The Path to Sustainable Business: Environmental Frameworks, Practices, and Related Tools

In the late 1980s, the concept of sustainable development gained prominence as a perspective for understanding the changing dynamic of business and the environment. It is a term that has come to mean different things to different people. Excerpt UVA-ENT-0033 The Path to Sustainable Business: Environmental Frameworks, Practices, and Related Tools According to a 1989 National Academy of Engineering report by Robert Ayres, 94% of the material used in industrial production is thrown away before the product is made. Sustainability is an injunction not to satisfy ourselves by impoverishing our successors. —Robert Solow . . .