Sticker Shock: Walmart’s labeling scheme will be costly, but will it be effective? Two views.
Monday, August 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments OffEco-labeling is becoming globally hot, thanks in part to Walmart. Here are two perspectives. The first is from Stephen Stokes of AMR Research, by way of Climate Inc., edited by David Levy, Professor of Management ...
The Four-Day Work Week Works
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments Offby Pete Davies Utah’s experiment shows happier employees and environmental benefits 17,000 Utah state employees have been working four-day weeks since last August. Non-critical government and agency staff have worked ten-hour days Monday-Thursday and then taken three-day weekends. ...
Shoe Brands Get Tough On Leather Suppliers To Save Amazon Rainforest
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments Offby Damian Carrington and Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro Crackdown against 'environmental criminals' follows Greenpeace report Slaughtering the Amazon from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo. Some of the world's top footwear brands, including Clarks, Adidas, Nike and Timberland, ...
Big Polluters Turn Tree Huggers
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments Offby Lisa Stiffler The quest to curb climate change has polluters embracing trees. Carbon-dioxide consuming forests are helping control climate change -- and that's turning some polluters into tree huggers. Businesses that emit greenhouse gases want to ...
Joost Bonsen: Boston’s Venture Catalyst
Friday, July 10th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments OffNominated by Catlin Powers and Scot Frank The mind behind MIT social entrepreneurship, Joost Bonsen has brought some of Boston’s best development ventures to life. Joost works his magic from one of the corner tables in the ...
Joost Bonsen: Boston’s Venture Catalyst
Friday, July 10th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments OffNominated by Catlin Powers and Scot Frank The mind behind MIT social entrepreneurship, Joost Bonsen has brought some of Boston’s best development ventures to life. Joost works his magic from one of the corner tables in the ...
Breaking News: Husk Power Systems Wins $250K Venture Competition
Friday, July 3rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments OffHusk Power Systems, a company we profiled here on NextBillion back in October, was announced today as the winner of the Global Business Plan competition sponsored by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Cisco Systems. As the winning ...
Intuit Helps Small Business Capture a ‘Green Snapshot’
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments OffCan the company that tamed financial accounting do the same for carbon accounting? That's the aim of Green Snapshot, a just-launched free service of Intuit, the company that makes popular financial management software like Quickbooks and TurboTax. ...
Private Equity Gets Principled
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments OffBy Chris Alden Better late than never? That would be a forgivable reaction to the news that 13 global private equity firms – who between them hold stakes in some of the biggest names in British business, such ...
Private Equity Gets Principled
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments OffBy Chris Alden Better late than never? That would be a forgivable reaction to the news that 13 global private equity firms – who between them hold stakes in some of the biggest names in British business, such ...
Open Intellectual Property as Sustainability Accelerator
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments OffIt's the job of the world's poor to get rich, and the job of the world's rich to redefine wealth. That is, the biggest task facing the developing world is development and human well-being, while the ...
Paul Hawken’s definition of GDP
Monday, March 16th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments Off“We have an economy where we steal the future, sell it in the present, and call it GDP" - Paul Hawken Help us change the world - DONATE NOW! (Posted by Alex Steffen in Transforming Business at 10:35 ...
Paul Hawken’s definition of GDP
Monday, March 16th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments Off“We have an economy where we steal the future, sell it in the present, and call it GDP" - Paul Hawken Help us change the world - DONATE NOW! (Posted by Alex Steffen in Transforming Business at 10:35 ...
Enlightened Capitalism: Building a New Corporate Consciousness
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments OffPhoto credit: flickr/Daleberts, Creative Commons license. By Rachel Botsman Besides changing our perceptions of the world and how we operate within it, the buckling of the “old system” of business is rapidly restructuring the relationships between employees, companies ...
Pop!Tech: MobileMetrix Makes the Base of the Pyramid Visible
Thursday, November 6th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments OffWho are they?" Melanie Edwards asks us. Frankly, we don't know – and neither does the government. These are the people of Morro de Macacoes – Portuguese for "Hill of the Monkeys" – and ...
Letter from Tällberg: Turn Back, O Man
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments OffHere at the Tällberg Forum-- Sweden's annual festival of words and music, science and dreams about sustainability and globalization -- things are getting a little clearer. This is the last day, so it's just in time. ...
PUSH Conference: Day Two
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Transforming Business | Comments OffBy Jessica Chapman This year's PUSH conference was titled "The Fertile Delta." The intended meaning of this enigmatic title was revealed in increasing depth as the conference progressed. The phrase encapsulates a belief in the opportunities available ...