Topics
Business
Environmental Policy
Presentations
Business, the Environment, & the Bottom Line
Green Consumers & "Sustainable Consumption"
Summary Profile
Joel Makower is a well-respected voice on business, the environment, and the bottom line. As a writer and consultant on corporate environmental practices, he has helped a wide range of companies align environmental responsibility with business success.
The Associated Press has called him "The guru of green business practices."
A former nationally syndicated columnist and lecturer on business environmental topics, Makower is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including Beyond the Bottom Line: Putting Social Responsibility to Work for Your Business and the World, about the profit and potential of socially responsible business practices; The E-Factor: The Bottom-Line Approach to Environmentally Responsible Business, on how companies are responding to environmental challenges in positive and profitable ways, and The Green Consumer, a best-selling guide to the environmental marketplace. He is also editor of The Green Business Letter, an award winning monthly newsletter on corporate environmental topics.
Makower is the president of Green Business Network, a nonprofit web publisher of environmental information for the mainstream business community and is a regular commentator on environmental topics for Marketplace, a nightly national business program on U.S. public radio.
