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Collaboration or Collision – facing down the barriers of sustainability transformation
Collaboration is complicated. I am working with a non-governmental organization (NGO) to bring together four other non-governmental organizations, one municipal government with multiple engaged departments (energy, water, transportation, waste, wellbeing), two utilities, businesses and neighbourhood groups to launch a city-wide conservation … Continue reading
Making Change for Sustainability – a wicked problem?
WANTED: Sustainability Change Process – must be simple to understand and able to generate significant long-term results with minimal short-term financial investment. Candidates must be able to motivate and inspire others to achieve collective and individual action. Resulting change should … Continue reading
Sustainability 101: Just What this Business Manager and Global Relief Director Needed
By Suanne deBoer I’ve just completed The Natural Step’s Sustainability 101 course and feel compelled to combine my business management experience and training with my commitment to social responsibility and sustainability. The message of sustainability is so simple and yet … Continue reading
Do green/sustainability project managers have the critical “know-how” to leverage a more sustainable world?
Donella Meadows once noted that there are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything. She called them “leverage points”, they … Continue reading
What will it take to build the sustainable future we want?
In the first chapter of his book, The Sustainability Transformation, Alan AtKisson relates a story about moving to Seattle to take his first sustainability job as the Managing Editor of Context magazine. He reflects, “I think …the best part about … Continue reading
Zero Net Impact Growth – Radical Oxymoron or Critical Survival Strategy for Business
It is a paradox. You can’t have infinite growth on a finite planet. Yet, we’re stuck in a global economic model that continuously drives us toward growth. Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows told us this 40 years ago in … Continue reading
WWF 2012 Report – Can you believe we are using 50 per cent more resources than the Earth can provide?
According to the 2012 World Wildlife Fund Living Planet Report, we are using 50 per cent more resources than the Earth can provide, and unless we change course that number will grow very fast – by 2030, even two planets will … Continue reading
Is there life beyond growth for business?
May 2, 2012 (Reprinted from sustainability-dō – The art of blogging sustainability, succinctly by Alan Atkisson) The short answer is: yes, there must be. But we have not seen it yet. The search continues. To illustrate the point, let me … Continue reading
‘Uncomfortable (environmental) Targets’ Necessary – Unilever’s CEO has message for governments
Can governments learn something from business? I think that Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever could teach a thing or two to certain governments who hold the future of my children in their hands. If the key messages in Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan Progress Report … Continue reading
Six Surprising Sustainability Facts
By Jim Harris 1. Fuel efficient cars would eliminate North American Oil Imports If every car in North America got the same fuel efficiency as my Toyota Prius there’d be no need to import any oil into North America and … Continue reading
