In the wake of Fukushima, I can hardly believe I’m saying this.
Nuclear energy – that field I’ve loved to hate, that clean-energy-with-the-out-sized risks, that “nuclear” word which nearly dissuaded me from having children back in the 1980’s – nuclear energy (of a not-often-heard-of type) could come back out of hiding to address our urgent need for clean, plentiful energy in the 21st…
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While musing about independence on the 4th of July, I found myself inside of an unexpected but provocative question. Asked then: “What is our modern tyranny -- the ‘arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power’ from which we seek freedom” today?
After sitting with this question for a couple of weeks, I…
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Expressions of stakeholder-driven triple-bottom-line value creation can be found at Wikipedia and from Andrew Savitz, author of the book The Triple-Bottom-Line.
Additionally, the following slide identifies some of the forms of triple-bottom-line value I work to help create myself, directly and indirectly, through the innovation alliances work of…
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You know by now that I like to quote from Vision 2050: A new agenda for business. If 30+ leaders, mostly from the C-suites of the world's largest companies, took the time to write it, I think it only right that I should take the time to read it.
This week's quote is a nice support for our spotlighted story (our first "Conversation") on Innovation Alliances for the 21st…
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For too long we in the US have lived the delusions of exceptionalism. Having dreamed from early on that it was our birthright, nay our DESTINY, to seize control over this continent from sea to shining sea, this inheritance of and heritage to the enlightenment rationality that located humanity (or more specifically White Anglo Men) as somehow separate from and hierarchically superior to Nature (and other Mothers, as well) has brought us to loggerheads…
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Radical change is clearly ahead. In the words of a WBCSD task force comprised of the largest businesses in the world "Business-as-usual cannot get us to sustainability or secure economic and social prosperity. These can be achieved only through radical change, starting now." They went on to articulate exactly what needs to change. But the question that comes up again and again in…
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