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All Blog Posts Tagged 'Economy' (27)

Going Back to the Future -- with Nuclear Energy

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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Added by Sue Lebeck on August 30, 2011 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Free to Be Customers (Again)

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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Added by Sue Lebeck on July 18, 2011 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Creating Value for all Stakeholders: the Triple-Bottom-Line

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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Added by Sue Lebeck on July 18, 2011 at 3:00pm — No Comments

The Call to Innovation

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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Added by Sue Lebeck on April 5, 2011 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Sink and Source: Facing Limits of Capacity

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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Added by Nathaniel Gloekler on March 15, 2011 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Leading the change ahead: Begin where you are

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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Added by Sue Lebeck on March 1, 2011 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Check Out My Observation on Carbon Offsets

I decided to buy carbon offsets for my parents' cars as a holiday gift this year.  It ended up being a hit! They saw it as a thoughtful gift and it allowed us to talk more thoroughly about the rest of their carbon offsets.  Even better, it gave me the excuse to do some long-desired research about carbon offsets, their efficacy and how to choose where to buy them from.  To read the full article, click… Continue

Added by Natalie Forsythe on January 11, 2011 at 3:30pm — No Comments

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