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The Plateau of the Electric Car
The paradox is that electric cars are perfectly suited for short trips. Charge your car at home overnight or at the office during the day and you’ll drive worry free. But the economics make sense only if the car is driven a lot.[read more]
Miya: Delivering Clean Drinking Water, at Scale
Last week in Israel, I learned about company that is only six years old but has already delivered safe drinking water to two million people in a single city–Manila. Called Miya, the company also has projects underway in Brazil, South Africa and the Bahamas.[read more]
In Israel, Clean Tech is Not a New Thing
Today, Israel, which has been dubbed 'Startup Nation,' remains a seedbed of clean tech innovation. Last year, it ranked second in the world behind Denmark. “We’re a risk-taking nation,” Jack Levy of Israel Cleantech Ventures says. “Failure is part of life. You learn from failure, and keep going.”[read more]
Transparency is the Key to Sustainability
The Transparency Index
The Transparency Index is a global ranking system based loosely on the Global Reporting Initiative framework. Transparency is assessed in four areas: Reporting, content, navigation, and accessibility. In the top 20 countries so far are companies from South Africa, Ukraine, Israel, and Russia.[read more]
Dripping Sustainability at Campbell's Soup
Screenshot: Drop by Drop
Campbell's Soup has invested in water management with its agricultural growers to minimize waste, including implementing drip irrigation. Elaine Cohen presents a study on the benefits and a video of the communities involved.[read more]
Wasting paper, #CSR #FAIL in Cell Phones
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Elaine Cohen points out that a cell phone company which claims to care about sustainability is sending 7 invoices for one account, each month.[read more]
The Israeli Cottage Cheese Monopoly: Who Moved My Cottage Cheese 2.0?
Cottage cheese is a staple in the Israeli diet, but the price has risen by 39% since 2008, in part because 70% of the market is held by one company. A social media campaign brought a crisis to the industry which sparked a conversation about regulation.[read more]
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Sustainable Business Forum
Ted Coine Ted Coiné is one of the most influential business leaders on Twitter and author of the book Catalyst. More »
Richard Crespin Richard Crespin is an entrepreneur and CSR adviser to executives. More »
Marc Gunther Marc Gunther is a contributing editor at FORTUNE magazine who writes and speaks about business and sustainability. More »
Kimberly Knickle Kim Knickle is a frequent conference speaker, and is responsible for research and analysis of business and IT issues. More »
Dave Meyer Dave Meyer is the founder and principal of ValueStream Performance Advisors. More »
Derek Wong Derek Wong is a Toronto based sustainability consultant. More »
“CindyTotally agree that a focus on forward looking targets and reporting against progress in following years is an improvement that's needed in sustainability reporting. I hope that integrated reporting can support this. It's great to see leaders like SAP showing the way, especially as many of the organisations I've worked with have struggled most around the data ...”
“Well done and fully support and encourage your calling out for leaders to look beyond themselves, their ego's, status and all that has caused them to be self-serving leaders. To get themselves out of the way so as to see their own truth and reality, their true potential and especially the potential of all those 'under' them.I have a similar 'heart-longing' as yours as can be seen by what I have ...”