The Handbook of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing: From Design & Production to Labeling & Recycling

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Companies seeking a competitive advantage are employing environmentally responsible design and production methods to meet the demands of their customers, regulators, employees, and the community. The Handbook of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing is the essential guide to developing, creating and marketing environmental improvements. Going far beyond traditional primers that cover only regulatory compliance, this resource helps to create an organization-wide strategy for designing environmentally responsible products and methods, and use those same processes to market them to the public. This is the first work of its kind to integrate both the manufacturing and marketing dimensions of environmental excellence. By incorporating environmental considerations into proven management techniques, The Handbook of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing provides a simple foundation for understanding and implementing the principles of environmental design and manufacturing, while simultaneously creating genuine marketing opportunities. The Handbook of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing also explains how to: meet the legal and technical challenges of manufacturing products that truly quality as ``green'' domestically and internationally; market products to take advantage of an environmentally conscious manufacturing approach; anticipate and plan for future environmental regulations by monitoring key indicators.

Green Business: A Five-part Model for Creating an Environmentally Responsible Company

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A colorful overview of sustainability practices

Green Business: A Five-part Model for Creating an Environmentally Responsible Company
Amy K., Ph.D. Townsend
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0764325035

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A colorful overview of sustainability practices.......2007-03-12

This is a large-format, coffee-table book that makes a colorful and enjoyable introduction to the basic elements of enhancing sustainability for any type of business. It is written at a more basic level and is successful in giving a broad overview of the range of typical sustainbility practices:
+ Greening your mission
+ Greening your employees
+ Greening your operations
+ Greening your facilities/sites
+ Greening your products/service

This is certainly one of the more attractive books on the topic of green business and includes many interesting (but basic) examples and glossy color photos of green companies, LEEDS-rated facilities, eco-friendly products, renewable energy systems and ecosystem damage to illustrate the points. The usual line-up of green companies are highlighted as to their leading green practices that are changing industry (Patagonia, Herman Miller, Interface, The Body Shop, Whole Foods, Ben & Jerry's).

If you are looking for detailed case studies or more systematic, in-depth strategies of how to pursue any one of these directions (ie: green building design or sustainable product innovation), then other books are better ("Green To Gold" or "Dancing with the Tiger"). Additionally, Green Business is a marvelous book to introduce students from six grade to college age on green principles as they relate to companies and communities. Every public library should have this reference - whose color photos are quite inviting to the average reader.

Frontiers of Sustainability: Environmentally Sound Agriculture, Forestry, Transportation, and Power Production

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Frontiers of Sustainability: Environmentally Sound Agriculture, Forestry, Transportation, and Power Production
Roger Dower
Manufacturer: Island Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1559635460

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The United States is the world's biggest consumer of natural resources and its biggest polluter. With the U.S. economy expected to grow by 25% in the next decade alone, the costs to Americans-and to everyone else in the world-will increase substantially if we do not find a way to live and work sustainably.

Building on the recommendations of the President's Council for Sustainable Development, researchers at the World Resources Institute have developed a feasible and concrete plan for achieving sustainable development in the United States. Frontiers of Sustainability presents the first practical vision of a sustainable future for the United States and the steps needed to get there.

Authors examine the environmental performance and trends in four key economic sectors: agriculture, electricity generation, transportation, and pulp and paper manufacturing. They map out and explore the implications of potentially dangerous trends and developments, and detail methods for reducing or managing emergent threats. Each chapter sets forth a technologically feasible vision of the future in which the unwanted trends we see unfolding now are reversed.

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Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories unpacks the complex and crucial debates surrounding sustainable design to deliver a compelling manifesto for change, at a time of looming ecological crisis, mounting environmental legislation and limited sustainable design progress.

This is a book about sustainable design, by the leading sustainable design thinkers, for creative practitioners of all disciplines–professionals, students and academics. This challenging book provides the reader with a rich resource of future visions, critical propositions, creative ideas and design strategies for working towards a sustainable tomorrow, today.

Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories boldly presents alternative understandings of sustainable design, to curate a challenging, sometimes uncomfortable and always provocative, collection of essays by some of the world’s leading sustainable design thinkers. The result is an authoritative anthology that reinvigorates the culture of critique that in previous years has empowered design with the qualities of social, environmental and economic revolution.

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Investors have lost a great deal of money for two reason: market turbulence and their belief in investing dogma promulgated by Wall Street such as the buy-and-hold idea. Chipping was written by a noted professor of finance at Northeastern University. It offers a new approach to stock trading that upsets old dogma and which offers investors an opportunity to act in a manner similar to the specialist at the New York Stock Exchange.

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Enjoy it ! Practice it !!.......2003-07-15

The book is easy to read while explaining a great way to trade stocks. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading it. It is a totally different approach to investing in the stock market, removing dangerous emotions. The author explains the chipping concept very well across different dimensions - stocks, mutual funds (basket of stocks) and explains very well the 'nirvana of chipping'. I have extended the learning in real life and made some decent returns. I like the chipping method, since it shatters many beliefs in stock market investing and it is different from the contrarian invest approach. It is a great book to read and learn a new technique of investing. Enjoy reading the book and don't stop there! Practice it!!

Save Your Money.......2003-03-23

As an experienced investor & trader, I am always on the look-out for any profitable trading advice or methodology. So, I was hopeful when I purchased Chipping that I'd learn something new.

By the time I got to the end of the book, I had greater confidence in flipping a coin for stock decisions than the advice given in this book. More specifically, when you isolate his decision-making, there is simply nothing there - as an example, he kind of thought the Japanese Yen had fallen far enough, so he went long. You've got to be kidding!! And it was the same for all of his examples.

I didn't find a shred of useful investment analysis, insight, or decision-making in Platt's "method". It was mind-boggling that he was risked real money on stock trades with such flimsy justification for buying at the prices he did.

I read lots of investment books, and this one is quite a disappointment. It seems the author doesn't even realize how random his investment results were over his 2-month track record, or the stock price correlation with the general market.

I predict the author will implode with any downtrending market.

Chipping Breaks New Ground.......2003-01-02

As a professional money manager and investor I have read scores of books and articles on how to invest. For the most part all of them repeat the same ideas over and over again. Harlan Platt's new book on the counter intuitive practice of Chipping is an insightful treatise on how to take advantage of stock market over reactions through short term trading. Professor Platt breaks new ground by saying that you don't need to work on Wall Street or consume reams of data to make money in stocks. Instead he articulates a simple strategy requiring discipline and steady profit taking to compile above average returns with below market risk. For its sheer innovativeness, and common sense logic on how the market works, this book is a must read.

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Very useful book!

good informative book

Field Grown Cut Flowers: A Practical Guide and Sourcebook : Commercial Field Grown Fresh and Dried Cut Flower Production
Alan B. Stevens
Manufacturer: Avatar's World
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Flowers for Sale: Growing and Marketing Cut Flowers : Backyard to Small Acreage (A Bootstrap Guide)

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ASIN: 096530650X

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FIELD GROWN CUT FLOWERS:A Practical Guide & Sourcebook by Alan Stevens, Ph.D., is a collaboration between the author, a 26 year veteran of commercial and academic floriculture, and John S. Hurd, a Wisconsin farmer who began growing flowers experimentally in 1990 when the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture started investigating commercial floriculture as a crop option for the state's family farms.

FIELD GROWN CUT FLOWERS provides a wealth of down-to-earth advice on planting, cultivating, and harvesting flower crops. There is detailed coverage on the post-havest handling of fresh-cut flowers and on drying methods for a variety of everlastings, also a practical discussion of business and marketing options for flower growers, including farmer's markets and pick-you-own operations and mail order.

The practical information and hands-on focus derived from the real-world experiences of a successful flower grower make this book a real resource for anyone interested in the art and science of flower production.

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Very useful book!.......2006-02-01

This is a great resource for anyone interested in cut flower farming. It goes more into the business management aspect that you don't find in a lot of cut flower books. It's an easy reading book that is full of valuable information!

good informative book.......2001-03-09

this book contains alot of really good information to get you started. it has really been helpful. I especially liked the case histories of actual farmers/growers doing this.

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Responsible for training all corporate trainers at Xerox Corporation, Jolles offers a down-to-earth, instructive look at teaching and training techniques which can be used in any professional, business or corporate seminar, workshop or training program. Covers a wide range of topics including course preparation, questioning methods, pacing for dynamic presentation, using visual aids, maintaining interest, giving feedback, evaluation and support. Features numerous anecdotes and tricks of the trade.

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The Trainer's Guide to Training Most new trainers and presenters know all they need to know about their chosen subject. Unfortunately, few of them actually know how to present what they know. For more than a decade, Robert Jolles's How to Run Seminars and Workshops has taught tens of thousands of people how to sell, teach, stand up, and deliver an effective training session on almost any subject in almost any setting. This new Third Edition updates this classic guide for anyone who has to get up and move an audience. Just as he did in the book's previous editions, Jolles-former head of Xerox's world-renowned ""train the trainer"" program-shares proven, effective techniques for winning over an audience, holding their interest, conveying important information, and moving that audience to take action! For seasoned pros, this is an invaluable tool for becoming a world-class seminar and workshop leader. For novices, it's a step-by-step self-teaching guide that provides the confidence and the techniques speakers need to survive and thrive in front of an audience. Packed with straightforward, trustworthy advice, this reliable resource covers all the bases for today's professional trainers and speakers, including research and preparation, questioning techniques, pacing, visual aids, evaluation and support, feedback, and more: Creating your own seminar business Recognizing different personalities and types of behavior Training groups with diverse needs On-site preparations Maintaining the audience's interest The latest technology and visual aids Giving feedback and coaching Presenting your best self to the audience Developing a training staff And, most important, how to sell your message Trusted by thousands of professional trainers for the latest tactics and practices in seminar and workshop leadership, How to Run Seminars and Workshops, Third Edition is the ultimate guide for anyone who makes a living sharing what they know with others.

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A must read for training and presentations!.......2007-09-09

Robert Jolles describes all of the steps in running your own workshops and seminars or working in the training department. Writing your own book. Developing a process of training that helps the trainer and the audience. Visual aid management. Trainee evaluation. All of the steps are in a simple, easy to read book. There are also parts of the book that will help develop and improve skills for sales professionals.

to-the-point and well structured.......2007-03-12

The book is practical, clear and well written. The writer is clearly very experienced in the field. I like his matter of fact approach with a dry sense of humour.

Not as helpful as the title suggests.......2006-07-05

I bought this book hoping to learn one new thing - I don't want 'tricks' or 'secrets' and I don't need to impress anyone - just facilitate seminars which are effective and enjoyable for the participants. I searched for an idea, process or new way of thinking that I could use, modify and apply in my own work. Sadly, it wasn't there for me. The style and content is not consistent with the title. The style is over-confident - the "know-it-all" style, characteristic of some American texts. The author presenting his opinions as fact. There's no doubt, no alternatives, just do it my way and it will be 'right'. Apart from this approach, some of the content is unhelpful at best. For example his comments (opinions) on how to prepare and use visuals in presentations reiterates the worst habits - more bullet points! As the title suggests the author is writing for people who already know something about this well-worn subject, I would have appreciated buying something more original, less emphatic and better written. I regret buying it.

A MUST READ FOR SALES TRAINERS.......2004-05-19

From Joe Catal, author of the book "Telesales Tips From The Trenches".
As a national sales trainer who teaches people how to sell by phone, this book is an incredible read. There's a huge difference in telling someone a sales technique and teaching that technique. The book covers every situataion you may encounter and answers it on a psychological and practical level. I consider myself a very good public speaker and my evaluations normally come back as excellent. After reading this book, I had to rate my seminar a C+. If you've been struggling with your training this book will be a Godsend for you. I'd like to personally thank the author for teaching me the right way to give a seminar. This is a must read, and I'd be shocked if you read this book and your seminar didn't improve 100%.

The BEST!!!.......2004-01-26

After receiving this book I read it straight through in 2 days. Absolutely the best information for any trainer. Robert does a tremendous job of detailing just about everything a trainer needs to know. I highly recommend this book. I also purchased 2 other books at the same time - I probably won't even read those now. Get it - you WILL enjoy it!

How to Run a Successful Meeting in Half the Time: How to Have a Successful Meeting in Half the Time

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A LOT better that I expected!

How to Run a Successful Meeting in Half the Time: How to Have a Successful Meeting in Half the Time
Frank
Manufacturer: Pocket
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0671726013

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A LOT better that I expected!.......2003-01-11

This is a surprisingly useful book. It is a quick read (about an hour or two); the basic format is a question, answer, and illustrative anecdote. I was pleased with the stories presented in the book and picked up a number of pointers. While the book starts out a bit on the obvious side (Q: When should you call a meeting? A: When a meeting is the best way to achieve your objective.), it moves into some though provoking issues such as dealing with interruptions, staggering attendance for optimum use of peoples' time, how to deal with those who want to go into depth on everything, etc. While some of the material on audio/visual material is amusingly out of date, the principles behind them are sound. The corporate world would be better off if everyone read and applied the principles found in this book.

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How To Run A Meeting
Powers
Manufacturer: Franklin Watts Inc
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JD3FZK

How to Run a Great Workshop: The Complete Guide to Designing & Running Brilliant Workshops & Meetings

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How to Run a Great Workshop: The Complete Guide to Designing & Running Brilliant Workshops & Meetings
Nikki Highmore Sims
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How to Run a Successful Meeting - In 1/2 the Time

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How to Run a Successful Meeting - In 1/2 the Time
Milo O. Frank
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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How to Run Better Business Meetings: A Reference Guide for Managers

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How to Run Better Business Meetings: A Reference Guide for Managers
3M Meeting Management Team
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
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Binding: Hardcover

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The first book of how to run a meeting
David Guy Powers
Manufacturer: F. Watts
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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THE FIRST BOOK OF HOW TO RUN AN MEETING
David Guy Powers
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How to run a great user conference. (Tutorial): An article from: Soft-Letter

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How to run a great user conference. (Tutorial): An article from: Soft-Letter

Manufacturer: Soft-letter
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Soft-Letter, published by Soft-letter on December 19, 1994. The length of the article is 466 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: How to run a great user conference. (Tutorial)
Publication: Soft-Letter (Newsletter)
Date: December 19, 1994
Publisher: Soft-letter
Volume: v11 Issue: n14 Page: p5(2)

Article Type: Tutorial

Distributed by Thomson Gale

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How to run a meeting
C. F Bentley
Manufacturer: Coles
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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This book enhances the reader's opportunity for career success by targeting fundamental skills. Advancing Your Career provides solid information for those looking to advance their careers and/or contribute to the growth of their companies. Covering topics such as managing conflict, decision making and problem solving and networking and mentoring, this is the perfect reference for those currently in the workforce as well as for those learning about and preparing to enter the workforce.

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This manual is to be used in accompaniment with Financial Literacy by Kenneth Kaminsky. Included in Financial Literacy are hundreds of examples and solved problems, as well as several hundred exercises. Solutions Manual for Financial Literacy includes the answers to these exercises.

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When the Pentagon releases the biggest computer contract in history for bids, it gets everyone in Washington's attention, from the myriad computer services companies to the President of the United States. The multi-billion dollar NMS (Navy Material System) could sway political fortunes, make or break careers, and will serve to energize the FBI in its quest to uncover industry corruption. The political maneuvering, business posturing and personal vendettas surrounding NMS create a complex mosaic of intrigue, boardroom struggles and political chicanery at the highest levels of government. Not to mention the sex, drugs and industriual espionage that are intertwined as the proposals move from initial submittal to BAFO (Best And Final Offer) to award and protest.

Prophets With Honour: A Documentary History of Lekhotla LA Bafo (New History of Southern Africa Series)

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Prophets With Honour: A Documentary History of Lekhotla LA Bafo (New History of Southern Africa Series)
Robert R. Edgar
Manufacturer: Ravan Pr of South Africa
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The Story Of Lucifer's Daughter: Short Stories

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The Story Of Lucifer's Daughter: Short Stories
Tamika Bafo
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0595381057

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At five, she had seen more than any five year old her age. From her father's many infidelities to her mother's tears, what more could she possibly go through? The Story of Lucifer's Daughter tells of lies, domestic abuse, a mother's love and the ultimate betrayal. Will the young child survive a life of heart-ache and pain? Could the child survive constantly entering into a war zone without a weapon? Will the mother get over losing one of the most precious things in her life?

Will the father get what he Deserves…

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