Portland, Oregon, small businesses, what’s your experience with implementing sustainable practices? Share the story of your small business by contributing a chapter to “The Portland Bottom Line: Practices for Your Small Business from America’s Hotbed of Sustainability”.
Co-edited by yours truly and Megan Strand, “The Portland Bottom Line” is a collaborative exploration of sustainable practices for small businesses. More than 150 small-business people from Portland highlight how small businesses can innovate to put people before profit, be good to the ecosystem, and prosper.
Each short, 400-word essay highlights one actionable idea, valuable practice, practical tip, or actionable advice with demonstrated triple bottom line impact that any small business can implement tomorrow. Topics in 12 sections range from employee engagement, to sustainable design, to managing change.
100% of profits from this book will go to a Portland community organization selected by the contributors.
Be a co-author of “The Portland Bottom Line”!
Book promo
Many tout Portland, Oregon, as an authority on sustainability. Progressive urbanism and land-use. Alternative transportation. Environmental policy. Livability. But what about business? How do local companies measure up on sustainability? What cutting-edge sustainable practices have proven to work in Portland’s small businesses?
Co-edited by Peter Korchnak and Megan Strand, “The Portland Bottom Line: Practices for Your Small Business from America’s Hotbed of Sustainability” is a collaborative exploration of sustainable practices for small businesses. More than 150 small-business people from Portland share their experiences with sustainability in their companies. Each short essay highlights one actionable idea, valuable practice, practical tip, or actionable advice with demonstrated triple bottom line impact that any small business can implement tomorrow.
“The Portland Bottom Line” explores how small businesses can effectively and efficiently shift toward sustainability and thrive. Contributions highlight how small businesses can innovate to put people before profit, be good to the ecosystem, and prosper. Every page presents specific benefits that sustainability brings to small business operations, community, and the environment.
Contributors will collectively choose a local community organization which supports the launch and growth of small businesses or social ventures to receive 100% of net profit from the sales of “The Portland Bottom Line”.
Look for “The Portland Bottom Line” in November 2010 at your favorite online bookseller.
“The Portland Bottom Line” project
The purpose of “The Portland Bottom Line” is to share sustainable business practices from small businesses in Portland, Oregon  with small businesses around the U.S. and beyond.
The book has two main sources of inspiration:
- Crowdsourcing projects IÂ participated in as a contributor.
- The desire to share the best of what Portland’s small businesses have to offer in sustainable practices. to the first paragraph of the book’s description above.
The project first saw the light of day at the 2nd Beyond 2020 Sustainability Unconference, on January 21st, 2010, where I presented it at a session as a concept, to get feedback and gauge interest.
Together with the unconference, “The Portland Bottom Line” is one of my passion projects.
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