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• Labor and Agricultural Sustainability: Sister Issues

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  This is the sixth post in a series on the business of sustainable agriculture by the folks at Bon Appétit Management, a company that provides café and catering services to corporations, colleges and universities. To read past posts, click here. By Carolina Fojo A “City Girl” in Sustainable Ag…? Driving through Illinois [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 4:05am EST
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• Re-Thinking Environmental Advocacy for the 21st-Century

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  By Martin Melaver In my circles, there’s an old Jewish joke that defines the beginning of life as the point in time when the dog dies and the kids go off to school. I’d like to add my own personal twist: when you step down as chairman of the board of [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 4:23am EST
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• Buy Nothing Day: The High Cost of a Bargain

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  This excerpt from The Price of a Bargain by Canadian journalist Gordon Laird is presented in honor of Buy Nothing Day. Happy anti shopping! For better and for worse, ours is the age of the bargaineers – the engineers of bargains – whose factories extend from rice paddies to suburban basements [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 5:01am EST
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• Tickling the Ivory . . . And Playing to a Deaf Audience: How Traditional MBA Programs Still Don’t Get It

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  By Martin Melaver Recently, I was invited to meet with the Dean of a prestigious MBA program. I didn’t haven’t the foggiest notion what he wanted from me. Still don’t for that matter. As I waited outside his office, I felt all of ten years old being called in to see [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:40am EST
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• Open Hands Farm: Another Farm Visit, Another Labor Lesson

  —Triple Pundit

  This is the fifth post in a series on the business of sustainable agriculture by the folks at Bon Appétit Management, a company that provides café and catering services to corporations, colleges and universities. To read past posts, click here. By Dayna Burtness Farms never cease to amaze me. Besides my grandparents’ [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:59am EST
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• D-Day for Climate: Engage Students with Senators Now

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  By Eban Goodstein, Director of The Bard Center for Environmental Policy Harry Reid made it clear last week. Sometime next spring, a decade of sweeping grassroots education and national activism will culminate in strong federal clean energy legislation, laying a policy foundation that will be vital for stabilizing the climate. Or it [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:45am EST
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• Sustainability Lessons Learned Hitchhiking the Real Estate Cosmos

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  By Martin Melaver Recently, I’ve been reading with my son The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. We’re at that point in the story when our travelers arrive on the planet of Magrathea. Magrathea, you may recall, made a name for itself millions of years ago by specializing in building designer planets [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:35am EST
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• Is There a Generational Failure on Climate Change? Not Yet.

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  By Eban Goodstein, Director of The Bard Center for Environmental Policy I have attended a lot of college climate change talks lately by 50+ year old white guy experts. They all feature a curious line directed at the students: “Our generation screwed up; we are sorry to leave you this mess, [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:55am EST
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• Greenbuild 2009 – The Three P’s in Action

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  By Amy Berry I recently returned from the United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC) 2009 Greenbuild Expo in Phoenix, Arizona. The conference boasted more than 28,000 attendees and more than 1800 exhibitors. Former Vice President Al Gore gave the keynote speech as leaders of the green building world converged to discuss [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:20am EST
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• Relationships: The Key Ingredient to a Green Data Center

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  By Mike Leber, president and founder of Hurricane Electric Green data centers have been getting more attention in the media in the last six months. Although much of that coverage has been on how green data centers are reducing carbon footprint, they also serve another importance purpose: reducing data [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:06am EST
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• The Impact of Storytelling on International Development

  —Triple Pundit

  By Mary Solecki The entrepreneurs of international development work will have a special place in history. These are entrepreneurial spirits that have risked their careers and livelihoods, not to make exorbitant profits or seek the thrill of the IPO, but instead to make life better for their fellow countrymen. These men [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:32am EST
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• Enabling Sustainable Datacenters with Tightly-Integrated, Advanced Component Technologies

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  By Dr. John Busch, president and co-founder of Schooner Information Technology According to the U.S. Department of Energy, for every 100 units of energy piped into a typical data center, only three are used for useful computing. These inefficiencies are the result of very low (~10 percent) utilization of the data [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 5:47am EST
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• Opening Up Fort Knox: Looking for Transparency to Foster Data Center Innovation

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  By David Zwerin, Sustainability Marketing Consultant While researching the sustainability of data centers, I became frustrated with the lack of corporate transparency around the environmental impacts associated with their data centers. Many companies talk about how efficient their data centers are, but stop short at providing hard facts, data, and relevant [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 5:30am EST
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• Enterprise Sustainability and Greening Data Centers

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  By Dr. Zen Kishimoto, Principal Analyst, Alta Terra Research Network Some years ago, energy was cheap. Few people in corporations paid attention to how much energy was consumed company wide, much less in data centers. More recently, however, several factors have changed this scene completely. These factors included much higher [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:52am EST
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• Data Centers as Information Factories

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  By Dave Ohara, Data Center Consultant and Publisher of GreenM3.com I have been writing on the Green Data Center topic for more than two years. After more than 1,000 blog posts, one of the things that I have found is the name “data center” doesn’t mean what most people who don’t [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:53am EST
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• Hotels: What’s Keeping You From Going Green?

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  By Jeff Slye, Chief Evolution Officer Business Evolution Consulting I have two questions I’d like to pose to the hospitality industry, particularly to the hotels, hotel management companies, and investors that do not have a sustainability or green platform for their property or properties: 1) What data or additional information do you [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 4:32am EST
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• Imagine H2O Prize Competition to Drive Water Innovation

  —Triple Pundit

  As 3p readers know, the growing scarcity of freshwater is causing significant social and environment problems around the world.  From a rise in cholera in parts of Africa to chronic water shortages in Australia as a result of drought, people everywhere are feeling the impact of the global water crisis.  [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:26pm EST
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• The Fourth Bottom Line of Sustainability: Perspective

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  By Steven Kenney Concern for the triple bottom line — it’s what pushes companies to shrink their environmental footprint and make restitution for past negative impacts.  And yet, as progressive as this ideal seems, its time has already passed.  It’s time to put a fourth P alongside people, planet, and profit: [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:59am EST
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• The Sustainability Commons: How Corporate Data Sharing Can Advance Sustainability

  —Triple Pundit

  By David Witzel, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Innovation Exchange Several people pointed me to Mary Tripsas‘ post in the New York Times called “Everybody in the Pool of Green Innovation” this weekend – it really struck a chord. The article focused on two initiatives involving major corporations to share patents that [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:27am EST
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• NYC Event Helps Women Climb the Green Ladder

  —Triple Pundit

  By A. Lauren Abele, Strategic Initiatives Manager New York Women Social Entrepreneurs The best kept secret in the world of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is that CSR is an inside job. Many people who are heading up CSR departments (or are the CSR department) at their companies, were once regular employees [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:56am EST
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• Environmenal Defense Fund: Reaching out to the Private Equity Industry

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  By Kirk Hourdajian, Project Manager, Corporate Partnerships Program, Environmental Defense Fund In a post I wrote on EDF’s Innovation Exchange blog last week, I identified some of the challenges and opportunities we are addressing in our work with private equity firms that are working to adopt sound environmental management strategies across [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:30am EST
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• Boots on the Ground: Gathering Data from Cow Pastures and Raspberry Fields

  —Triple Pundit

  This is the this is the fourth post in a series on the business of sustainable agriculture by the folks at Bon Appétit Management, a company that provides café and catering services to corporations, colleges and universities. To read past posts, click here. By Carolina Fojo Part I: Cow Poop Last week, while [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:06am EST
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• Organic Farming and the Future of Food

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  By Laura Klein Sustainable agriculture is the fastest-growing sector of the food industry. On the other hand, less than 1% of American cropland is farmed organically. In light of this conundrum, what keeps the organic farmer going? I spoke with Richard Wiswall, author of The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook: A Complete Guide [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 5:17am EDT
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• How an Organic Farming Apprenticeship Differs from the World of the Migrant Worker

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  This is the this is the third post in a series on the business of sustainable agriculture by the folks at Bon Appétit Management, a company that provides café and catering services to corporations, colleges and universities. To read the earlier posts, click here. By Dayna Burtness Since 2005, I’ve spent most [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 4:16am EDT
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• Best Practices of Actual Businesses Using Green Initiatives to Grow Revenues: What’s Their Secret?

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  By Bill Roth As the Green Business Coach for Entrepreneur.com the number one question I am asked is, “How do you make money going green?” Today’s business answer is that adopting sustainability practices is a high-results path for cutting costs. The “Green Team” is sustainability’s first killer app. And certifications [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 5:33am EDT
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• How To Overcome the Upfront Costs of Retrofitting

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  By Janine Kubert Cisco DeVries is a man on a mission. He wants to make green building retrofits as affordable and prevalent as iPhones. During his presentation Solving the Upfront Cost Barrier for Retrofits at West Coast Green this past Thursday, he pointed out, “How many of you would be willing [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 4:50am EDT
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• A Green Business Camp Encourages Collaboration Among Local Business Leaders

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  By Matthew Marichiba In case you hadn’t noticed, the Green Revolution is fully upon us. Congress is finally discussing limits on CO2 emissions. Clean Tech investments have been one of the few glimmers of hope in an otherwise dark economic climate. Even Exxon Mobil wants to make you believe they’re environmentally [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 4:05am EDT
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• The Challenge in Greening Your Rental Property

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  By Janine Kubert We’ve heard it all before: retrofitting our buildings to be more green can save us money, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and even create jobs. So why are so many property managers, even those who say they want to go green, resistant when it comes down to making the [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 5:42am EDT
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• How Newsweek’s Green Rankings Could Be More Effective

  —Triple Pundit

  By Julian Dautremont-Smith Last week, Newsweek released its first “Green Rankings,” which ranked the 500 largest U.S. companies on environmental performance. The rankings have been welcomed by many the sustainability community, and certainly, there is a lot to like about them.  They provide a reasonably objective tool to inform to inform purchasing and [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 5:44am EDT
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• How to Choose Your Sustainability Conferences

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  By David Witzel and Greg Andeck, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Innovation Exchange David Witzel serves as Director and Greg Andeck is the Manager, Corporate Partnerships of the EDF Innovation Exchange, a dynamic global network facilitating the widespread adoption of environmental innovation in business. The EDF Innovation Exchange is also a 3p [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 2:28pm EDT
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• Agricultural Labor in the U.S.: Why Do Workers Get a Bad Deal?

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  This is the this is the third post in a series on the business of sustainable agriculture by the folks at Bon Appétit Management, a company that provides café and catering services to corporations, colleges and universities. To read past posts, click here. By: Carolina Fojo, Bon Appétit Fellow People picking [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 4:47am EDT
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• Kansas City’s Green Impact Zone – A Vision for 21st Century Urban Renewal

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  By Andrea Buffa, The Apollo Alliance U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.) had a vision for how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) could benefit the urban core of Kansas City, Missouri, where he served as mayor from 1991 – 1999. The city would create a 150-block “Green Impact Zone,” [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 4:24am EDT
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• The Aesthetics of Trust: What It Takes to Break Through the Clutter

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  By Mitch Baranowski, co-founder of BBMG. This article originally appeared on Itshowwelive.com You would think, with some 400+ trustmarks vying for consumer attention, that most would dedicate a modicum of time and attention to the actual design of the trustmark. You know, so it stands out from the crowd. So [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2009, 6:21am EDT
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• Exhausted But Inspired: Gleanings From a Sustainability Director in the Trenches

  —Triple Pundit

  By Angela Nahikian, director of Global Environmental Sustainability at Steelcase The more fellow sustainability practitioners I’ve met, the more I have come to realize that while our industries vary, experiences are the same. Though we may progress at different rates, our organizations follow similar patterns of evolution and face many of [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 4:54am EDT
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• For Florida’s Tomato Pickers, 45 cents Means a Backache

  —Triple Pundit

  This is the this is the second post in a series on the business of sustainable agriculture by the folks at Bon Appétit Management, a company that provides café and catering services to corporations, colleges and universities. To read the first post, click here. By: Maisie Greenawalt, Bon Appetit Management What does [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 5:29am EDT
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• The Business of Organic Farming (Watch and Learn)

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  By: Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing Contrary to popular belief, a good living can be made on an organic farm. What’s required is farming smarter, not harder. Farmer Richard Wiswall is here to tell the world it’s possible to start an organic farm, enjoy it, and make a profit. Like [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 5:09am EDT
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• “Smart Choices” Food Label Recommends “Froot Loops”

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  By Carly Smolak As if our obsessive-compulsive nutrition culture was not frenetic enough with the deluge of conflicting reports and industry funded studies about diet, a new food labeling project called “Smart Choices” has recently unveiled its pseudo certification to help shoppers identify “smarter food and beverage choices.” “Smarter Choices” for consumers [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 5:50am EDT
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