March 16, 2007—The Environmental Law Institute recently announced the publication of a new book that explains how corporations, government agencies, colleges, nonprofits, and other organizations can achieve true sustainability in their operations.
The Sustainability Handbook: The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibility, by William R. Blackburn, provides a blueprint for how organizations of all sizes can reach or exceed economic, social, and environmental excellence.
The 800-page handbook offers a wide variety of practical approaches and tools for structuring, planning, and executing sustainability initiatives. It includes:
- A model sustainability policy for organizations;
- Strategies for “selling” the value of sustainability to management;
- Summaries of sustainability codes and tips on selecting them;
- Suggestions for dealing with stakeholders; and
- Collections of sample metrics.
ELI notes that William Blackburn has worked in the area of corporate sustainability for several decades and is a popular lecturer on the topic. He successfully led sustainability initiatives within a major global corporation and continues to provide guidance on the topic to companies, universities, governments, standards bodies, and nonprofit firms around the world, says ELI.
The Sustainability Handbook is available for purchase on the ELI Web site.
