Category Archives: Future of Green

Where You'll Find Us in November

By | Published: November 11, 2011

The wild November come at last! Here's a list of where we've been and where we will be this month. The Social Enterprise Alliance Conference was held on October 30-November 2 in Chicago, where Beth Trask spoke on a panel. Victoria Mills and Dave Witzel visited the capital on October 31-November 2 for a panel [...]

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

By | 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 | 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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Future of Green Call: What Defense Can Tell Business

By | Published: May 20, 2011

Future of Green Open Conference Call with Daniel Kreeger from ACCO On Tuesday, May 24th at noon ET, EDF will host a “Future of Green” open conference call with Daniel Kreeger, Executive Director of ACCO, to talk about conclusions from the Defense, National Security and Climate Change workshop and what business can take-away from the [...]

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Where You'll Find Us in May

By | Published: May 2, 2011

May has certainly sprung on us this year! Can you believe that we are in our fifth month of 2011 already? To kick things off, Victoria Mills is speaking today at The 2nd Annual Massachusetts Sustainable Economy Conference in Boston. On May 3, Andrew Hutson, Audrey Davenport and Katie Ware are attending the Corporate Ecosystem [...]

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Future of Green Call: Aron Cramer, Take 2

By | 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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Discuss Portfolios for Sustainability with Diversey's Jeramy Lemieux

By | Published: April 6, 2011

Let’s talk about how to make important reductions in carbon emissions while saving significant amounts of cash. Last month Greenbiz’s John Davies profiled Diversey, Inc.’s portfolio management approach to enabling internal sustainability initiatives. Davies explained that the approach “focused on achieving significant greenhouse gas reductions coupled with an attractive return on investment.”  He reported the [...]

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

By | 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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Future of Green Call Monday: Phone Number Change

By | 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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3 Takeaways: Sustainable Excellence by Cramer and Karabell

By | Bio | Published: February 22, 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 p.m. PT) to talk about his recent book Sustainable Excellence. We're in the age of information. Currently, there is a host of rich material from many [...]

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