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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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  • 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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  • Urbanization and Megacities in Emerging Economies

    Findings from The Sustainability Survey

    10 Feb 2011 – Report

    GlobeScan and SustainAbility surveyed sustainability experts and practitioners to explore how the rise in urbanization and the growth of megacities, particularly in emerging economies, will impact 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 Biodiversity Challenge Revisited

    A Review of the Latest Research and Implications for Business

    27 Oct 2010 – Webinar

    Some businesses are gradually awakening to growing risks and new opportunities as the protection of species and genetic diversity prove more and more critical to global supply chains. Yet too many still assume that government alone has the answers.

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  • The Biodiversity Challenge for Business

    2010 is International Year on Biodiversity, but what might it mean for business?

    01 Nov 2009 – Article

    John Elkington and Jennifer Biringer suggest that biodiversity may soon force its way higher on the corporate sustainability agenda.

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  • Issue Brief: India

    Ancient civilisation, largest democracy

    24 Feb 2006 – Article

    Whether companies consider India a source of well trained but affordable labour or look upon it as a market, one thing is clear – no company can afford to ignore it.

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  • Radar: The Social Enterprise Issue

    Pursuing Passion As Well As Profit

    05 Aug 2005 – Radar Archive

    Whether from impassioned individuals, small grassroots organisations or innovative projects within large companies, social enterprise involves a diverse mix of people, approaches and impacts. How can we combine the very best aspects of each?

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  • Issue Brief: Human Rights

    What role for business?

    23 Jun 2004 – Article

    Business has been in the spotlight for its human rights record for many years. The scale and significance of business impact on this agenda, and questions about how it should be managed or regulated and by whom, are increasingly coming to the fore.

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  • Issue Brief: Water

    Every drop counts

    20 Apr 2004 – Article

    Water has become a defining sustainable development issue uniting a range of NGOs and activists - and cutting across interests from the environment to human rights, women’s rights and anti-globalization.

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  • Radar: The Commodities Issue

    The Taste for Commodities: Who Benefits?

    01 Apr 2004 – Radar Archive

    Commodities are the economic lifeblood of many developing countries. What is more, commodity production is often the source of profound and pervasive environmental impacts. In this issue of Radar, we ask, can there be sustainable commodities?

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  • Corporate Community Investment in Japan

    01 Jan 2003 – Report

    For Japanese companies, or western companies doing business in Japan, who want to learn how they can contribute to a better society in the communities where they operate.

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