May 1, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute
Sustainable Consumption and Production: Strategies for Accelerating Positive Change, by Joel Makower and Deborah Fleischer, describes how grant makers can promote practices and products that are not harmful to the environment. Mr. Makower, founder of GreenBiz.com, a Web site focused on corporate environmental responsibility, in Oakland, Calif., and Ms. Fleischer, founder of Green Impact, an environmental consulting firm in Mill Valley, Calif., offer examples of successful projects, such as public-education campaigns to encourage people to buy environmentally friendly products, grass-roots organizing to advocate regulations requiring businesses to operate in ways that are more energy-efficient, and watchdog efforts to hold companies to environmental standards. The authors also discuss various ways through which foundations can adopt practices that benefit the environment, such as investing their assets in companies that do not violate environmental regulations. The report includes a list of nonprofit groups and foundations that are involved in projects to minimize the environmental harm caused by the production and use of commercial products.
Publisher: Environmental Grantmakers Association, 437 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022-7001; (212) 812-4260; fax (212) 812-4299; aducmanis@ega.org; http://www.ega.org; 69 pages; free for download from the association’s Web page
