One billion beverage containers are used on a daily basis in the United States, with at least 600 million of them ending up in landfills. Even the 400 million that are recycled--at a great cost--are not accomplishing the task of helping the environment. This economic and environmental catastrophe cannot be solved by recycling programs. From his experience as a leader in the American consumer beverage industry and a researcher in Sweden, author Jack Buffington has developed a transformational solution that seeks to not just mitigate the environmental damage but jumpstart the economy while actually achieving zero waste.
The Recycling Myth tells the story of how our current environmental practices are unintentionally doing more harm than good and how we need to create a radically different supply chain of the future that must, as best as possible, copy the natural system of growth, decay, and regrowth, and discontinue a disastrous pattern of material design and use. Backed by irrefutable evidence, the book destroys our comfortable notions of the recycling status quo; explains why recycling will never work in the United States, despite decades of attempts; and introduces a new system that will actually work--without asking consumers to consume less.
Автор: Buffington Jack Название: Peak Plastic: The Rise or Fall of Our Synthetic World ISBN: 1440864160 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781440864162 Издательство: Bloomsbury Цена: 5198.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"Plastics " In the fifty years since Dustin Hoffman's character in The Graduate was instructed that this was the career field of the future, we have not been able to escape this ubiquitous but poorly understood material. Author Jack Buffington argues that the plastics crisis is careening toward a tipping point from which there will be no return. There is still time, however, to do something about this crisis if we have the imagination and the will to move away from the failed policies of the past.
This book is the first to propose a new model for linking our synthetic world to the natural one, rather than seeking to treat them as separate entities. The key is supply chain innovation. Buffington presents five market-based solutions based on this principle that will allow consumers to continue to use plastic, which has in many ways enabled our way of life. Alongside these proposed solutions, he also addresses the proliferation of plastic as we know it--growth that, if left unchecked, will lead to a "planetary crisis," according to the United Nations--and considers how the material itself might be adapted for a sustainable future.
Автор: Buffington Sherry D., Schwartz Marc W. Название: Power Shift: The New Rules of Engagement ISBN: 0986131407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780986131400 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2981.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Leaders and managers today are diligently searching for ways to fit the incoming workforce into the existing workplace, and get them to follow established protocol and perform as expected. The problem is, the new generations have little interest in playing by the old rules. They operate by a completely different set of rules sustained by deeply held core values which are sharply divergent from those of previous generations-and from workplace expectations . Though the ideals of youth mature over time, core values never change so, to get the best from the emerging workforce and meet organizational goals, the focus must shift from trying to change the people to changing the game. The small, incremental changes that once worked no longer get the desired results and it's unlikely they ever will because the values and mindset of newer generations are not creating a mere ripple; they are driving a tidal wave that's bringing with it a global power shift unlike any in recorded history. Power Shift prepares leaders and managers to ride that wave successfully. It provides an indepth examination of the factors leading to this great shift and the awareness, insights and tools for harnessing the energy and talents of the new workforce. This book presents models of companies that have embraced the new rules of engagement and experienced unprecedented growth and profits as a result. And it lays out a blueprint leaders can use to influence the direction of the inevitable power shift and ensure that their organization not only survives, but thrives.
Автор: Buffington Sherry Название: The 7 Essentials for Lasting Success ISBN: 0970892624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780970892621 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2234.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Sammons Judy Buffington Название: DOS Rios Memories ISBN: 0985135220 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780985135225 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2750.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the United States, higher rates of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans fail to graduate from high schools than Caucasians. Adams and Buffington-Adams identify persistent, institutional racism as the cause, and they stress the need for teachers to acknowledge the limitations of their own cultural lenses and to recognize the validity of others' views. Race and Pedagogy provides a retrospective glance at the authors' experiences within the Equity Group, an organization created to provide teachers with the opportunity to talk about their own racial, cultural, and language backgrounds in order to identify, examine, and fix the failings of the current educational system. Natural, relational, and sustainable approaches are recommended which will enable educators to create classrooms and schools in which all students, regardless of racial, ethnic, or linguistic identity, are welcomed, challenged, treasured, and able to be academically successful. Book recommended for scholars of education and race studies, as well as practitioners.
In A Sentimental Education for the Working Man Robert Buffington reconstructs the complex, shifting, and contradictory ideas about working-class masculinity in early twentieth-century Mexico City. He argues that from 1900 to 1910, the capital’s satirical penny press provided working-class readers with alternative masculine scripts that were more realistic about their lives, more responsive to their concerns, and more representative of their culture than anything proposed by elite social reformers and Porfirian officials. The penny press shared elite concerns about the destructive vices of working-class men, and urged them to be devoted husbands, responsible citizens, and diligent workers; but it also used biting satire to recast negative portrayals of working-class masculinity and to overturn established social hierarchies. In this challenge to the "macho" stereotype of working-class Mexican men, Buffington shows how the penny press contributed to the formation of working-class consciousness, facilitated the imagining of a Mexican national community, and validated working-class men as modern citizens.
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