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Detail The Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years
Author : Yvon Chouinard
Pages : 160 pages
Publisher : Patagonia
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ISBN-10 : 0980122783
ISBN-13 : 9780980122787
Synopsis The Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years
The Responsible Company , by Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia, and Vincent Stanley, co-editor of its Footprint Chronicles, draw on the their 40 years' experience at Patagonia ? and knowledge of current efforts by other companies ? to articulate the elements of responsible business for our time. Patagonia, named by Fortune in 2007 as the coolest company on the planet, has earned a reputation as much for its ground-breaking environmental and social practices as for the quality of its clothes. In this exceptionally frank account, Chouinard and Stanley recount how the company and its culture gained the confidence, by step and misstep, to make its work progressively more responsible, and to ultimately share its discoveries with companies as large as Wal-Mart or as small as the corner bakery. In plain, compelling prose, the authors describe the current impact of manufacturing and commerce on the planet?s natural systems and human communities, and how that impact now forces