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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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