Work Like Nature: Sustainability lessons from ecosystems for your job or business

— —

Lea Elliott

Work Like Nature

Name: Work Like Nature
Price: 30.95 AUD
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9780995200104

Sustainability lessons from ecosystems for your job or business

Lea Elliott

$30.95

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We will update you on expected arrival time to us. If this delay is too long, please let us know within 2 business days and we can give you options regarding cancelling or adjusting your order. More details on cancelling your order can be found in our Terms of Trade.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Naturehood Ecological Consulting
07 June 2016

Development economics; Conservation of the environment; Sustainability

Do you want to take action at work that will benefit you, your job and your community as much as it helps the environment? Lea Elliott's Work Like Nature presents lessons from nature to help you make sense of sustainability and start making a difference.

These ecosystem ideas are illustrated through inspiring stories from Vancouver-area green innovators. See how these bright thinkers from a variety of disciplines work like nature to benefit the environment and, surprisingly, to win at their job or business.

You'll see how a city secures its energy needs, a community designs a dynamic waterfront, and an entrepreneur protects our oceans. You'll also discover how a diversity of flowers growing in a blueberry field fortifies our food supply, how turning manure into renewable natural gas can in fact protect our water, and how views of nature make us healthier. Exercises and examples in each chapter will help you apply these lessons to your own work.

By simply looking outside, you can gain insights to help you protect the environment, grow the green economy, build resilient communities and do work you're proud of.

If you enjoyed Hawken's Ecology of Commerce, Braungart and McDonough's Cradle to Cradle or Benyus's Biomimicry you'll love Work Like Nature.

By: Lea Elliott
Imprint: Naturehood Ecological Consulting
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 191g
ISBN: 9780995200104
ISBN 10: 0995200106
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 07 June 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lea Elliott is an environmental solutions consultant, biologist, writer and educator with over 20 years of experience in the environmental field and an M.Sc. in Resource Management and Environmental Studies. As the Principal of Naturehood Ecological Consulting Lea helps individuals and teams make innovative and practical environmental change in their work. Lea specializes in turning lessons from nature, scientific research and case studies into relevant and effective environmental action for professionals. Lea got her start as a field biologist where she studied how forestry, tourism and agriculture affect our forests, oceans and wildlife. Working with local municipalities, Lea has helped city staff conserve land, integrate nature with our communities and use greener practices. She's worked with Vancouver teachers as a Scientist in Residence to give them the tools and ideas they need to inspire the next generation of green innovators. When she's not working, Lea and her family enjoy being outside. They marvel at the chickadees on insect patrol in their apple trees, the sweetness of carrots pulled from the garden and the bounty of ocean life during spring runs of Pacific Herring.

Reviews for Work Like Nature: Sustainability lessons from ecosystems for your job or business

""Lea Elliott's book is both inspirational and practical, full of great ideas for transforming our urgent need to work with nature into actual change."" ---KRISTIN OHLSON, author of The Soil Will Save Us ""I highly recommend Lea Elliott's new book to anyone looking to up their game as a sustainability change agent, educator, or practitioner. Her six lessons from nature contain abundant new ideas about how to accelerate and scale sustainability practice...and are fun to read as well!"" ---DR. STEVE SCHEIN, author of A New Psychology for Sustainability Leadership: The Hidden Power of Ecological Worldviews