Can Patagonia's 'responsible economy' campaign catch a wave? | GreenBiz.com - 0 views
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We are clear in telling everybody that we don’t have it figured out. It is a debate in progress.
20 Inspiring Quotes from SXSWeco 2013 - 0 views
Harvard University: Endowments Shouldn't be Ruled by Climate Change - 0 views
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However, research conducted concurrently by several different firms, including the Associated Press, suggests that while Harvard might have benefited well from its oil and gas investments in the past, the marketplace, with the world’s increased focus on climate issues, was changing. “Fossil fuel free” investments now stand to earn more
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In 2005, in response to increasing pressure from student and human rights groups, the university announced it would be divesting from overseas companies like PetroChina and Sinopec that allegedly had ties with Sudan. However, two years later, the student-run paper, Harvard Crimson, reported that the university still maintained investments in those overseas companies.
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What President Faust’s letter didn’t address was the relationship between investment and reputation. Harvard’s reputation is shaped by what it invests in, not just in what it teaches or promotes in research. So is its brand as an impartial, but forward-thinking institution that doesn’t want to be perceived as a “political actor.” But climate change is altering not only how we harness energy but how we view the political landscape. As a poet once told me, “everything is political.” It’s how we deal with that landscape and the choices we make that shapes how others view us.
Women in CSR: Dr. Debbie Haski-Leventhal, Macquarie Graduate School of Management - 0 views
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“If you present people with a solution, they would come up with a thousand problems. If you present people with a problem, they would come up with a thousand solutions.”
Leaving an Impact After You're Gone - 1 views
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“If everything you do, you do for yourself, then when you die it all disappears. If everything you do, you do for others, it all lives on.”
4 opportunities to get retailers on board with solar | GreenBiz.com - 0 views
Study: Telecommuting can save American households $1.7 billion per year | SmartPlanet - 0 views
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n real world terms: currently 40 percent of IBM’s employees telecommute, saving the company nearly $2.9 billion in reduced office space needs since 1995 (this doesn’t even include the energy cost savings).
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March 16, 2011,
Pacific Coast Leaders Sign Historic Climate Action Plan - 0 views
Sustainable Business: Where Our Moral Compass Meets the Bottom Line | Paul Polman - 0 views
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So capitalism, with all its faults, is the only game in town. The task confronting the present generation of leaders is to improve on it, to build on its strengths and eradicate its weaknesses.
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It became all about "having more," instead of "living more."
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Addressing the weaknesses of capitalism will require us, above all, to do two things: first, to take a long term perspective; and second, to re-set the priorities of business.
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Why GMO labeling is a 'Story of Solutions' | GreenBiz.com - 0 views
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