Degree in Sustainable Business for Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI (2002) and served as Program Director until 2015. Tueth consults with organizations on sustainable business and has given keynote presentations throughout the U.S. and Japan. Tueth has also led college field courses in resource management of national parks for 12 summers, which had provided him with the opportunity to travel six times to Denali, Wrangell–St. Elias, and Kenai Fjords National Parks in Alaska. Tueth is married and has two daughters and now lives on the Oregon Coast.
Acknowledgments
The author thanks
The Steelcase Foundation for its gracious and generous support of this project.
Former Aquinas College President C. Edward Balog for his continuous leadership, support, and confidence.
Student worker Mariel Borgman for her assistance during the completion of this work.
His longtime friend Jim for inspiration in the earliest stages of this project.
His wife, Maggie, for her patience and support during the many months of work that spilled into their private time and for her countless hours of editing and advisement.
Contents
Chapter 1Houston, We Have a Problem
1.1Our Early Approach to Mounting Problems
1.3Early Visionaries and the Resistance to Change
1.4Do Current Free-Market Mechanisms Help?
1.6Are the Results Worth the Effort?
Chapter 2Selecting a Design Consultant
2.1The Problem with Stewardship
2.2Naturally Our Best Foot Forward
2.3Pernicious Material Processes
2.4Nature’s Path of Production
2.7Following Nature’s Energy Path
2.8Other Sun-Powered Opportunities
2.9Envision a Sun-Powered Human Society
2.10Cutting Our Nuclear Power Losses
2.11The Advantages of Local Energy Production
2.13Innovations Solving Multiple Problems
3.2Social Value — The Short Post on the Three-Legged Stool
3.10Intelligent Building Design
3.11Urgent Challenges, Appropriate Remedies
3.12Early Organizational Change
3.15Staff Roles in the Transition
Chapter 4Businesses Taking Care of Business
4.1United States For-Profit Companies
4.2European For-Profit Companies
4.3Caribbean and South American For-Profit Companies
4.4Australian For-Profit Companies