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GE’s sustainability initiatives

Yesterday I attended an outreach event, organized by AccountAbility and GE, to bring together NGO stakeholders to provide input on GE's continually developing sustainability initiatives.  I was one of a couple of other ...READ»

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PALM OIL   |  Comment

World Wildlife Fund to Rate Palm Oil Buyers

Palm oil buyers should get ready for a thorough inspection from the World Wildlife Fund, which plans on evaluating the world's biggest palm oil purchasers for a "buyer's scorecard". The scorecard will reveal which ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Six Strategies to Thrive in the Conserver Economy

Where the green economy meets the lean economyREAD»

Kenan Samms

Prepare students for what they want to do: examples of best-in-class courses that inspire invention and innovation

Gone are the days when undergraduate students learned theory without the opportunity to practice and apply the lessons learned.  Today, more and more students are attracted to, and inspired by, solving real world problems and ...READ»

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Going MiaGreen in Miami

Riding the green wave to MiamiREAD»

Kenan Samms

Green Opportunities in the Hudson Valley

I spoke at a couple of events on April 29 in the Hudson Valley, talking about green business opportunities.  One was a workshop I did sponsored by SUNY Ulster in Kingston New York, and the other was a luncheon with GET (Gateways to ...READ»

Solar Installation - how long does it take?

I am often asked how long it took to build our solar installation in El Segundo   The installation has approaching 3000 modules, a combination of a raised tracking system over the parking lot and fixed ...READ»

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Aspen Skiing Company's Auden Schendler on Big Levers, Blue Collars and Bourbon

Auden Schendler, author of Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Movement wastes no time telling us he has something to tell us. He opens his trenchant enviro counterpoint with a dirge. ...READ»

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Sky-Terra Skyscrapers Create Green Spaces in the Sky

These Sky-Terra concept skyscrapers look like giant pieces of artwork shooting up from the ground, but they do more than just look pretty. The network of interconnected towers, one of the entries in the 2009 eVolo Skyscraper ...READ»

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Clean Technology at Innotech

Investing in clean technology might be the way out of this messy economy, but first you've got to tackle things like leveraging the stimulus package and "mapping the green IT landscape." More than 30 leading professions ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Growing Legs to Leap to the Next Opportunity

In recent weeks I’ve been watching tadpoles in a small pool in a drying creekbed.  The tadpoles are small but they tell a big story.  The pool they’re in lies in a canyon surrounded by trees and grasses.  It has been another ...READ»

When Social Media Trashes You...How Should You Respond?

I just read a very interesting article called "How to Weather a Twitterstorm"--and one of the most interesting parts was the comments, which included a whole lot of people who basically said that Twitter, Facebook and other ...READ»

Kenan Samms
GREEN   |  Comment

Now I Know How Al Gore Feels

I’ve been an environmental advocate for the same couple of decades, always suspecting that my friends raised an eyebrow or two over my predictions and admonitions about sustainability (my family, however, was not subtle about raising their eyebrows). I worked for the day when thinking “green” would be a normal part of everyday life. Well, just as Al Gore’s day(s) arrived in 2007, my days arrived this week.READ»

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Want True Sustainability? Then Design to Seduce

Sustainable design is a hot topic. While most people applaud the idea of designers using ecofriendly materials, others insist that that's missing the point--that by designing for mass consumption, designers are still part of the ...READ»

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What it really takes to Innovate?

One of the biggest barriers to organisations innovating, especially SME’s is the widespread misuse of the word innovation and its application by companies who can’t really define it. Because of this, innovation is normally ...READ»

Enough is Enough; When Volunteers Should Say ‘No’!

Where do you draw the line with the organization you volunteer for? There is always so much work to be done, and if you respect and believe in the cause, how do you know when you need to say ‘no’ to the next request?READ»

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Resilience in the Face of Crisis: Why the Future Will Be Flexible

What will a post-crash, truly 21st-century world look like? For people 
thinking about global systems (economic, environmental, and social) 
one idea stands out: resilience.
 Resilience means the capacity of an ...READ»

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First Sustainable Fishing Loan Program in the U.S. Launches at Google HQ

It's hard to keep that New Year's resolution to eat sustainable seafood with so many tasty endangered species on restaurant menus. But the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) California Fisheries Fund (CFF) could be the push that ...READ»

Six Levels of Sustainability: What You Be is What You Get (6) Constellation

"Sustainability" is not always sustainable. Simply, doing and describing what you do as sustainable does not make it so. For organizations (and us, personally!) to be sustainable in what we do, we have to be sustainable ...READ»

P&G, Microsoft and Sustainability

P&G and Microsoft have both recently strongly committed themselves to "sustainability." P&G's Lafley saying: P&G’s commitment to sustainability is strategic. It is how our company conducts business. ...READ»

When Does Paying Referral Commissions Raise Ethics Questions?

At LinkedIn, a great discussion on <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gid=54066&discussionID=2031924&commentID=2462364#commentID_2462364">when it is or isn't OK to pay ...READ»

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Net Activists: How Social Media Can Create Social Change

Joining an energy conservation Facebook group and then smugly dusting off your hands--Well, that's settled!--is not social activism. Social media makes it increasingly easy to look environmentally responsible, for both individuals ...READ»

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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LEADERSHIP SERVICE LAUNCHED

Executive Search firm launches "CSR Insights" (http://www.csrinsights.com) - a free service for social responsibility leadersREAD»

Kenan Samms

A Changing Climate for Green Leaders

Certifying the leaders of the green biz revolutionREAD»

Six Levels of Sustainability: (5) Coherence

 "Sustainability" is not always sustainable. Simply, doing and describing what you do as sustainable does not make it so. For organizations (and us, personally!) to be sustainable in what we do, we have to be sustainable ...READ»

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