Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?
As ecosystems of networked organizations, cities provide the necessary scale, reach, and resources to bridge the gap between small experiments and big problems.
Environment Innovations in environmental protection and conserving natural resources
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The Missing Tool in the Climate Fight
Market-shaping interventions in global health provide a powerful model for the struggle to decarbonize the economy.
The Problem with Carbon Offsets
Carbon offset programs enable affluent states and corporations to greenwash and pose serious threats to Indigenous peoples’ rights. Consider the case of the LEAF Coalition’s partnership with Ecuador.
Growing the Green Workforce
Chicago-based nonprofit Openlands created an arborist apprenticeship program to train the next generation of arborists to maintain the city’s urban forest.
Air-Pollution Knowledge Is Power
Tweets about local air quality from US embassies around the world reduced local pollution and improved health.
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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.