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Carbon-Free Prosperity 2025 | Climate Solutions and Clean Edge
Carbon-Free Prosperity 2025 concludes that five emerging clean-tech industry sectors offer the Pacific Northwest one of the best opportunities for sustained economic vitality and job growth.
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Gore & Blood: We Need Sustainable Capitalism | WSJ
Today, the sustainability challenges the planet faces are extraordinary and completely unprecedented. Business and the capital markets are best positioned to address these issues.
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Paul Hawken @ zeitgeist08 | YouTube
There are a lot of inconvenient truths in the world. The mother of them, Al Gore has very clearly enunciated, but this mother had a lot of children.
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Six Habits of Highly Resilient Organizations
What differentiates success and failure, resilience and collapse?
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Dave Pollard: Business Risk and Resilience
I frame global warming in terms of business risk, business sustainability, and business resilience.
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Art Kleiner: The Age of Heretics Webinar | strategy+business
A heretic (in business) is a person who sees a truth that contradicts conventional wisdom and remains loyal to both entities: the organization and the truth.
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Ten Nonprofit Funding Models | Stanford Social Innovation
For-profit business models—such as “low-cost provider”— describe the way companies are built and sustained. Nonprofits have not had an equivalent lexicon—until now.
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Doc Searls: Get Ready for "Fourth Party" Services | Linux Journal
Free markets need free customers. Right now "free" means "your choice of captor". Not good enough.
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Yochai Benkler: The Collaborative Company | McKinsey What Matters
Peer production and other forms of collaboration reverse break down the barrier between the market self and the social self.
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Edelman 2009 Trust Barometer
Nearly two in three informed publics—62% of 25-to-64-year-olds surveyed in 20 countries—say they trust corporations less now than they did a year ago.
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Marjorie Kelly: Not Just for Profit | strategy+business
Alternatively designed companies offer important lessons in how corporate ownership and governance can evolve differently.
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Daniel Goleman: Life Cycle Assessment | Bill Moyers Journal
Life Cycle Assessment documents the whole cost of a product by breaking it down into component parts and tracing them up the production line.
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The conservation economy: A new kind of capitalism | Vancouver Sun
Almost lost in the flood of annual results released by corporations at this time of year, the Ecotrust Canada report delivers a clear insight into what has to be one of Canada’s most unusual blends of capitalism and conservation.
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Why Sustainability Is Now the Key Driver of Innovation | HBR
Five stages of change: (1) viewing compliance as opportunity; (2) making value chains sustainable; (3) designing sustainable products and services; (4) developing new business models; and (5) creating next-practice platforms.
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Sotomayor Issues Challenge to a Century of Corporate Law | WSJ
Originally, corporations were a relatively rare form of organization. The government granted charters to corporations, delineating their specific functions. Their powers were presumed limited to those their charter spelled out.
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Business Model Generation
We believe a business model can best be described through nine basic building blocks that show the logic of how a company intends to make money.
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Hagel, Seely Brown, and Davison: The Shift Index
Sources of economic value are moving from “stocks” of knowledge to “flows” of new knowledge.
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Vision 2050 | World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Vision 2050 spells out the “must haves” – the things that must happen over the coming decade to make a sustainable planetary society possible.
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Tom Johnson: Toyota and the Price of Growth
I believe that true sustainability in an economy dominated by publicly traded firms is an oxymoron.
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John Hagel on Richard Florida
The increasing spikiness of our world is driven at least in part by the growing importance of flows of tacit knowledge that typically flourish with physical proximity.
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