Rio+20: Is a $513 Billion Down Payment Enough?
Advances in reducing poverty, environmental protection, and other global issues threaten the status quo—a report from Rio+20.
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Solar Power in a Suitcase
In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman talks with Laura Stachel and Hal Aronson, co-founders of WE CARE Solar, about their effort to combat this issue worldwide. WE CARE stands for Women’s Emergency Communication and Reliable Electricity.
Leveling the Playing Field
US Federal subsidies encourage waste and incentivize unsustainable business practices.
Filming Alternative Energy
Two documentaries explore the move from fossil fuels.
Sustainable Business Trends for 2012
Our greatest obstacles set the stage for new business opportunities in 2012 and beyond.
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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.
The Complicity of Corporate Sustainability
Long hailed as a major piece of the climate solution, sustainable business practices have not only fallen short: They even enable the continued dominance of fossil fuel.
Time to Put the Fossil-Fuel Industry Into Hospice
If humanity is to survive the climate crisis, we must manage a just and orderly transition away from fossil fuels. The correct models for this resolution are triage, euthanasia, and hospice.
Open-access to this article made possible by University of Michigan.
Roundtable on Shared Value
Executives from 10 major corporations discuss the innovative ways that they are putting societal issues at the core of their companies’ strategy and operations.
Picking Green Tech’s Winners and Losers
Unless clean tech follows well-established rules of innovation and commercialization, the industry’s promise to provide sustainable sources of energy will fail.