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Fundamentals of Intelligent Sustainable Business
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9,909 students

Fundamentals of Intelligent Sustainable Business

A 100-year guide for growing sustainable business
Highest Rated
Created byMatthew Tueth
Last updated 12/2024
English

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

Course content

5 sections • 24 lectures • 3h 56m total length

  • What to expect from this course9:57

    This lecture introduces the instructor and summaries the course content and the outcomes the student can expect from taking this course. A description of the type of student who is best matched with this course is also included.

  • Air, food, and smart phones - Who's to thank?6:17

    Students will become familiar with a number of vital benefits for humans provided solely by a healthy natural world business community. They will begin to understand some of the differences and failures of common human business practices when compared to natural world business systems.

  • How the world works.....except for humans8:46

    Students will learn how human industrial processes routinely operate quite differently that all other business done on the planet. We will discuss fugitive persistent toxins and how these dangerous materials end up in the food we eat, water we drink, and air we breath. Students will also understand the nature of these toxins and how only a few molecules of the substances often are responsible for initiating the cancer process or other serious health effects inside our bodies.

  • Cost externalization - Spreading the pain and not the gain9:55

    Rarely does the price you pay for something equal its cost. This lecture explains how we routinely pay a portion of other people's bills and how much of the cost of what we purchase is paid by others as well. This process of cost externalization constantly influences our purchasing patterns, overall health, and quality of life.

  • Persistent toxins - powerful and insidious13:36

    Chemicals that cause birth defects, organ failures, and cancer are tasteless, odorless, and invisible. This lecture describes the major types of persistent toxins and how they needlessly get into the air, water, and food and how they degrade the quality of our lives.

  • Crude oil, coal, and natural gas - painted into an energy corner9:24

    Students will understand the major advantages and disadvantages of the major fossil fuels technology from a business and personal perspective.

  • Nuclear power.....a safe 93 million miles away7:35

    Students will understand how nuclear power plants work as well as the advantages and disadvantages of fission nuclear power from a business and personal prospective.

  • Climate change sensibility9:53

    Students will become familiar with the natural global climate change process as well as the likelihood that humankind influences future global climate. Timely human actions that would significantly reduce the risk of man further affecting climate change are considered particularly because of their numerous positive secondary effects.

  • Our declining food systems12:46

    Students will come to understand the vital role of food production and the myriad of negatives associated with our current petroleum-based, mechanized agricultural system. They will realize the importance a healthy and fecunt food supply plays for each of our own lives and for incalculable generations to come.

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 exposes the hidden and serious problems of current business, outlines a revolutionary redesign for continuously profitable, healthy, durable, and community-supporting commerce, and then prepares the student to reform existing organizations. 24 learning sessions engage a variety of topics that are fundamental to potent sustainable business. Examples of the topics include include the myth of today's recycling systems, the insidious and mostly unintentional poisoning of communities, and the misrepresentation of climate change by both sides of the debate. No business issue is beyond scrutiny and all suggested changes are solidly supported. You will learn about the components of the brilliant new comprehensive design for 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 begin to develop the ability to apply profitable and paradigm-changing business practices in a variety of business settings. In the end, you will have an intensely positive professional vision and actionable competency that will prove more and more valuable as you move through your business career. This revolutionary message has been categorized as inspired, timeless, provocative, distinguished, paradigm-busting and the "gold standard" in sustainable business design. You can expect your current understanding of the business world to change dramatically!

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 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 drastically inferior versions of sustainable business
  • This course does not provide techniques to disengenuously market existing organizations as reputable sustainable businesses

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