Rogat+-+Memo+-+Chapter+Summaries

Michelle Rogat Chapter Summaries
 * 1) __**About the Author -**__ my education and background that led me to this, My positioning being the perfect - the insight and opportunities it offers as well as the ethical conundrums it brings like having a strong bias in some things, but then again, any professional in their line of expertise is going to have a bias in a study that involves their expertise - it is still valuable, just have to take where I'm coming from into consideration. Mention my intentions for the information and how I wanted to give back to that the research allowed me to pay appreciation and give back to the country club.
 * 2) ** __Introduction -__ **
 * 3) __ focus - __ Analyze the business ecology structure of the hospitality industry for the circumstances that provide opportunities and difficulties for businesses to shift to sustainability.
 * 4) __ structure of book - __ is to 1st address the sustainability movement and the lack of forward progress as a way to relate the chapters and importance of the book back to it's role in environmental sustainability. Then the book is going to go through the business ecology around the hospitality industry such as the business - in this case the country club, the services it contracts out and the opportunities there to be sustainable, and the environmental and sustainability consultants that they could go to for advise on their business, this ecology for the country club in particular also includes it's members and the elite of society.
 * 5) __conclusion -__ From these chapters will be advice for business owners and the hospitality industry that there is strong inter-dependencies between them and the separate parts of the business ecology that they participate in, that can either create opportunities or be disadvantaging. These businesses live within the community around it, so doesn't just fall on the club to be sustainable, but on the whole business ecology. So everything doesn't just fall on one business in the ecology, and one business can affect many others. Then there is advice on becoming sustainable that each node of the business ecology had to offer.
 * 6) __**The environmental and sustainability movement**__ - give background on how it's not progressing as it probably could - use this section to give context to the follwoing sections, so that the information on sustainability in the hospitality industry is relevant to the readers
 * 7) go into analysis paralysis and use that to explain the need to have a paradigm focus shift from the answers for becoming susatinable to the successful ways to implement those answers into society and business, there's a need to focus on the failures of sustainability and learn from those mistakes and analyze how we overcame those obstacles.
 * 8) Resistance to change in society and in businesses
 * 9) pathway dependency and organizational structure
 * 10) __**Hospitality industry**__
 * 11) as low hanging fruit - go into the different businesses and information on the energy and materials use and waste
 * 12) how it's important to introduce sustainability into the hospitality industry as a good strategy for making sustainability look sexy and have it be demanded - once te rich and elite are seen going to places that brag about their sustainable practices, then other members of society will want it as well - just like the strategy of the IkoToilet - to bring the toilet into cities first and then into the slums to trick them into wanting it
 * 13) they don't exist in a vaccum, but within the market of what is available to them and surrounds them in their environment, describe the organization of the business ecology surrounding a the hospitality industry, there are these nodes in the business ecology of the hospitality industry
 * 14) the business, like the hotel or the country club
 * 15) the businesses around that central business that provide services like garbage removal, product sourcing, laundry and other cleaning services
 * 16) environmental and sustainability consultants and consulting firms
 * 17) the members/ customers themselves - a majority of which are the elite of society
 * 18) __**Importance of studying and influencing the elite in the sustainability movement -**__ will be able to cover this more thoroughly once I've read through the thesis by J. Sherwood
 * 19) __**the country club setting -**__ go into using the describing organizations and place memos
 * 20) how the country club is a community of its own within the region's community
 * 21) go into facts on number of golf courses in US and the world, on their waste production and energy and resource use
 * 22) explain its organizational structure and how it is a unique business structure with stakeholder involvement
 * 23) the elite that go to country clubs - and how the club is an elite culture of its own
 * 24) __**greening the CC of XXXX**__
 * 25) the view of country clubs and their impact on the environment overall - USE HEGEMONIC BACKDROP (as of now focus on golf courses in particular unless I get more info making a restaurant sustainable too)
 * 26) go into the actual environmental impacts of GC's and then on the number of GC's on the US - get an idea of overall impact and the broad impact this research could make on that
 * 27) golf course - go over the research process done at the CC and it's golf course - the process to getting it certified, the issues that came up, how they were averted or fixed
 * 28) go over a snapshot of SM golf course and it's certification process - what were the end results for them, are they happy with it? - will use interview and news-article research
 * 29) implementing other sustainability projects in the facility, on the grounds, practices in the restaurant ? food waste? (could be a lead into the next topic on sustainability service companies... food waste hauling)
 * 30) __**environmental and sustainability consultants such as Audubon, PM, SP, ?**__
 * 31) use the describing people memo - the attitudes in which these professionals have to go about their work, the amount of optimism and open-mindedness it requires
 * 32) their experiences with their clients attempts towards sustainability
 * 33) examples and reasons for success and failures
 * 34) any overarching advice that they seem to come to each time
 * 35) __**service companies surrounding the hospitality industry that are sustainable and can help with becoming sustainable**__
 * 36) food service hauling companies - to deal with food waste and offer back organic compost for gardens and landscaping needs of client
 * 37) local food distributors - sourcing from locals first like Brickman does (HADN'T THOUGHT OF USING THIS BEFORE, BUT MY OLD RESEARCH MIGHT APPLY TO THIS PAPER ALSO - ON THE RESTAURANTS FOOD SOURCING)
 * 38) energy companies? NYSERDA?
 * 39) what other services are fulfilled by other companies in the hospitality industry? linen? is there a way to sustainable there? (probably, WILL NEED TO RESEARCH THIS MORE)
 * 40) __**Results - reoccurring themes and advice **__
 * 41) stakeholder involvement - so any sustainability efforts will have longstanding backing from the community that it involves and effects and not just a person in a position in charge of the project
 * 42) powerplays and work relationships/ work politics play a role
 * 43) will have more info
 * 44) __**conclusion and future work**__
 * 45) how the concepts researched here could be applied across sectors so that society could become sustainable as a whole
 * 46) biggest leverage being the golfing community and the elite members of the club
 * 47) give my own thoughts - hone in on the importance of cross-expertise dialogue
 * 48) my future work