Sustainability: Essentials for Business

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I enjoyed reading the book. In need of a new edition - content and examples dated. References over a decade old.

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Perfect for the semester.

Sustainability, Essentials for Business is great tool to transform any company and any household. The books is full of examples and sources, a truly great finding.

A comprehensive overview and explanation of Sustainability and it's processes and potential solutions.

I thought based on the subtitle that this book would have a business focus - it would build the business case for sustainability or discuss some of the strategy or program implementation aspects of increasing sustainability. It didn't. If, like me, you have this as a course textbook with a business focus, drop the course.

I had to purchase this text as required reading for a class taught by Ms. Dhanda. First and foremost, I'm astounded that she convinced the school this course is relevant enough to be considered a management elective in the MBA program as it is essentially Global Warming 101.For background on Ms. Dhanda, 20% of one's grade in this class is based on a photo collage where the student is expected to take photos of "unsustainable" areas in one's community and corresponding "sustainable" solutions. This is a graduate MBA management course. Form your own opinion, but I have no idea how that was supposed to help me become a better manager.Second, the class is setup as a seminar and the first three reading assignments given to students for "discussion" during the first class are as follows:NYT article: Trump Critics on Climate Policy Hope Executives Can Sway HimChapter 1 of "The Triple Bottom Line: Does It All Add Up?" by John ElkingtonChapter 1 of "Natural Capitalism" by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter LovinsI have a really hard time with opening a seminar discussion so one-sided. Especially on such a controversial issue with clear room for debate on BOTH sides. The entire class is obviously based on the ASSUMPTION that global warming is both real AND bad. As an engineer, the complete lack of scientific data backing up the argument here makes it incredibly hard for me to even begin the discussion. For goodness sake how can you start a debate by going into it with a set outcome? I have NO issue with open discussion on such issues; please show me data and facts and sway my opinion, but do not force me to blindly swallow yours.Looking at the book itself it is setup in the following way:Part 1: Sustainability is Necessary, Take Our Word for ItPart 2: A list of "bad" technologies and industries and "better" alternativesPart 3: You should feel guilty, here's what you should be doingPart 4: Don't Worry, The Government Will Save UsMy review is based on Ms. Dhanda's syllabus, her first class assignment, and what I got out of this text. In my opinion it is an alarmist call to arms for technophobes everywhere who are against not just future human betterment but existing technologies today - technologies that have not just made improvements to our lives but saved millions of them.I have dropped the class and am returning this book. I hope all the students that have Ms. Dhanda as a teacher are able to form their own opinions without fear of a terrible grade from their professor, who shows obvious bias. In my opinion this text is not suitable for a scholastic platform and I hope in the future such opinion-based (and grossly off-topic) classes are eliminated from what should be curriculum focused on critical thinking versus brainwashing.