses the multiple dimensions of freedom, including paradox, and how this relates to sustainability-both personal and planetary. "If we make certain choices-personally, socially, politically, culturally-there is an emergent, practical, beautiful, delicious and fun reality that is waiting for us to step into."
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Move from outer elements of sustainability—such as solar energy, ecocities, and organic agriculture—to inner dimensions of sustainability: spirituality, holistic health, and well-being. Learn what faith-based organizations have to say about sustainability, investigate meditation, and delve deeper into the Slow Food Movement..
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Become more fluent with sustainability by learning the most important terms and concepts.
Solving the environmental crisis we're in is a critically important topic for everyone to consider in life and at work, from individual contributors to the c-suite. We hear about the climate and biodiversity crisis, and the need to transform business, but the frameworks and jargon can be confusing. What does net zero actually mean? What are the world’s sustainable...
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Explore the impact AI/ML, Big Data, and IoT have on driving sustainability on an enterprise level.
With climate change and growing scarcity of natural resources, there is a strong need for individuals and organizations to design and implement effective sustainable and environmental technological solutions. In this course, Talal Gedeon highlights the demand for individuals and organizations to design and implement effective sustainable and environmental...
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Our future depends on sustainable solutions. Learn why social, economic, and ecological sustainability is important to design and to our world.
The world is facing a number of environmental, economic, and social challenges. Our future depends on sustainable solutions that improve our lives, without adversely affecting our neighbors or our ecosystems. Designers have a unique role to play in the way forward. Watch this course to explore the tools,...
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Creating and implementing a new sustainability program can be daunting – where to start?
2023 FAPA PRESIDENT'S BOOK AWARD SILVER MEDALIST
This book is a roadmap for the ABCs of starting a sustainability program for your business. There's no better time to start than now (no matter how long you've been in business). Designed to be a practical tool for any professional, this guide provides a hands-on approach to implementing programs and practices...
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The New Sustainability Advantage shows how the benefits of the "triple bottom line" can increase a typical company's profit by at least 51 to 81% within five years, depending on the company's size and industry sector, while avoiding risks that could jeopardize its financial wellbeing.
Fully revised and updated, this 10th anniversary edition clearly demonstrates that, by focusing on seven powerful yet easy-to-grasp sustainability strategies, businesses...
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A scientist and sustainability expert distills the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into clear actions for individuals seeking ways to live and work more sustainably.
Companies around the world view sustainability as a strategic imperative. This course is for employees who want to support that imperative on an individual level. Learn about how personal and collective sustainability actions can help solve the biggest challenges of our...
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Learn practical ways to reduce waste and pollution, conserve energy, prioritize sustainable transportation, and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within your organization.
Creating sustainability in the business world has never been more vital. Sustainability has become a critical aspect of developing business resilience and profit maintainability. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programming and reporting, the focus of corporate...
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Explore how and why sustainability is an opportunity for your business to innovate and grow.
Sustainability is quickly becoming a must-have in business—a technical skill set that employees, managers, and executives need to gain deeper understanding and build capacity to grow. It’s a way of thinking about how you use, value, and respect a world of shared but finite natural resources that we all depend on to create the products and services we...
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Look beyond recycling to the higher goal of sustainability. Then close the course by considering the Great Northeast Blackout of 2003. Caused by inadequately pruned trees and a software bug, this cascading sequence of infrastructure failures holds important lessons for the world of everyday engineering..
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