The Power of Being Seen
People are more apt to behave in socially responsible ways when they think that others might take notice.
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Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy
Creating Climate Wealth discusses business model innovations that will help battle the effects of climate change.
Deploying Proven Technology for Climate Change
Business model innovation is more important today than new technology innovation if we want to stave off the worst impacts of climate change.
Securing Our Energy Future
A cleaner, more decentralized energy system will provide a healthier and more secure future.
China’s Quest to Adopt Electric Vehicles
The Chinese government’s effort to create an electric vehicle industry illuminates the promise and peril of economic development policies.
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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.