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4 Lessons the Sharing Economy Can Learn From Microfinance

The connection between microfinance and sharing economy might look a bit strange at first, but these two have actually quite […]

Raz Godelnik

January 9, 2013

Finance

3 Drivers That Will Push Sustainability into an Investment Megatrend in 2013

There are three drivers that are pushing sustainability into an investment megatrend in 2013. Driver #1: Emerging sustainability accounting standards […]

Bill Roth

January 9, 2013

Finance

Is Al Gore a Hypocrite for Selling Current TV To Al Jazeera?

Last week Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Network announced that it will acquire the American cable news channel Current TV. Co-founded […]

Leon Kaye

January 8, 2013

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Have Millennials Evolved from Buying to Sharing? Not Really.

Here’s a mantra you probably heard a lot in 2012: Millennials don’t shop that much these days. They share instead. […]

Raz Godelnik

January 8, 2013

Finance

Policy Points: New Rules for a New Economy

By Jeffrey Hollender Consider this common scenario: raw materials are extracted from the earth, transported to a processing facility and […]

American Sustainable Business Council

January 8, 2013

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Launch of the TriplePundit Sharing Economy Series

It gives us great pleasure to announce the launch of The Rise of the Sharing Economy, our first crowdfunded article […]

Nick Aster

January 7, 2013

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Is the Sharing Economy an Opportunity or a Threat to Existing Businesses?

Manufacturers use the term “excess capacity” to refer to an underutilized asset that is not being fully exploited to create […]

RP Siegel

January 7, 2013

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Joining the Sharing Economy Has Never Been Easier

Why build new hotels when millions of rooms in private homes around the world are left empty? This simple question […]

Harry Stevens

January 7, 2013

Finance

Will a Tool for Measuring Sustainability Benefit Maine?

By Heidi Sistare “Sustainability is much more than environment,” says Timothy Downing, President of Duratherm Window Corporation. “It pertains to your […]

TriplePundit

January 7, 2013

Finance

Top Sustainable Business Strategies from 2012

By Dr. Ram Nidumolu As you go about developing or revising your strategies for making your business more sustainable, it […]

TriplePundit

January 4, 2013

Finance

Prince Charles: CSR Must "Future Proof" Business

Prince Charles’ think-tank, A4S or “The Prince’s Accounting For Sustainability Project”, recently published an insightful new report called “Future Proofed […]

Amelia Timbers

January 3, 2013

Finance

The Year for Big Coal – Not So Big

Actually, it was big in the sense of big losses and setbacks for the coal industry’s agenda and that, in […]

Bill DiBenedetto

January 2, 2013

Finance

Honda's Pink Minivan Reminds Marketers that Stereotypes Can Backfire

You have to hand it to Honda, its release of a pink-chiffon-colored minivan was a bold move, one that might […]

Jan Lee

January 2, 2013

Finance

Where SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) Doesn’t Work

The following is part of a series by our friends at CSRHub (a 3p sponsor) – offering free sustainability and corporate social […]

CSRHub

January 2, 2013

Finance

The Sustainable Workplace: Training Your Successor

This is part of a series of articles by MBA students at California College of the Arts dMBA program. Follow along […]

CCA LiveE

January 2, 2013

Finance

Forget the Fiscal Cliff – Will the Climate Cause the Next Recession?

Even with the debt ceiling and fiscal cliff looming,  a UN Environmental Program report global suggests that capital markets are […]

Amelia Timbers

January 1, 2013

Finance

Puma's New Natural Capital Accounting Framework Receives a Thumbs Up From Experts

When hearing about new sustainability initiatives, especially ambitious and comprehensive ones, one tends to assume that the companies announcing them […]

Raz Godelnik

December 31, 2012

Finance

2012: Four Trends in Sustainable Consumption

Market research firm Mintel reported earlier this month that the total sales of hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric cars is expected […]

Raz Godelnik

December 28, 2012

Finance

Record Number of U.S. Companies Issuing Sustainability Reports

2011 was the first year ever that a majority of companies in the S&P 500 publicly disclosed their sustainability performance, […]

Harry Stevens

December 26, 2012

Finance

Making a Case for Better Business Results? Be a Better Corporate Citizen

Boston College’s Center for Corporate Citizenship recently released its annual report on the state of corporate citizenship. For corporate social […]

Leon Kaye

December 26, 2012

Finance

Designing a More Sustainable & Green Business by Looking at Immigrant Culture

This is part of a series of articles by MBA students at California College of the Arts dMBA program. Follow along […]

CCA LiveE

December 25, 2012

Finance

Pizza, Profits and Politics: Can an Aggressive Political Opinion Affect the Bottom-Line?

This is part of a series of articles by MBA students at California College of the Arts dMBA program. Follow along […]

CCA LiveE

December 23, 2012

Finance

2012: Top 10 Sustainable Start-Ups

Alan Kay famously said, “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” In 2012 we had many entrepreneurs […]

Raz Godelnik

December 21, 2012

Finance

Hijacked Starbucks Twitter Campaign in the UK Ends Up an Epic Cluster F-F-F Frappuccino

Starbucks United Kingdom suffered an epic social media fail when a limey in the regional office decided it would be […]

Leon Kaye

December 21, 2012

Finance

New Report Offers 5 Lessons on the Perceptions of Manufacturers and Consumers

If you still wonder what manufacturers and consumers think about sustainability UL (Underwriters Laboratories) is here to help. A couple […]

Raz Godelnik

December 20, 2012

Finance

Swiss Recycling Efficiency in Egyptian Slums

This is part of a series of articles by MBA students at California College of the Arts dMBA program. Follow along […]

CCA LiveE

December 20, 2012

Finance

How Walmart’s Bribery in Mexico Soiled One of The World’s Most Sacred Historic Sites

2012 has not been the kindest year for Walmart and its corporate social responsibility agenda, and the year is closing […]

Leon Kaye

December 19, 2012

Finance

Shared Value in Conservation: Fewer Carrots and Sticks, More Designers

This is part of a series of articles by MBA students at California College of the Arts dMBA program. Follow along […]

CCA LiveE

December 18, 2012

Finance

Survey Shows Mechanical Engineers Embrace Sustainable Design

Many times we tend to focus on what CEOs or CFOs think about sustainability and its integration in their organizations. […]

Raz Godelnik

December 14, 2012

Finance

Pipeline Fellowship Churns out Women Angel Investors, Funded Startups

On a recent Friday morning in a classroom at San Francisco’s Golden Gate University, 10 women entrepreneurs shuffled to a […]

Lonnie Shekhtman

December 14, 2012

Finance

Will the New Social Impact Bond Right Society’s Wrongs?

There’s a new kid on the impact-investing block: young and full of promise, yet easily susceptible to bureaucracy. I’m referring […]

Lonnie Shekhtman

December 14, 2012

Finance

The Real Connection Between Taxes and Jobs

The whole world is watching anxiously as the U.S. government goes careening towards the fiscal cliff, where automatic tax hikes […]

RP Siegel

December 12, 2012

Finance

Students Demand University Endowments Stop Investing in Fossil Fuel Stocks

Last week, the New York Times reported on a growing trend in campuses across the U.S. – college students are demanding […]

Raz Godelnik

December 12, 2012

Finance

Advice for Entrepreneurs on Workforce Engagement

By Drew Bewick Advice is particularly valuable for would-be entrepreneurs, innovators, business professionals, and future leaders when developing a business […]

Maryland

December 11, 2012

Finance

The Netflix Billion Hour Nasty-Gram: Time for SEC to Catch Up With Social Media?

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, no stranger to controversy, is in hot water with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The […]

Leon Kaye

December 10, 2012

Finance

Metabolix Applies Biotech to Plant-Based Economy Development

Continuing the theme of the bio-based economy, I would like to profile Metabolix, a Massachusetts-based company specializing in the production […]

RP Siegel

December 7, 2012

Finance

Open Letter to Bank of America

This open letter is a project of the 2012 Presidio Graduate School’s Capital Markets class.  To read more letters, visit the […]

Presidio Capital Markets

December 7, 2012

Finance

Bay Area Startup Motiv to Electrify Chicago’s Garbage Trucks

Motiv Power Systems, a Bay Area startup, recently landed a $13.4 million contract to start electrifying Chicago’s garbage trucks. The […]

Leon Kaye

December 5, 2012

Finance

Fiscal Cliff Solution: Tax Problems, Not People

The power of sticker price is meaningful to everyone from five-year-olds to CEOs. The solution to our fiscal cliff is […]

Bill Roth

December 4, 2012

Finance

How to Keep Biofuels Sustainable

While the bio-based economy should be more sustainable than the alternative – any good idea can be implemented poorly. I […]

RP Siegel

December 3, 2012

Finance

Recognizing Game-Changing Non-Profit Leaders

With rich examples and inspiring details, Everyday Heroes celebrates nonprofit leaders and impactful social entrepreneurs. Portraits by Paul Mobley (see […]

Shivani Ganguly

December 3, 2012

Finance

Sustainable Fiscal Cliff Solutions

Frustratingly, the fiscal cliff crisis is focused on the wrong problem. The question is not how much to tax the […]

Bill Roth

December 3, 2012

Finance

Passenger Complaint Site Leaves United Fit to Be Untied

In another case of attorneys bullying a web site because of technicalities over trademark and copyright infringement, United Airlines’ lawyers […]

Leon Kaye

November 30, 2012

Finance

Ghana Explores a Truly Renewable Fuel Resource: Human Waste

As gas prices continue to elevate across the globe, both political instability and biological limits provide an ever present threat […]

Paul S

November 30, 2012

Finance

Why PSY and Gangnam Style Demolish Cultural and Socioeconomic Barriers

When PSY first dreamed up Gangnam Style, he claimed he only wanted to create a video and a song with […]

Leon Kaye

November 29, 2012

Finance

How Impact Investing Can Expand Environmental Entrepreneurship

This post originally appeared on WRI Insights. By Giulia Christianson The Global Impact Investment Network defines impact investing as “investments […]

TriplePundit

November 29, 2012

Finance

The Resurrection: The Carbon Tax Returns?

By Brady McCartney President Barack Obama’s reelection has shifted the formal and informal U.S. Congressional debate from the election to […]

bard-students

November 28, 2012

Finance

The CSR Christmas List: Who’s Naughty and Who Is Nice?

This month Consumer Reports came out with a “Naughty and Nice” list that focuses on what companies preached and compared […]

Leon Kaye

November 27, 2012

Finance

Mississippi Coal Plant Delayed, Over Budget

Here’s a juicy taste of coal plant greenwashing. A report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis reveals […]

Bill DiBenedetto

November 27, 2012

Finance

How Boredom Promulgates Creativity in Business

This is part of a series of articles by MBA students at California College of the Arts dMBA program. Follow […]

CCA LiveE

November 27, 2012

Finance

Loss of Natural Capital is a Risk to Countries’ Credit Ratings

The sovereign debt crises in countries around the world has preoccupied the financial markets. But there is another emerging challenge […]

Leon Kaye

November 26, 2012

Finance

Can Socially Responsible Investments Push Our Economy Forward?

What is the most successful green market in the U.S. in terms of both market share and volume? No, it’s […]

Raz Godelnik

November 26, 2012

Finance

How Business Plan Competitions Can Jump-Start a Social Enterprise

By Geri Stengel What do investors know that donors don’t? They know that the right team is critical to growing […]

TriplePundit

November 26, 2012

Finance

Andrew Winston Explains Why We Need More Paul Polmans

On election night, while his fellow Republican, Karl Rove, was arguing about the election results in Ohio, former economic speechwriter […]

Raz Godelnik

November 26, 2012

Finance

Black Friday Today, Personal Sustainability Tomorrow

Looking for an alternative? Explore the sharing economy By Adam Werbach and Andy Ruben Today we’re launching yerdle, a purpose-driven […]

TriplePundit

November 23, 2012

Finance

Stick It to Black Friday 2012 by Shopping At Stores That Truly Help Others

Looking for an alternative? Explore the sharing economy While some of us prefer to stay warm and snuggle in our […]

Leon Kaye

November 23, 2012

Finance

The Demise of Hostess: Businesses Need Purpose

By David Thomas The disintegration of Hostess Foods is telling for sustainability advocates. How does a company as big and […]

TriplePundit

November 23, 2012

Finance

Thanksgiving Night Store Openings Prompt Employee Complaints

Looking for an alternative? Explore the sharing economy This year, Walmart is opening at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving for Black […]

Gina-Marie Cheeseman

November 21, 2012

Finance

Portland Small Businesses Join Together to Increase Black Friday Sales

Looking for an alternative? Explore the sharing economy Small business owners are constantly on the lookout for ways to increase […]

Jan Lee

November 21, 2012

Finance

Going Once, Going Twice…California Auctions First Carbon Permits

Yesterday California announced the results from its first ever auction of carbon allowances, which was held on Wednesday last week. […]

Emilie Mazzacurati

November 20, 2012

Finance

Giving Tuesday, Nov 27, is a Perfect Antidote to Black Friday

Looking for an alternative? Explore the sharing economy With stores such as Walmart, Kmart, Target and Best Buy set to […]

Leon Kaye

November 19, 2012

Finance

Why We're Trying Crowdfunding

If you’d like to support us, please click here to be directed to our campaign on Indiegogo. When people hear that I […]

jennifer boynton

November 17, 2012

Finance

The Challenge of Strengthening Global Environmental Entrepreneurship

This post originally appeared on WRI Insights. By Aram Kang and Giulia Christianson One of the greatest challenges of our […]

TriplePundit

November 16, 2012

Finance

Transforming Landfills into Sustainable Businesses One Wiggler at a Time

High in the northern mountains of Guatemala, near the ancient city of Quetzaltenango, there’s an unusual new venture that is […]

Jan Lee

November 16, 2012

Finance

Business Community's Support of Same-Sex Marriage Pivotal in 2012 Elections

Business may have played a significant role in defeating the Minnesota ballot measure which would have created a constitutional amendment […]

Harry Stevens

November 15, 2012

Finance

Zappos CEO Turning Vegas into a Tech and Culture Hub

With a grand vision, plenty of moxie and a pocket full of cash (so to speak), Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh […]

Lonnie Shekhtman

November 14, 2012

Finance

Despite Increased U.S. Oil Production, Pump Prices Continue to Rise

The International Energy Agency (IEA) World Energy Outlook for 2012 has received tremendous media attention by forecasting that the U.S. […]

Bill Roth

November 14, 2012

Finance

The Business Case for Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Business and biodiversity haven’t mixed well, historically. The confluence of several significant trends—population growth, natural resource and materials scarcity, ongoing […]

Andrew Burger

November 13, 2012

Finance

Soros Economic Development Fund Invests in Clean Cookstove Project

A little over a year ago, I wrote a about CleanStar, a multi-faceted, collaborative program in Mozambique that simultaneously addresses […]

RP Siegel

November 12, 2012

Finance

The Good of Flexible Purpose Corporations

This article has been edited since it was first published. By Deborah Sweeney Back in January of this year, California […]

TriplePundit

November 12, 2012

Finance

What Worker Cooperatives Actually Look Like

Factories. Industrial fabrication. Greenhouse farming. Solar generation plants. Banks. Whatever you might imagine worker-owned businesses to look like, Melissa Young […]

Hannah Miller

November 9, 2012

Finance

Companies and MBAs Test New Sustainability SWOT

This post was originally published on WRI Insights. By Eliot Metzger At last week’s Net Impact conference, WRI challenged teams […]

TriplePundit

November 7, 2012