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"""In Ants, Galileo & Gandhi ... Sissel Waage ... and her preeminent group of contributors have carefully and persuasively found a balance capturing the essence of sustainability while at the same time identifying and assessing important lessons to be learned from their experience ... Anyone or any business seeking to begin, refine, or implement their sustainability-related business practices should have this book in their library"", Don Smith, Corporate Environmental Strategy Vol. 10 Issue 10, 2003 ""These are smart, detailed, in-the-trenches case studies of how companies align sustainability with business success, along with the scientific and societal rationale that amplify these initiatives' importance. Mainstream managers will find both guidance and inspiration"", The Green Business Letter, November 2003"

In Ants, Galileo & Gandhi ... Sissel Waage ... and her preeminent group of contributors have carefully and persuasively found a balance capturing the essence of sustainability while at the same time identifying and assessing important lessons to be learned from their experience ... Anyone or any business seeking to begin, refine, or implement their sustainability-related business practices should have this book in their library. -- Don Smith Corporate Environmental Strategy Vol. 10 Issue 10, 2003 These are smart, detailed, in-the-trenches case studies of how companies align sustainability with business success, along with the scientific and societal rationale that amplify these initiatives' importance. Mainstream managers will find both guidance and inspiration. The Green Business Letter, November 2003

In Ants, Galileo & Gandhi ... Sissel Waage ... and her preeminent group of contributors have carefully and persuasively found a balance capturing the essence of sustainability while at the same time identifying and assessing important lessons to be learned from their experience ... Anyone or any business seeking to begin, refine, or implement their sustainability-related business practices should have this book in their library , Don Smith, Corporate Environmental Strategy Vol. 10 Issue 10, 2003 These are smart, detailed, in-the-trenches case studies of how companies align sustainability with business success, along with the scientific and societal rationale that amplify these initiatives' importance. Mainstream managers will find both guidance and inspiration , The Green Business Letter, November 2003

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Sissel Waage is Director of the research programme at The Natural Step's US office. She has been working on sustainability, conservation and development issues for over ten years and has experience on three continents. Dr Waage has conducted research on a range of topics, including natural resource-based businesses and economies, community-based conservation, collaborative decision-making and consensus-building processes. Prior to joining The Natural Step, she worked with Sustainable Northwest and facilitated the establishment of a new community conservation-based developed organisation in rural north-eastern Oregon. Dr Waage has also served as a programme officer in the East and Southern Africa Programme of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), where she collaborated with public-sector and private-sector partners to design and manage conservation-based development projects. She has also worked at a forest research station and several other conservation and development organisations. Dr Waage completed her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College, in Massachusetts. She has also studied at the University of Oslo, in Norway, as a Fulbright Scholar, and at the National University of Singapore.

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