Business
6 SSIR Articles on Business Sustainability
A reading list of our articles examining how businesses should define and achieve sustainability.
Tag: Climate Change
Business
The Next Phase of Business Sustainability
The era of corporations integrating sustainable practices is being surpassed by a new age of corporations actively transforming the market to make it more sustainable. Open access to this article is made possible by The Regents of the University of Michigan on behalf of the Erb Institute.
Advocacy
Four Strategies for Large Systems Change
To create systems of societal change, we need to become clearer about the archetypes of societal change strategies, their strengths and weaknesses, and their interactions.
Philanthropy & Funding
The Civic Science Imperative
Philanthropy has a vital role to play in building a culture of “civic science,” in which scientists take active roles as citizens and citizens engage with scientific research. | Open access to this article made possible by the Rita Allen Foundation
Advocacy
Waging Lawfare to Save the Planet
ClientEarth has taken a US-style legal strategy of protecting the environment across the Atlantic and found surprising success.
Food
Algae for Food and Green Jobs
EnerGaia is growing spirulina to feed people and help the environment.
Environment
After Big Data: The Coming Age of “Big Indicators”
How remote-sensing technologies and artificial intelligence will enable new insights into our toughest global problems.
Food
Feeding the Future of Agriculture with Vertical Farming
The technology-driven model of agriculture may offer a means to address farm output and food security in the years to come.
Advocacy
Speaking Out When Our Values Are in Play
Five critical questions to guide the work of nonprofit communicators.
Environment
How a Nobel Prize in Economics Could Help Solve the Climate Crisis
A growing body of research that explains how human behavior helped create the climate crisis could also point the way toward solving it.