
A green organization is essentially an organization that emphasizes the interrelationships between its overall activities and its natural environment, or an environment created by it. A green organization conducts a policy that supports political and social ideologies based on taking environmental considerations into account in the framework of economic development. The organization will be educated in environmental sciences in order to conduct itself in accordance with these ideologies. Environmental sciences include: ecology, atmospheric sciences, earth sciences, chemical engineering, water engineering, and more. A green organization has two fundamental challenges to overcome, in order to implement the ideologies that support environmental quality in a reasonable manner at the very least. The first challenge is the commitment to a deep and serious process that will finance a series of significant changes that will correct the destructive habits of decades of industry, namely - to abandon methodologies that were established before awareness of the importance of environmental quality became widespread. These methodologies include many outdated concepts such as: utilizing natural resources to produce raw materials or energy (oil, harmful gases, etc.), waste management, use of polluting/harmful substances, production of harmful products, or harmful by-products, etc. The second challenge is redefining the organization's goals, while emphasizing the ways in which the goals are achieved. The ultimate goal of every organization, which actually justifies its existence, is making money. Every organization in the world that integrates the field of environmental quality into its activities faces a dilemma that supposedly promises it losses in the near term, since the field of environmental quality dictates a deviation from convention, namely the abandonment of common processes in favor of integrating processes that support environmental quality. A green organization must emphasize the importance of the way in which it accumulates its wealth and ensure that its processes are not harmful to the environment, or are harmful to the environment to the least extent possible.
