Serving people, planet and profit: An 'integrated bottom-line' approach to looking at business for entrepreneurs, activists, and decision makers
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Every year the Worldwatch Institute publishes their annual State of the World Report. Each report outlines major factors effecting the sustainability and condition of human society and global environmental systems. In addition, each annual spotlights a specific topic of discussion. Recent issue of State of the World have focused on global security, the consumer society, China and India, and the future of urban society.
This year the focus is the growth in innovation and sustainability in business and the world economy.
“Environmental issues were once regarded as irrelevant to economic activity, but today they are dramatically rewriting the rules for business, investors, and consumers”.
-from the Worldwatch Institute website
Being acquainted only indirectly and mostly through media snippets with James Lovelock and colleagues' work developing the Gaia Hypothesis, now Theory, I expected to learn a lot and be intrigued enough to dig deeper into the literature dealing with climate change, systems science and energy. I haven't been disappointed...but I unexpectedly have found a source of seemingly dispassionate insight into the issue of nuclear power...[read more]
It seem as if all of us Triple P bloggers have carbon on the brain this week. This is no...[read more]
Over the past couple of weeks, I have read a number of reviews of the new book, The Trap:...[read more]
(Review by George Wuerthner) I just read an excellent book--Cities in the Wilderness by former Sec. of Interior Bruce Babbitt....[read more]
It's always nice to see a lot of hard work come to bear fruit. Josh Dorfman is a friend of...[read more]
In The Sustainability Revolution, Edwards has given us a neat presentation of both the evolution and main principles of the...[read more]
Natural Capitalism was published at a poignant moment in human history. As we edged toward the new millennium, it appeared...[read more]
In The Next Sustainability Wave, Bob Willard gives us an overview of the drivers for sustainability in the corporate...[read more]
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