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- 10 Minutes to Make Your Employee Volunteering Event Great
- It’s the System, Stupid!
- Introduction to Sustainable Supply Chains
- What’s “Rio+20″ and Why Should We Care?
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- A Difficult Path to Sustainable Employment
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- Man who Makes his own Underpants Strikes Again
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- The Benefits of Sustainability in Business
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- How sustainability can Save your Business
- The Circular Economy
- The Angry Pedestrian: An Introduction
- Sustainability in the Workplace Low-Hanging Fruit
- Want-ology®
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The Circular Economy
This is a video about the circular economy. It explores how through a change in perspective we can re-design the way our economy works – designing products that can be ‘made to be made again’ and powering the system with renewable energy. It questions whether with creativity and innovation we can build a restorative economy.
The Angry Pedestrian: An Introduction
Let me say first off that I own a car. I drive. I don’t drive a ton, I don’t drive everyday, I don’t drive to my job, but I understand the role of the car in today’s society (in America at least). I can’t walk everywhere and I cover four miles in an hour, not nearly as fast as motorized transit (or a bike for that matter).
Tagged Behavior, society, transportation
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Sustainability in the Workplace Low-Hanging Fruit
This is a video about sustainability in the workplace and low-hanging fruit (Jackie Yerby. Sustainability Program Manager for Regence Bluecross Blueshield).
Tagged CSR, Strategy, sustainability
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Want-ology®
“IN the sprawling outskirts of San Jose, Calif., I find myself at the apartment door of Katherine Ziegler, a psychologist and wantologist. Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?” This opening from an article in the NYTimes, by Arlie Hochschild of Second Shift fame, really shook me up.
Tagged Human Behaviour, psychology, society
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What are Millennials Really Like? This BCG Research Provides a Good Glimpse
The Boston Consulting Group has some interesting new research on millennials, including who they are, what they want and how to talk to them. The highlights? Among the most interesting findings is that millennials – who were taught to recycle in kindergarten – are more likely to take certain socially conscious actions during their daily life.
Tagged green economy, Lifestyle, marketing
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3 Bold Methods for Turning Capacity into Impact
Companies that make an impact fitting of their capacity also dare to be bold. They dream a dream big enough to capture the hearts of their stakeholders and they make a robust action plan to that realize that dream.
Why We Need the “Renewable Development Index”: New Worldwatch Project Aims to Measure the Impact of Renewable Energy (Part 2 of 2)
As we described last week, there is a growing consensus that the time is right for a global shift to sustainable energy solutions. The Worldwatch Institute, in partnership with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), is taking a leading role in facilitating this shift through the creation of the Renewable Development Index.
Tagged development, energy, Renewable
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The convenience city ultimatum
After 13 weeks of exploring the problems and opportunities of a sustainable Vancouver by 2050, what did 17 University of British Columbia students and three teachers come up with? Were they able to find a way to make housing affordable, our streets livable, and our burden on the planet much much lighter?
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