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Name
  
Georg Winter


Role
  
Manager

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Books
  
Business and the Environment: A Handbook of Industrial Ecology with 22 Checklists for Practical Use and a Concrete Example of the Integrated System of Environmentalist Business Management (the Winter Model)

Georg Winter (born 1941 in Hamburg) is a German businessman, environmentalist and an advocate for sustainable business management.

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Life and work

He studied law in Neuchâtel, Paris and Hamburg, and earned a doctorate of law (1973). As CEO of his family's company, Ernst Winter & Sohn Norderstedt GmbH & Co, he made environmental issues a core objective. Georg Winter created the Winter Model, which defined environmental standards for companies. In 1984, he founded the Bundesdeutscher Arbeitskreis für Umweltbewusstes Management.

In 1987, he published his book Business and the environment (Das umweltbewusste Unternehmen), which has been translated into 30 languages.

In 1991, he founded the Internationale Netzwerk für Umweltbewusstes Management, and in 1998, the Haus der Zukunft opened. Since 2002, he has been active in Sustainable Management for All Local Leaders.

Winter received the Umweltpreis der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt in 1995.

Georg Winter has also published collections of poetry.

In English

  • Business and the environment; a handbook of industrial ecology with 22 checklists for practical use and a concrete example of the integrated system of environmentalist business management (the Winter Model), London, McGraw-Hill, 1988. ISBN 3-89028-223-7
  • Blueprint for green management; creating your company’s own environmental action plan, London, McGraw-Hill, 1995. ISBN 0-07-709015-2

    • In German

  • Das umweltbewußte Unternehmen. Ein Handbuch der Betriebsökologie mit 22 Check-Listen für die Praxis, Beck Verlag, Munich, 1987, ISBN 3-406-32153-4.
  • (ed. with Jürgen Hopfmann): Zukunftsstandort Deutschland. Das Programm der umweltbewussten Unternehmer, Droemer Knaur, 1997, ISBN 3-426-26939-2.
  • (ed.): Ökologische Unternehmensentwicklung. Management im dynamischen Umfeld, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1997, ISBN 3-540-61790-6.
  • Das umweltbewusste Unternehmen. Die Zukunft beginnt heute, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-32153-4.

    • Poetry

  • Der Trödelbarde oder Die Schau der seltsamen Dinge, 1986.
  • Zungenbrecher. Wenn Papa Grappa schlabbert ... und andere Stolperverse, Goldmann Verlag, Munich, 2007, ISBN 3-442-15460-X.

    • References

    Georg Winter (manager) Wikipedia
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