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Here is a book that provides an excellent framework for extracting unusual forms of innovation within your company. Below I have posted the book's content, which includes insights on the future of business and checklists for tranforming your company's operations into a sustainable enterprise.

'Ecomanagement: The Elmwood Guide to Ecological Auditing and Sustainable Business'

Written by Ernest Callenbach, Lenore Goldman, Fritjof Capra, and Rudiger Lutz, and Sandra Marburg.

You can purchase the book at Amazon

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ECOMANAGEMENT

How to plan a full ecological audit based on business, personnel, organizational, human, and psychological considrerations. Checklists dealing with questions of implementation with suggestions on how to set priorities.

CHECKLIST GUIDE FOR THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF BUSINESS

ENERGY AND MATERIALS: INFLOWS
CHECKLIST #1 ENERGY
CHECKLIST #2 MATERIALS

DESIGN, PROCESSING, AND MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS
CHECKLIST #3: PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
CHECKLIST #4 MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTION
CHECKLIST #5 RECYCLING

SALES/ MARKETING, VVASTE, AND EMISSION OUTFLOWS
CHECKLIST #6 MARKETING AND SALES
CHECKLIST #7 WASTES AND EMISSIONS

FINANCIAL, HUMAN RESOURCE, AND OTHER SUPPORT STRUCTURES
CHECKLIST #8 FINANCE
CHECKLIST #9 INVESTMENTS
CHECKLIST # 1 0 THE WORKPLACE
CHECKLIST #11 TRANSPORTATION
CHECKLIST # 1 2 THE PHYSICAL PLANT AND ITS ENVIRONS
CHECKLIST# 1 3 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RELATIONS

Read on for detailed descriptions for each chapter ...

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Domains of Community Development and Innovation

Regenerative Commerce is a system that is based on a broader understanding of what it means to develop technology and business. inKNOWvate proposes that, using these principles, a region's economic system can revitalize itself and perform beyond expectation.

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The following represent shifts in awareness of the models we use to create and innovate within enterprise. (Note that a shift means we are including new information that expands existing models and does not mean that we are replacing them.

A shift from:

* From Single ... To Triple Bottom Line (3E's) Management (evolved organizing STRUCTURES)

* From Building Mechanistic Systems ... To Growing Living Wholes (advanced technological PATTERN)

* From Linear Sequencing ... To Nonlinear Cyclic Closed Loops (integration of value-webbed PROCESSES)

inKNOWvate's long term objectives is to create a global network of innovation learning centers for business and community. Each interdependent center will incubate innovative technologies and companies that can work for a post-industrial, globally-conscious society. The concept known as 'Regenerative Commerce' will act as an integrating framework for incorporating principles of sustainable innovation for the realization of business products and services that work for the emerging global community.

RELATED CONCEPTS

1- Sustainable Design: Closed loop systems (4e's)
2- Development Principles: Metabolic Growth (Biomimicry) (Ecological) (Permaculture)
3- Distribution Methodology: Triple Bottom Line (3E's)
4- Regionalized Frameworks: Cellular Communities, Regional Conversation Word Map
5- Sustainable Enterprise: Considerations
6- Networked Communication Model: Concentrix Management

Guidelines for incorporating and managing principle-based enterprise:
Regenerative Commerce Presentation Slides

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