Broken windows and CSR / Sustainability - 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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How to make sustainability ideas stick | GreenBiz.com - 0 views
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Make the project part of core business strategy, involve all levels of your business and include a "cool" factor to make it memorable.
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For instance, do you remember these phrases: "biodegradable plant acute hazardous waste absorption bins" or "cactus sinks?"
Women in CSR: Paige Goff, Domtar - 0 views
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.
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.”
Op-Ed: Walmart is Failing to Honor its Commitment to Roll Back Greenhouse HFC Gases - 0 views
Bridging the Behavioral Gap for Recycling Success · Environmental Management ... - 0 views
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The most effective way to affect change in personal ownership is a combination of education and guilt. Guilt (and a little positive encouragement) changes behavior. It is known that guilt can be a great motivator for environmentally responsible behavior. The Green Guilt survey also showed that 29% of Americans admit to suffering from “green guilt,” defined as the knowledge that you could and should be doing more to help preserve the environment. The findings also show that Americans increasingly feel an obligation to recycle.
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The right combination of knowledge, access and personal responsibility is the foundation needed to move from apathetic to active participant.
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The most challenging hurdle is apathy. When consumers feel disconnected from the benefits of environmentally responsible behaviors—or from the dangers present in its absence—it is easy to just not care
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The Green Issue - Why Isn't the Brain Green? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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rames are just one way to nudge people by using sophisticated messages, mined from decision-science research, that resonate with particular audiences or that take advantage of our cognitive biases (like informing us that an urgent operation has an 80 percent survival rate).
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Nudges, more broadly, structure choices so that our natural cognitive shortcomings don’t make us err. Ideally, nudges direct us, gently, toward actions that are in our long-term interest, like an automated retirement savings plan that circumvents our typical inertia.
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Whatever you design as the most cost-effective or technologically feasible solution might not be palatable to the end users or might encounter political oppositions,”
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Does 'The Scarecrow' practice what Chipotle preaches? | GreenBiz.com - 0 views
Is sustainability a dangerous myth fuelling over consumption? | Guardian Sustainable Bu... - 0 views
Women in CSR: Jacquelyn Ottman, J. Ottman Consulting - 0 views
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