Highlights
Imagining Sustainability in 2030: Smart Farms to Super Batteries
Sure, 2014 saw its share of forward-thinking business investments and new, collaborative models in sustainability fields ranging from advanced agriculture to renewable energy. The year ahead, too, is already shaping up to be momentous for technologies, new business...
In Focus
Jeff Mendelsohn, New Leaf Paper, talks smart tax and spend policy | Vol 1
Jeff Mendelsohn's mission has been to pioneer markets to prove that sustainable business is a viable avenue to create profit. This led to starting New Leaf Paper, a 30 million a year privately held paper company that has set the standards for 100% recycled paper in...
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App Aims to Broaden the ‘eEcosphere’ for Consumers and Business
Can millennials and social networking really lead us to a sustainable future? One startup is betting its business model on “yes.” eEcosphere aims to help users discover, adopt and share actionable ideas to build a more sustainable lifestyle — providing personally...
Inequality
If there is any one fundamental idea standing in the way of a bright future for all, it is the idea of human inequality. The idea that someone is above you or that someone is below you. It is the most confused and most dangerous idea in our existence borne from the...
Sectors
Net Energy Metering in Utah
There was much ado recently about California passing a law to allow “Net Metering” for individuals or institutions producing renewable energy… and get *paid* for it. Apparently, they could contribute net energy to the grid before out of the goodness of their hearts....
2013 Chinese & Indian Solar Markets Doubling
Vishal Shah predicts that the Chinese market which installed over 4 GW last year will more than double to 10 gigawatts and the Indian market will more than triple to reach 4 gigawatts and the U.S. will rise a measly 29 percent to 4.5 gigawatts. ...
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How-To Make Peace With The Peace Corps
Social entrepreneurship is a high risk lifestyle. Axiomatically, a social entrepreneur should - indeed must - advocate for risk-taking status quo disruption on behalf of communities without power, without opportunity and without resources. Equally true, every social...
Feature
What 4 Global Trends Will Drive 21st Century Investing?
2nd in a series of excerpts from the book The HIP Investor (John Wiley & Sons, 2010). See other articles in the series here. Human, social and environmental challenges surround us. In recent years, many capitalists have treated these seemingly intractable issues...
Gil Friend, Natural Logic | Vol 1
Gil Friend, CEO of Natural Logic, Inc., describes how he helps companies “take sustainability deep” — uncovering and capturing the massive value that embedded sustainability can deliver. In this video, we learn how Gil applies the lessons of natural systems to...
Environmental Giving: A Business Strategy for Success
1% for the Planet Member Companies’ Growth Outpaces GDP What goes around comes around. The Golden Rule. Karma. This basic tenet of the world’s religions and philosophers has translated into a business strategy that is driving strong financial success for more than...
The New Fundamentals of Investing: Building a Better World Drives Potential for Higher Profits
First in a series of excerpts from the book “The HIP Investor” (John Wiley & Sons, 2010). See other published articles in the series here. Capitalism used to be easy. Discover, acquire, and defend a unique resource. Pay people the least you can get away with....
Social Entrepreneurs Create Two Amazingly Simple Water Carriers
Two social entrepreneurs have recently introduced simple, yet astoundingly effective systems that can be used by women living in developing countries to collect and carry clean water. Many women and children living in water-stressed African regions are forced to...
Nat Goldhaber, Claremont Creek Ventures | Vol 1
Nat Goldhaber, managing director of Claremont Creek Ventures, share his insights in this video around energy and policy in California in regards to clean tech investments. Goldhaber's interview focuses on a Claremont Creek solar investment example in a company called...
GoingGreen’s global 200 top private companies for 2012
This year's 200 top, private greentech companies -- plus 30 to watch -- are taking maturing greentech research and pairing it with innovative technology solutions to change the way we live our lives for the better. Interested in getting a front seat and understanding...
The 2012 power players in greentech
In addition to GoingGreen's 6th annual top 200 clean tech companies, AlwaysOn, a conference series around investment in clean and green tech, announced their first annual Power Players in Greentech list, "honoring the champions of entrepreneurship who are helping the...
Anne Smart, Silicon Valley Leadership Group | Vol. 1
Watch Anne Smart from Silicon Valley Leadership Group speak about Cap and Trade. A historic milestone was reached November 14, 2012 when Governor Schwartznegger's California Global Warming Solutions Act came into law, commonly known as Cap and Trade. The bill passed...
Planting trees, one step at a time
In Bozeman, Montana they do it right when it comes to carbon offsets. Oboz Footwear has an approach that holds up the philosophy of their company which cares about wilderness areas. "Plant a tree for every shoe we sell". So, Oboz does just that. Understanding the...
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