Reading Green

Whether you’re just starting your green journey or an old eco-hand, there’s a green business book to take you to the next level.

Beginner
Don’t know where to start? Green Business Practices For Dummies by Lisa Swallow, offers tips to green your business without taking green from your bottom line. Scalable advice applies to mom-and-pops as well as big business. 

Intermediate
Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution, by Auden Schendler, is a contrarian look at the realities of greening business from someone who has done plenty of time in the trenches. Schendler is executive direct of sustainability at the Aspen Skiing Company. He takes on the barriers to sustainability and some common myths about how to achieve it in clear and readable prose. 

Advanced

Meant for managers, The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook: When It All Comes Together, edited by Jeana Wirtenberg PhD with William G. Russell and David Lipsky PhD is a collection of essays addressing what sustainable means, how to implement it within an organization and how to measure whether it’s working. Includes models, tools and case studies. A “living fieldbook” at www.TheSustainableEnterpriseFieldbook.net (type that three times fast!) provides ongoing updated community support.