Sustainability Handbook

The Sustainability Handbook: The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibility by William R. Blackburn provides a blueprint for how organizations of all sizes can reach or exceed economic, social, and environmental excellence.

Published by the Environmental Law Institute in 2007, the 800-page handbook offers a wide variety of practical approaches and tools for structuring, planning, and executing sustainability initiatives for businesses and nonprofits. The handbook includes:

• A model sustainability policy for organizations,
• Summaries of sustainability codes and tips on selecting them,
• Suggestions for dealing with stakeholders, and
• Sample metrics to quantify the impact of various initiatives

William Blackburn has worked in the area of corporate sustainability for several decades, and continues to provide guidance on the topic to companies, universities, governments, standards bodies and non-profit firms around the world.

The Handbook (ISBN 978-1-58576-102-9) is available through the Law Institute.