Natural Capital: A New Force in Strategic Planning
The concept of natural capital is catching on with strategic planners, enhancing both corporate sustainability and bottom lines.
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Innovative ways to improve access to basic human needs (more)
The Water Cycle with a Human Twist
The urban water supply cycle faces an exciting opportunity—large-scale conversion of sewage waste into drinkable water.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
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Don Gould - Pure Water 4 All
When people ask Don Gould how he knows that his product works, he answers: "Because babies stop dying." As part of a social enterprise consortium, Gould, who is both a product designer and ceramicist, helped to design and deploy simple, effective water filtration devices to the developing world. In this audio interview, he talks with Globeshakers host Tim Zak about both the traditional production techniques and the new economy models for collaboration.