Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage

THE LEADING GUIDE TO DRIVING GROWTH AND PROFITS THROUGH GREEN STRATEGY NOW REVISED AND UPDATED

“No executive can afford to ignore the Green Wave sweeping the business world. This book shows how to make sustainability a core element of strategy and profit from it.”
CHAD HOLLIDAY, Chairman, DuPont

“Green to Gold provides the definitive thinking on how business leaders can address environmental issues.”
MICHAEL E. PORTER, Professor, Harvard Business School

“The future of our country depends on getting on a sustainable track . . . Green to Gold blazes a trail for businesses of all kinds to follow.”
MICHAEL MORRIS, CEO, American Electric Power

“Rich with both big-picture thinking and practical suggestions.”
LARRY LINDEN, Advisory Director, Goldman Sachs

“A compelling blueprint for how companies can address critical environmental problems.”
WILLIAM K. REILLY, former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

“Green to Gold is a must-read for the twenty-first-century CEO.”
TENSIE WHELAN, Executive Director, Rainforest Alliance

DANIEL C. ESTY is the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University and Director of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale (www.yale.edu/CBEY). Author or editor of nine books and dozens of articles, Dan is one of the world’s leading corporate environmental strategy experts with twenty years of experience working with companies of all sizes and across many industries worldwide. He served as a senior official at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the early 1990s and is presently Chairman of Esty Environmental Partners (www.EstyEP.com).

ANDREW S. WINSTON advises some of the world’s leading companies on how to profit from environmental thinking. He is also a highly respected and dynamic speaker, exploring the business benefits of going green with audiences around the world. Andrew’s earlier career included corporate strategy at Boston Consulting Group and management positions in marketing and business development at Time Warner and MTV. See http://www.andrewwinston.com for more information.