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Navigating Sustainable Growth: A Roadmap for Boards and Corporate Leaders
Gib Hedstrom
This book addresses how leading companies can thrive in an emerging future that prioritizes decarbonization and dematerialization. With over 300 examples of practices by 180 leading global companies, this timely book discusses how companies must demonstrate a track record of reducing negative impacts and creating value through sustainable offerings — and help suppliers and customers do the same. They must understand that the board owns the critical 5-7-year planning horizon that is key to how successful companies create long-term value. As climate risks amplify, the short-term focus of most executive teams leads to missing new opportunities while facing new perils. This book will help investors, citizens, students, and educators discover proven strategies for sustainable growth; CEOs and corporate secretaries to reframe board agendas; and boards to measure performance and chart a course to transform climate risk into opportunity.
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Scaling Conservation: The business of restoring the wild
Rich Stockdale
Scaling Conservation helps people by reframing conservation as an economic necessity rather than an optional nicety. Showing how nature can be valued as a bankable asset, the book empowers readers to see environmental restoration not only as a moral duty but also as a financial opportunity that safeguards livelihoods, homes, food, air, and water. Through real-world examples from Oxygen Conservation’s £200 million natural capital portfolio and the transformation of 43,000 acres of land. This book helps individuals, communities, and businesses understand how investing in nature can drive innovation, resilience, and prosperity. For conservationists, it provides inspiration and practical guidance; for investors and leaders, it offers a roadmap to align profit with purpose. Ultimately, it helps people by proving that protecting nature is not optional; it is the key to a thriving and sustainable future.
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How to Be Sustainable: Business Strategies for Leading Change
Paolo Taticchi
Melina Corvaglia-Charrey
According to PwC, the number of Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs) tripled in 2021 alone. Business leaders across the world are realizing that, if they are to effectively reduce their carbon footprint and play their part in combating climate change, they need to implement sustainability initiatives that are practical and impactful.
How to be Sustainable uncovers the global CSOs and other changemakers who are successfully deploying sustainability practices, which are making a difference. For this book, leading business sustainability academic Paolo Taticchi has interviewed these figures from across the world and across different sectors to discover the common methods and strategies that lead to change.
From building collaboration and engagement to actively implementing sustainability initiatives, this book clearly outlines the practical steps behind turning an organization into a sustainability gamechanger.
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The Green Wave: Embracing Renewable Energy in Maritime Shipping
Mustafa Nejem
The Green Wave is not just a maritime guide , it is a journey of hope and transformation. Every chapter invites readers to imagine cleaner oceans, thriving port cities, and ships powered by the limitless energy of nature. It speaks to the ship captain seeking safer, greener voyages; to the engineer determined to innovate beyond fossil fuels; and to the policymaker envisioning a future where trade and ecology coexist in harmony. By weaving real-world case studies with actionable solutions, the book ignites a sense of responsibility and possibility. Readers come away not only informed but deeply inspired , realizing that their daily choices can reduce emissions, preserve marine life, and create a legacy for generations to come. The Green Wave empowers people to believe that sustainable change is within reach, and that they have the power to steer the course toward a brighter, cleaner, and more prosperous maritime future.
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Unleashing an Infinite Future
Todd Thomas
Unleashing an Infinite Future empowers readers to think boldly about the future of energy, technology, and humanity’s role in shaping both. Rather than offering quick fixes, the book helps readers understand how breakthroughs in AI, clean energy, biocomputing, and sustainable infrastructure can create a more abundant and resilient world. For entrepreneurs, policymakers, and curious minds alike, it’s a roadmap to long-term success—financial, environmental, and societal. Readers walk away with a clearer understanding of where innovation is heading and how to position themselves or their organizations to thrive in that future. Whether you're navigating career choices, investment decisions, or simply trying to make sense of a rapidly changing world, *Unleashing an Infinite Future* provides a big-picture perspective that can lead to smarter strategies, more meaningful impact, and a deeper sense of purpose. It’s not just about surviving the future—it’s about helping build it.