Response: Driving Sustainability From Within Business
Rather than canning the circular-economy concept altogether, business leaders and policy makers should prioritize sufficiency over recycling.
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Response: Investing in the Transition to a Less Wasteful Future
Opportunities for innovative solutions exist across all areas of the value chain, including design, supply chain technologies, and molecular recycling.
Response: Using Industrial Symbiosis to Address Barriers to Circularity
Collaboration is an essential driver for discovering and scaling innovative approaches that can move the fashion industry toward circularity.
A Circle That Isn’t Easily Squared
As the fashion industry’s environmental footprint attracts increasingly negative attention, circular business models are promoting opportunities to sustain growth by decoupling revenue streams from resource use.
In this Up for Debate series, Ken Pucker, former Timberland COO, explains the industry’s turn to circularity and the barriers to its adoption, then researchers and experts in the sector respond.
Putting the SDGs Back on Track
Worldwide SDG efforts are failing. How can businesses do their part to make things right?
Open access to this article is made possible by a research grant from E4S (Enterprise for Society Center)
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Engaging Employees to Create a Sustainable Business
The key to creating a vibrant and sustainable company is to find ways to get all employees personally engaged in day-to-day corporate sustainability efforts.
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 Greening of Wal-Mart
For much of its history, Wal-Mart’s corporate management team toiled inside its “Bentonville Bubble,” narrowly focused on operational efficiency, growth, and profits. But now the world's largest retailer has widened its sights, building networks of employees, nonprofits, government agencies, and suppliers to “green” its supply chains. Here's how and why the world’s largest retailer is using a network approach to decrease its environmental footprint – and to increase its profitability.
Protest Movements Could Be More Effective Than the Best Charities
To do as much good as possible with limited resources, funders should look to woefully underfunded protest movements.
The Case for Causal AI
Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.