Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Discounts for End-of-Year Green Books

It's time to plan for a greener 2017 at your museum.

Both The Green Museum and Environmental Sustainability at Historic Sites are available at a discount: 35% off from Rowman & Littlefield.  Just use the code RLWEB3516 at checkout.

If you would like additional, more personal support during your green journey, please consider joining a Green Team for Green Leaders, or contacting me for private coaching work. 

You know where to find me: sarah@sustainablemuseums.net and www.sustainablemuseums.net.


Go Green and Prosper in 2017.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Book Review: Nonprofit Guide to Going Green

This is a guidebook to keep within arm's reach. From "Questions to Ask a Recycler", and "Evaluating a Carbon Offset Provider", to step-by-step planning for "Green Press Events", you'll find the nitty-gritty you need to quickly make strides in greening your nonprofit's work. 

Any book has to choose a focus - philosophy or how-to, for example. And this one is the go-to for how-to.  It is so complete that it took three editors and over 30 authors to provide all the information here. It was written under the auspices of GreenNonprofits.Org to give the nonprofit sector "practical advice it that will lead to concrete action...that will positively affect the environment. Just as corporations and individuals must, the nonprofit sector must take its place in the green movement.

For those of you just starting out, the "Nonprofit Office Audit" chapter may be the most helpful.  For those with more mileage, it may be time to read "Creating Your Green Marking and Communications Plan". 

I can't cover the 400+ pages here, but here is a chapter listing. As soon as you're done reading this list, go ahead and get two copies - one for your desk and one to share with colleagues.  It's a great investment.

Part I     GREEN MANAGEMENT
Chapter 1  Raising Green by Being Green
Chapter 2  The Green Bottom Line
Chpater 3  Developing a Green Management and Employee Plan
Chapter 4  Creating Your Green Marketing and Communications Plan
Chpater 5  Green Events
Chapter 6  Greening Your Organization's Travel

Part II    THE GREEN OFFICE
Chapter 7  Building Green and Greening Your Building
Chapter 8  Green Purchasing
Chapter 9  Making the Move to Green Transportation
Chapter 10 Green Office Practices
Chapter 11 Green Technology Solutions

Part III   ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY
Chapter 12  Being Green
Chapter 13  Closing the Loop
Chapter 14  Water-Wise Actions in a Warming World
Chapter 15  Green Energy for Your Nonprofit
Chapter 16  Advocacy for Green Nonprofits

Part IV  GREEN NONPROFIT OFFICE AUDIT

Part V   CASE STUDIES then Appendieces, etc.

This is the tool to make your fall the greenest season this year -  Go on! Here's the link!

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Get Your Green Training


There’s a lot of good material out there for learning about greening your museum. Here are some resources:

Websites
The American Association of Museums PIC Green website (Professional Interest Committee on Green) http://www.aam-us.org/getinvolved/comm/green.cfmIn fact, it has much more of what you see here – be sure to check it out.

The Green Museums Initiative of the California Association of Museums
http://www.calmuseums.info/gmi/index.html

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s website on preservation and environmental sustainability http://www.preservationnation.org/issues/sustainability/

The Association of Zoos and Aquariums Scientific Advisory Group
http://www.aza.org/green-practices-scientific-advisory-group/

bMuse: Sustainable Museums is my website: http://www.bmuse.net/051810/greenmuseums_home.html
Greener Museums is Rachel Madan’s website for her work in the UK and abroad: http://www.greenermuseums.org/

Training
April 19th, 2011. The Green Museum (online conference) with AAM, AASLH & AAM’s PIC Green.
http://www.aam-us.org/getinvolved/learn/green.cfm

The Museum Studies programs at The George Washington University http://www.gwu.edu/~mstd/ and The Univesity of Delaware http://www.udel.edu/museumstudies/

Books
Brophy, Sarah and Elizabeth Wylie. Green Museums: A Primer on Environmental Practice. Lantham, MD: AltaMira Press. 2008. http://www.altamirapress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0759111642&thepassedurl=[thepassedurl]

Carroon, Jean. Sustainable Preservation: Greening Existing Buildings. New York: Wiley Books on Sustainable Design. 2010.
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470169117.html

Chamberlain, Gregory. Greener Museums: Sustainability, Society, and Public Engagement. London: Museum-ID. 2011. http://www.museum-id.com/books.asp

Madan, Rachel. Sustainable Museums: Strategies for the 21st Century. Contributed cases from around the world. London: Museums, Etc. 2011. http://museumsetc.com/products/sustainable-museums

If you have anything to add, please let me know and I"ll collect them for the next training update.