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  • Citystates

    How cities are vital to the future of sustainability

    13 Mar 2012 – Report

    As models of characteristics such as connectivity, adaptability and decisiveness cities offer a compelling frame through which to understand and drive sustainability.

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  • Appetite for Change

    Reinventing the Global Food System

    23 Jun 2011 – Report

    Today's global food system is inherently unsustainable, and must be completely transformed. Appetite for Change was conceived to identify what change is needed, and the role the corporate sector must play in making it happen.

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  • Survey on Sustainability Leadership

    Findings from The Sustainability Survey

    11 Apr 2011 – Report

    GlobeScan and SustainAbility asked sustainability experts which sectors of society, which companies, and which visionary individuals are most effectively advancing the sustainability agenda.

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  • The Car Next Door: The Rise of Peer-to-Peer Social Innovation

    A conversation with WhipCar founder Vinay Gupta

    07 Apr 2011 – Conversation

    SustainAbility's Kyra Choucroun chats with Vinay Gupta, founder of WhipCar, about the opportunity to exploit 'idle assets', like your neighbor's car.

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  • Global Economic Recovery and Sustainability

    Findings from The Sustainability Survey

    07 Mar 2011 – Audio/Video

    In collaboration with GlobeScan we surveyed sustainability professionals and interviewed members of the SustainAbility Council to explore the following question: what does a global economic recovery mean for the corporate sustainability agenda?

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  • The Business of Collaborative Consumption

    A conversation with Rachel Botsman

    10 Feb 2011 – Conversation

    SustainAbility's Kyra Choucroun gets the download from Rachel Botsman about a powerful force that is re-inventing not just what we consume, but how we consume it.

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  • The Leading Edge of Sustainability

    New Spheres, New Mindsets, New Models

    11 Jan 2011 – Article

    We kicked off our 2010 Engaging Stakeholders members workshops with a discussion on sustainability leadership. Here are highlights of the themes that emerged.

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  • Issue Brief: Climate Change and Global Health

    The Role for Business

    11 Jan 2011 – Article

    An overview of the health-related challenges posed by climate change, with a number of inspiring examples of how the private sector can contribute products, services and expertise to help tackle these challenges.

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  • Sustainable Brands 2010: “The Power of AND”

    Recap and reflections after SustainAbility's fourth year at Sustainable Brands

    21 Sep 2010 – Article

    Patrin Watanatada sums up the SB10 with the observation that the sustainability efforts most likely to succeed are those that are both robust and data-driven on the one hand, and joyful, surprising, delightful and principles-driven on the other.

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  • Where Next with Social Media? (Época Negócios)

    04 Jul 2009 – Article

    John Elkington and Alex Hammer explore the implications and likely future of social media in driving new forms of corporate innovation and engagement on sustainability.

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  • It’s Time to Google the Future of the Car Industry (Nikkei Ecology)

    12 Mar 2009 – Article

    Sadly, over time, key parts of the European and American car industries have often displayed thinking and behaviours that speak of denial of any need to adapt and evolve.

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  • Pharma Futures 3

    Emerging Opportunities

    23 Feb 2009 – Report

    Emerging markets are now significant players in global trade. Yet they are also very different than mature markets and more complex to manage. For the pharmaceutical industry in particular, they have often presented both challenges and opportunities.

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  • Enter the Social Entrepreneur (Época Negócios)

    25 Sep 2008 – Article

    Enter the social entrepreneur, who we believe will increasingly be seen as a leading indicator of corporate innovation, resilience and, ultimately, longer-term sustainability.

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  • Unchaining Value

    Innovative approaches to sustainable supply

    01 Aug 2008 – Report

    Unchaining Value argues that companies should redefine the goals of supply chain management from creating more value at less cost for the company, to creating more value for all supply chain participants at a lower cost to finite global resources.

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  • Moving Beyond Philanthropy (China Dialogue)

    31 Jul 2008 – Article

    Chinese entrepreneurs contributed millions of dollars to earthquake relief efforts, a welcome upsurge in charitable giving. But for John Elkington and Jodie Thorpe, it is more important that businesses integrate social responsibility into their core

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