Why Energy Philanthropy Is High-Impact Philanthropy
Energy is central to many causes that funders care about, but it is one of the most underappreciated issues in 21st-century philanthropy.
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The Embedded Enterprise
To reach base-of-the-pyramid markets, entrepreneurs need to align their business models with customers’ lives.
The Case for Energy Abundance
An alternate paradigm for climate and energy.
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Cheap and Clean
Cheap and Clean explores how, more than anything else, beliefs about the costs and environmental harms associated with certain fuels drive opinions about energy and climate change policy.
Fossil Fuels: Turning Off the Tap
Divestment is the necessary first step to building the new economy.
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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.
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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.