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How-To Use Ambiguity to Pioneer Change
Despite crushing student loans and a miserable job market, this Millennial Generation is the most socially conscious, most globally aware and most actively committed to careers of conscience to come along in decades. College students and young professionals are eager...
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Empowering Evolution
Progress and peril have been reluctant partners for most of our civilized existence. The unprecedented material progress that we have now become accustomed to, has also passed on the real systemic costs to our people, places and planet. We still have no idea how to...
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Christopher Arnold on Chipotle’s on healthy food sourcing
For the first time we are seeing healthy fast food chains, such as Chipotle, rise up in the stock market. In this interview, PR Director Christopher Arnold describes how Chipotle is impacting the growth of organic family farms by making simple purchasing changes--and...
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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Resource Productivity: McKinsey Frames a Huge Business Opportunity
Companies need to shoot for the stars in thinking about resource productivity, according to a new report from McKinsey & Co. Fortunately, technology is presenting opportunities to do so. “Rather than settling for historic resource-productivity improvement rates of...
More Companies Face Climate-Related Risks to Supply Chains
It's easy to talk about companies needing to understand climate risks in their supply chains. It's a lot harder to do something about it. Risk and supply chains were woven tightly throughout the conversation at the Climate Leadership Conference last week in San Diego....
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How-To Tackle Thankless Social Change Work
Fighting the good fight means big challenges, big ideas, big solutions. In humble contrast, the menial and mind-numbing grunt work required of the social change-maker is tiring and tedious. Accurately and also arrogantly, you know grunt work is below your station,...
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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...
Cracking the Corporate-Social Enterprise Nut at SoCap: Lessons from Unilever, GE and Google
How can the social enterprise sector navigate the challenges of working with global corporations? That was the challenge set forth for discussion by I-DEV International at SoCap 2013 with I-DEV Director and Partner Patricia Chin-Sweeney opening the panel and...
Joel Makower, Editor of Green Biz on the future of global progress
In this complicated world we live in, a few powerful incumbents maintain the status quo to protect a small number of special interests groups. This is not conspiracy theory but fact. Meanwhile, many companies are doing much more than they are letting people know...
VERGE SF Revs Up Focus on Connected Cars and Sustainable Mobility
OAKLAND, Calif. — The near-term future of vehicles — smart, clean, connected and increasingly efficient — will be at the forefront of a four-day conference in San Francisco, taking place October 14-17 as part of the city’s Innovation Month. VERGE San Francisco, the...
Sustainable, Resilient Cities Take Center Stage at VERGE SF
The role of technology in creating sustainable and resilient cities will be a key topic at our upcoming VERGE SF event, October 14-17, formally part of San Francisco’s Innovation Month. In case you've somehow missed the buzz these last few months: VERGE San Francisco,...
How-To Cope When Social Justice Moves Backwards
I am having a moment. Trayvon Martin is dead, nothing can replace him in our lives, and (again) the American legal system - instead of color-blindness - was blindly stupid about race, racism and racial injustice. The Supreme Court has eviscerated the Civil Rights Act,...
The Solar Vector circa 2013
EGW consistently seeks to remind readers that metrics that refer to “single points in time”– scalar numbers– are important in taking the temperature of the energy industries, but alone they are misleading. Knowing how that “temperature” changes over time is a more...
et the Photovoltaic Battle Begin
MIT Technology Review recently published a summary article that brings new light to the use of an age old material in bringing down the cost of solar cells significantly. Perovskites are a plentiful mineral that have been interesting to material scientists in the...
How-To Kick It As A Fundraiser For Fun And Profit
One million U.S. nonprofits compete for the $300 million annually donated to charity. Historically, most of the money goes to religious and educational institutions. Is your social enterprise, your vision for a decent world, getting funded? Like every successful...
Eos Batteries Supercharge Renewable Energy
There are batteries, and there are BATTERIES. Many have long held that sustainable, renewable energy sources won’t take down carbon-based energy sources until battery technology improves substantially. Many renewable energy sources– notably wind and solar– are...
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