Fundamentals of Intelligent Sustainable Business
What you'll learn
- Understand the many hidden negative results of conventional business in terms of both energy and materials processing
- Re-imagine a system of profitable businesses delivering the goods and services we need with none of the hidden negatives that we do not want
- Understand the essential requirements for profitable, durable, and healthy businesses that consistently support their entire community thru time
- Draw insight from the most successful design consultant available and use that insight during the redesign of business process
- Develop effective and accurate systems that measure sustainable business progress within organizations over time
- Identify deceptive marketing techniques of impostor organizations that pose as legitimate practitioners of sustainable business
Requirements
- Any casual knowledge of business management, accounting, finance, and marketing will enhance the learning experience
- Any casual knowledge of natural world processes such as nutrient cycling or the interactions among species will enhance the learning experience
- Occasionally the instructor will suggest supplemental readings that will be appropriate either during or after the course experience
Description
This course outlines the hidden problems of business, discusses a revolutionary redesign for continuously profitable, healthy, durable, and community-supporting commerce, and then prepares the student to direct intelligent reform inside existing organizations. 24 focused learning sessions engage a wide variety of topics fundamental to potent sustainable business such as the myth of today's recycling systems and the misrepresentation of climate change by both sides of the debate. No business issue is beyond scrutiny and all conclusions are solidly supported. You will intuitively appreciate this brilliant new approach to business as well as the professional opportunities that await knowledgeable, creative, out-of-the-box thinkers and leaders in a variety of business sectors. During our time together, you will improve your ability to apply paradigm-changing business practices in a variety of business settings. In the end, you will have acquired an intensely positive professional vision and actionable competency that will prove more and more valuable as you move through your professional career.
Who this course is for:
- This course is best suited for open-minded students who are aware of at least some problems of business and are looking for a clear and practical solution to this dilemma
- This course will satisfy sustainable business participants who are want to learn the most potent version of this revolutionary movement
- This course is perfect for business professionals who are looking for the ability to direct the most sensible pathway to potent sustainable business
- This course is not a good fit for those expecting a rehash of currently popular but impotent versions of sustainable business
- This course does not provide techniques to disengenuously market existing organizations as reputable sustainable businesses
Course content
- Preview09:57
- Preview06:17
- 08:46How the world works.....except for humans
- 09:55Cost externalization - Spreading the pain and not the gain
- 13:36Persistent toxins - powerful and insidious
- 09:24Crude oil, coal, and natural gas - painted into an energy corner
- 07:35Nuclear power.....a safe 93 million miles away
- 09:53Climate change sensibility
- 12:46Our declining food systems
Instructor
![Matthew Tueth](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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- 122 Students
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Worked for the U.S. Forest Service and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for over 20 years. Earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Oklahoma State University in 2000. Designed and implemented the first Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Business degree program in the world in 2003 at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI. Chairperson for the Sustainable Business Department at Aquinas College for 11 years. Retired at the position of full professor and the Steelcase Professor of Sustainable Business. Traveled extensively throughout the state of Alaska, guiding six college field course through three national parks.