Farming is under pressure globally—from climate change, water scarcity, soil erosion—as well as from increasing demand caused by a growing and more affluent population. In response, the past few years have seen an explosion of demand for sustainably farmed products by consumer goods brands such as Kraft, Mars, Unilever and Caribou Coffee and retailers such as Whole...
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CAN companies succeed where governments have failed to protect the environment? The question was repeatedly asked in Rio de Janeiro this week, at the UN’s vast three-day environment summit, which was due to end on June 22nd. That was largely a sign of desperation. Despite the presence of scores of heads of state, Rio+20, as the summit is known, was expected to...
The ICTSD website noted that open innovation has received relatively little attention in policy discussions about the role of innovation in building a more sustainable future. In this context, the GreenXchange (GX) platform launched by Nike and nine other organizations in 2010 merits closer examination. A web-based marketplace for intellectual property, the GX was founded...
The Sustainablebrands website notes that rapid advancements in technology are changing the way companies gather and share knowledge, and most importantly the efficiency with which new ideas are discovered and brought to market. Crowdsourcing, open innovation and social enterprise technology are just some of the platforms allowing companies to tap into a new and diverse...
From Stanford Social Innovation Review John Elkington is an optimist. In his new book, Elkington, an authority on corporate responsibility and coiner of the term “triple bottom line,” argues that a new set of entrepreneurs in business, government, and universities are stepping up and taking actions that will help us to reinvent capitalism, combat climate change, and...
Sustainability may still not be on the top of everyone’s priority list, but those who do take green action get results, and big ones. Chris Sherwin, Head of Sustainability at Seymourpowell, shares his reaction to this year’s Fast Company 50, where a few pleasantly surprising sustainability innovators could be found among the trend setters. Go to Source ...
This paper offers two starting points bridged by a question: The first point is the field of sustainability concepts that can help transform a resource-wasting society into a sustainable one. Similar Products: Powered by Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean :: Amazon Until now, the...
