Global Sustainability Initiatives

The journey towards a sustainable world is our greatest challenge. This book includesreports, analysis, and discussion of cutting-edge approaches to incorporatingsustainability importantly in the mix of organizational strategic elements. It includesexamples of zero-footprint production facilities, leveraging environmental and socialopportunities by projects, examining theories of excellence in sustainability throughappreciative inquiry, social entrepreneurship, closed-loop supply chain managementincluding reverse flows of products returned by end users, using triple bottom-linemeasures of success implemented in various societal and political contexts, implementingenvironmentally positive green technologies, new visions for making sustainabilitysustainable, and innovations in diffusing learning throughout an organization's web ofstakeholders and admirers. Examples and cases are drawn from business, government, and not-for-profit sectors and intraandinter-sectoral partnerships in the US, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and Spain. Notable focal cases include theairline industry, with its emerging space-rich aerotropolises as potentially sustainable communities and higher education.These are at times supported by interviews that bring into focus positive learning experiences and high-point stories.