It’s not often that you hear a conservative, traditional, esteemed financial guru advocating civil disobedience. So it is fair to let you read why they advocate an energetic voice of change. The summary is: Times are far more desperate than we think and we need to change the system to become sustainable with the utmost …
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Radical opening up of the auto industry
From The Ecologist: The open-source hydrogen car set to change the industry by Alex McDonald Cars are evil, right? But what if they ran on hydrogen, did 300 miles per gallon, were leased rather than owned, and were produced under an open source business model… We have often been introduced to the car of tomorrow, …
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Over $ 1 trillion invested in green since 2007
A step in the right direction. But a long way to go. That’s about as much as Exxon’s revenues over 2 years. Washington, DC – December 4, 2009 – Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil) and The Climate Prosperity Alliance today launched their Global Climate Prosperity Scoreboard® which tracks private investment in companies growing the …
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Google has acquired Gizmo5
Gizmo5 is another (a better?) VOIP, like Skype. The official announcement is here. It’s probably a good thing for Michael Robertson, the entrepreneur who started Gizmo5 and Lindows/Linspire. Hopefully it will take some of the pressure off him. A shame it had to be the big one. Apart from the issues raised by google-watch, it …
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Guide to Socially Responsible Investment
See here the Guide to Socially Responsible Investment by NEF (pdf).
Green rankings for US big 500 companies
Newsweek has produced a ranking of America’s 500 biggest companies according to green criteria. It is useful to get a quick overview of the initiatives taken by America’s biggest companies. However, the ranking omits companies that are much greener, like Interface, because they are not in the biggest 500. It is also noteworthy that there …
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Microfinance debate – Ethical Corp
Debate: Microcredit – Is microfinance helping to reduce poverty? No, says Aneel Karnani of Michigan’s Ross Business School Yes, says Filipe Santos of international business school Insead Round one Microcredit does not work Dear Filipe, Microcredit is the newest silver bullet for alleviating poverty. Enthusiasm for microcredit has attracted untold billions of dollars from governments, …
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Greenwash undermines green living – the 7 sins of greenwash.
Natural. Non-toxic. Biodegradable. It’s possible for manufacturers to cover a multitude of environmental sins with a carefully – if inaccurately – chosen word. And most of them do, as a US House of Representatives committee on greenwash recently found. 98% of the products claiming to be environmentally friendly are guilty of greenwash. That in itself …
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Carbon risks and opportunities in the S&P 500
Carbon risks and opportunities in the S&P 500 a report by TruCost, commissioned by IRRCi, finds the carbon intensity of companies varies widely even within sectors. This has important implications for investors: * Companies that are less carbon intensive than their sector peers stand to gain competitive advantage from proposed ‘polluter pays’ cap-and-trade regulation. * …
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development news digest
Just linking around … A handy digest of international business news relevant to sustainable business. A free subscription is available for this fortnightly newsletter. Sign up here or read articles on the WBCSD website here.