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Unsustainable behaviors follow predictable patterns of addiction. If you want to change the amount of energy Americans waste, follow the same game plan that cut smoking and teen pregnancy in half: stigmatize it.[read more]

Integrated Reporting is underway in a handful of companies worldwide. Initial efforts are good, but some bad habits of not connecting the environmental and social to financial dots permeates nearly each one. Simply adding your financial statements to your sustainability report and vice versa is not enough.[read more]

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Becoming more eco-friendly, or going green, will benefit both the environment and your business. For one, it cuts down on costs. By saving money in certain areas, you can spend more in other areas, such as marketing to grow your business, or just take more of a profit.[read more]

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When you get sick, you go to a doctor. When your company gets sick, it’s hard to know where to turn, and a bad culture is not a minor cold — it’s a chronic disease.[read more]

You do not have to save the world from an Armageddon; rather the world needs something more important from you and that is making your workplace and home more environmentally sustainable.[read more]

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There are many reasons as to why a company may want to “go green,” or become environmentally friendly. Yes, going green does protect the environment, but it can be good for your company as well.[read more]

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When big multi-nationals commit to sustainability they do so recognizing the challenge as well as the massive opportunity to make a difference. The most successful companies commit fully to the strategy.[read more]

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An expert in public policy and sustainability reviews the City of Santa Monica's latest report on community life-work balance.[read more]

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A benchmark report conducted by Blackbaud shows that 70 percent of first-time donors will not give again. This guide outlines five effective retention strategies to turn first-time givers into lifetime supporters.[read more]

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Best wishes to you and yours from us and ours.[read more]

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Business owners have a long list of things they are responsible for; encouraging work safety among their employees is one of these. Not only do they need to do this for the safety of their employees, but also for their own liability. Safety also comes in many forms, from physical safety from injury to personal safety from harassment.[read more]

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Bring the convenience and ease to your customers by giving them the privilege or rather, the luxury of just swiping their credit cards as their preferred form of payment for the goods or the services that they acquired.[read more]

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Communication plays a very important role whether it is used for personal, social, professional or business purposes. With technology trying to conquer the business world, the impact of visual conferencing to businesses has proved to be more promising as ever. Visual conference calls actually need the participation of both end users and the technological systems. The main objective of Internet conference calls is to create an effective and convenient communication bridge among people from all over the world despite the geographical differences.[read more]

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Buying local and manufacturing local is not only good for maintaining a sustainable chain, it’s also good for considering the environment in your business.[read more]

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In a market where consumers--both residential and commercial--are giving recognition to their carbon footprint and taking control of their consumption, energy suppliers, technology companies, and even the government is getting involved--making consumption data more accessible, creating initiatives that make these partnerships more...[read more]

I spoke with a few software executives last month on how corporations can best utilize technology to truly impact the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) of people, planet and profit, and I wanted to take a moment to share their insights.[read more]

TQM is one of the most durable management innovations of the past three decades, and it has been implemented worldwide in service, manufacturing, private, public, large and small organizations. Corporate Social Responsibility, on the other hand, is a more recent phenomenon and dates back to the 1980s.[read more]

Emergence of social business tools which allow for organizations to create “sustainable business networks” create new, real-time opportunities to proactively manage objectives across the supply chain. The concept of sustainability across those value chains and social business networks as a means to communicate our own measures of sustainable performance is a fairly recent development over the past 2-3 years.[read more]

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With the finances being equal – how is an executive supposed to determine whether it’s better to save XX tons of CO2 or YY acre-feet of water? The problem is that there isn’t a common, universally accepted language for environmental sustainability that allows for like comparisons of different projects.[read more]

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As social media platforms mature, organizations are looking to leverage social and informal communications internally for business programs. These social business tools, available now as both extensions to proprietary environments and as open source, stand-alone platforms, create new opportunities for executives and program managers to “hone their strategic message” platform and to gain adoption for sustainability efforts inside the organization.[read more]