Summary: Getting Green Done E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Political Book Summaries
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 18

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

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The must-read summary of Auden Schendler's book: “Getting Green Done: Hard Truth from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution”.

This complete summary of "Getting Green Done" by Auden Schendler, a climate activist and businessman, gives an overview of the author's inside look at the green movement. He examines how individual actions do not necessarily make much of a difference as we work towards our aims to reduce emissions, but that we should be realistic about the challenge and encourage businesses to be more environmentally-friendly.
Added-value of this summary:• Save time• Understand the green movement and the challenges it faces• Expand your knowledge of politics and environmental activism
To learn more, read "Getting Green Done" and discover why our current approach to climate change is not effective, and what we should do instead.

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Book Presentation: Getting Green Done by Auden Schendler

Book Abstract

“Green” has hit the mainstream and business consultants are calling the movement easy and profitable. In reality, though, many green-leaning businesses, families, and governments are still fiddling while the planet burns. Why? Because implementing sustainability is brutally difficult. In Getting Green Done, Auden Schendler, a sustainable business foot soldier with over a decade’s worth of experience, offers an inside look at the green movement. The consultants, he argues, are clueless. We’ll only solve our problems if we’re realistic about the challenge of climate change. Schendler shares stories from the frontlines of battling climate change along with inspiration for making the real changes needed to save the environment.

About the Author

Auden Schendler is an avid outdoorsman and the executive director of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company. He has also worked in the corporate sustainability department at the Rocky Mountain Institute. His work has been published in Harvard Business Review, The Los Angeles Times, and Salon.com. In 2006, he was named a global warming innovator by Time magazine.

Summary of Getting Green Done (Auden Schendler)

Trench Warfare, Not Surgery

Green isn’t glamorous, sexy or fun. The people who work hard, day in and day out, getting their hands dirty in the environmental fields, are realists. At the other extreme are the “PowerPoint experts” who claim to have all the answers, while never having insulated a crawlspace, replaced a toilet, or baked a pie.

“Realism is important because our problems are more urgent than ever.” We need to make real progress because climate change is happening now.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its fourth report in November 2007. The panel found that unless immediate actions were taken to reduce greenhouse gases, global climate disaster was imminent. The report wasn’t really news, but the tone of the report was quite serious.