A Fresh Start for Conservation
The Trump Administration has given the environmental community an opportunity to become better listeners, reconnect with its core constituents, and tap into a little humility along the way.
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Planting Trees With Drones
To fight deforestation, a UK-based startup is using unmanned aerial vehicles that can plant seeds 60 times faster than humans can.
Winning Texas to Renewables
The Energy Foundation used a two-pronged strategy of engaging policy makers and grassroots activists to sell green electricity.
Innovative Solutions for Climate Change Need More than Money
Climate-change entrepreneurs need funding, but they also need the expertise, networking, and intellectual capital that incubators and foundations can provide.
Widening Our View of ESG Investing
Two strategies that can create greater environmental, social, and governance change than divestment while improving investment returns.
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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.