Robert B. Pojasek, PhD

Dr. Pojasek has been active in the reformatting of the corporate sustainability reporting by using the organizational structure that is presented in the first volume of this work, i.e., organizational sustainability." To make this happen, I have worked closely with Denice Viktoria Staaf, who has introduced herself above.

Dr. Pojasek has been interested in the organizational practice of organizational sustainability since the lead-up to the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro. The United Nations was successful in convincing large companies to get involved in the concept of sustainability as the United States and Europe began introducing legislation on providing communities with clean air and water. Prior to this event, Dr. Pojasek had spent 12 years developing pollution prevention programs in the companies. The interest in "sustainability" and the experience of working with facilities to eliminate or reduce the "waste" in their operations was just beginning. However, consulting firms and university research was slow to develop. Consulting firms were focused on the permitting of processes, not on the elimination of their use.

Dr. Pojasek began teaching pollution prevention at Tufts University, with an eye on developing what people defined as "sustainability." He worked to build interest in this topic by publishing over 100 journal articles on the topic and inviting industry managers to take the courses that he was teaching at Tufts. In 200, he worked with several professors at the Harvard Extension School to develop a "master’s degree program" that would require courses that he wanted to teach. The program began in 2002. Dr. Pojasek developed a course in "Organizational Sustainability" and taught that course for 20 years. He is still working hard to have more practical courses, books, and experiences with organizational sustainability that will soon be supplemented with "sustainable finance." That is the new frontier of this developing story. It is a little soon to be introducing volume 3 of this series. Maybe the first two volumes (volume 1 is in paperback) will convince you to work with corporations to make the changes to adopt the new formats for organizational and financial sustainabilty.