Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to derive operational principles from environmental ethics for business organizations to achieve sustainability. Design/methodology/approach – The paper analyses different levels on which business affects the natural environment. Individual biological...

The paper analyzes two major ways of aiming at ecological sustainability. One is represented by the green business movement while the other is represented by different models of the community economy (e.g. community‐supported agriculture). Ecological sustainability requires quantitative and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to derive operational principles from environmental ethics for business organizations to achieve sustainability. Design/methodology/approach – The paper analyses different levels on which business affects the natural environment. Individual biological...

Focuses on the basic concepts and principles of alternative economics; a new doctrine of economic thought centred around human communities and their natural environments. The ideas of Karl Polanyi, Ernst F. Schumacher, and Herman E. Daly are presented as the most important antecedents....