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WWF Green Game Changers Initiative Is a Central Bank for Business Innovation

Looking for examples on how to best green your business? A central list of the companies that can get you started might help. Enter the World Wildlife Fund's Green Game Changers initiative, a so-called "crowd-sourcing exercise" that ...READ»

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Changing the Rules of the Game: A Solution to the BP Problem

Wall Street caused the BP disaster. Short-termism is the problem. The Benefit Corporation is a solution.READ»

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Growth vs. Impact: Part 2

 It’s not that growth is unimportant or that it isn’t a useful metric – it can create jobs, wealth, and career development opportunities – it’s just that it’s an incomplete metric.  Growth of what.  ...READ»

Growth? Part 1

“What you measure affects what you do,” according to Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in a recent New York Times cover story.  Every CEO I know agrees.  So, in the middle of an oxymoronic ‘jobless ...READ»

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The Golden Rule of Business

Do business with others as you would have them do business with you.As it is said — this is the whole of the Law; the rest is commentary.‘Do unto others’ is the sum total of every inspiring word every written or spoken about ...READ»

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200 Green Business Ideas

Just for starters....in virtually every industryREAD»

There's No Such Thing as Green Clothing. So Here's How You Make It.

Today, Treehugger points us to an interesting interview with fashion designer Lika Volkova, in which she calls bullshit on a mushrooming business trend: Green clothing. As Volkova points out, making any clothing is inextricably ...READ»