Sustainable Business
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There are 4 chapters to this workbook. Chapter 1 Sustainability (80% complete) is an outline to the sustainability issue and a framework for planning and operating a sustainable business. Chapter 2 You and your business (70% complete) is a guide for preparing a business plan. Chapter 3 Your methods of business (70% ready to start using) contains an ever growing list of booklets on how to do specific tasks in your business. And finally, we don't think a business can be said to be sustainable without some way of evaluating, so we hope Chapter 4 Evaluating your business (20% complete) will help you review your plan and methods and evaluate your business' sustainability. When the chapters and booklets are complete enough, we will have a graphic designer contracted to produce a print version that will be made available by early 2010.
If think you can help us finish or add to this workbook, by all means feel free to edit and make additions. We would appreciate it if we could stay with the chapter structure however.
[edit] Credits
Thanks to The New Zealand Ministry for the Environment and Otago Polytechnic for initiating this project. Thanks to the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise for their support in providing methods content. Further background information regarding this project.
[edit] Links and Resources
- NZTE Sustainability pages
- Green Cabs
- Strong Sustainability for New Zealand, principles and scenarios - Sustainable Aotearoa New Zealand Inc (SANZ)
- Opinion Rod Oram
- NZTE text Starting a Business
- Teenage car salesman beating the recession TV3 Campbell Live 17 Set 2009
- Envirostep - tool to help businesses self evaluate their eco impact
- Video: Starting a business in tough times. A short report from Television New Zealand TVNZ 1
- Flight carbon calculator
- Carbon trading interview - There's a great deal of unease across rural Australia about the cost farmers will bear when agriculture is eventually included in an emissions trading scheme.
- Video - Financial permaculture - A documentary about the 1st Financial Permaculture Summit in Hohenwald, TN.
- Wiki - Financial Permaculture
- Information sheets - Financial Permaculture
- Tennessee based course in Financial Permaculture: Business plan templates and information
- Blog post and discussion: Financial Permaculture - What is it?
- Fashion Production Loop
- Crash Course - Ready to learn everything you need to know about the economy in the shortest amount of time? The Crash Course is a condensed online version of Chris Martenson's "End of Money" seminar.
- The Story of Stuff - a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
- Open Source Ecology - Open source scientific farming and engineering
- Video explaining an open economic model
- Factor e Farm - A five minute reader
- Corporate Sustainability Reporting in New Zealand - A research paper looking into triple bottom line accounting
- Global Reporting Initiative - Develops and disseminates globally applicable "Sustainability Reporting Guidelines" for voluntary use by organisations reporting on the economic, social and ecological bottom lines
- Video - Capitalism hits the fan - a talk by Richard Wolff. Notes by Bill Kerr
- Here's a Switch: Some Good News About Banking. Arianna Huffington, Posted April 13, 2009 Huffington Post. "And now for something completely different: some good news about banking."
- Economic Value Added - An accounting formula that might help inform triple bottom line accounting
