Author Archives: Dave Witzel

11/14: Talking "Short-termism," Business and Society with Aspen's Judy Samuelson

By Dave Witzel | Bio | Published: November 9, 2011

A “Future of Green” Open Conference Call During his speech at the recent BSR Conference, Al Gore said that short-term decision-making in business was “functionally insane,” explaining "It's not only insane where the values that we share are concerned; it's functionally insane where the well-being of that business is concerned… It's the wrong decision for [...]

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Innovation Innovating (and “Please, come to Boston”)

By Dave Witzel | Bio | Published: November 3, 2011

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Growing GIBN Conference Call: Overview of Innovation Innovating ActivitiesOpen conference call and discussion on the variety of sustainability innovation activities.11/8 at 2pm ET Dial-in: Phone: (760) 569-9000; Code: 160031# Online Brainstorming: How can the Internet drive innovation for sustainable business Join the Dell/EDF Storm Session. Register and then login to comment and vote. [...]

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Not a Particle of Waste

By Dave Witzel | Bio | Published: October 12, 2011

Last year WBCSD released “Vision 2050: The new agenda for business,” its pathway to a world of 9 billion people living well, within the resource limits of the planet. On a Future of Green call we talked about this report with Bob Horn who helped illustrate the complex path required. Today, I’m in Orlando to [...]

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Monday: Kramer Brings "Shared Value" to Conference Call

By Dave Witzel | Bio | Published: June 23, 2011

Alert: This call has been delayed 15 minutes (until 4:15pm ET) Join the Call June 27, 2011 at 4pm ET (1pm PT). Phone number: +1 (213) 289-0500 Code: 267-6815 Mark Kramer, founder of consulting firm FSG and senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School, will join us on Monday, June 27 at 4pm ET (1pm PT) [...]

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3 Takeaways: Creating Shared Value by Porter & Kramer

By Dave Witzel | Bio | Published: May 4, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's Harvard Business Review article Creating Shared Value [Requires Registration] caught some attention in my office. As part of our sporadic series, here are my three takeaways from the article. Takeaway 1: "Shared Value" leads to different thinking Discussing Shared Value Two opportunities to discuss these concepts: Creating Shared Value in [...]

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A Deeper-dive on Expanding Sustainability Initiatives

By Dave Witzel | Bio | Published: May 3, 2011

More than 40 people joined April's Growing GIBN call with Jeramy Lemieux of Diversey to learn about Diversey's portfolio management approach to enabling internal sustainability initiatives (notes and a recording of the call are available on the GIBN wiki). We are hoping to continue this high level of participation in May with two Growing GIBN opportunities. [...]

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Future of Green Call: Aron Cramer, Take 2

By Dave Witzel | Bio | Published: April 14, 2011

On February 28, we had a very interesting discussion with Aron Cramer, President and CEO of Business for Social Responsibility. Unfortunately, technology failed us. We had a lot of interference and drop-outs on the call which both interrupted the flow and made it impossible to get a clean recording for the podcast series. I apologize [...]

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Future of Green Podcast: 3 Tips, 2 Warnings and a Conundrum

By Dave Witzel | Bio | Published: March 9, 2011

New Sustainable Business Models Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email It turns out that getting two entrepreneurs, both interested in stretching the potential of business to be sustainable, onto a phone call about their work can lead to a mighty interesting conversation. Robin Chase, co-founder of Zipcar and GoLoco, and [...]

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From Green "Innovations" to Green "Innovators"

By Dave Witzel | Bio | Published: March 1, 2011

Over the past two years we’ve worked with people around the country to host a series of events to discuss how to make business more environmentally sustainable. The events began in 2009 with a set of open space "unconferences," which throughout 2010 evolved into "Solutions Labs." This new and improved format preserved participation of all [...]

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Future of Green Call Monday: Phone Number Change

By Dave Witzel | Bio | Published: February 27, 2011

Aron Cramer, President and CEO of Business for Social Responsibility, will join us for a Future of Green Open Conference Call on February 28 at 1:30 p.m. ET (10:30 a.m. PT) to talk about his recent book Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World. (To whet your interest, here are my 3 [...]

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