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  • Survey on Key Challenges and Industry Performance

    Results from The Sustainability Survey

    19 Sep 2011 – Report

    What are the most urgent challenges facing society today? And which of 17 industry sectors are doing the most effective job of managing the most urgent challenges?

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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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  • Ocean Assault

    An Interview with Caroline Chisholm of Earthwatch

    09 Sep 2010 – Conversation

    One way to raise awareness of the effects of climate change and pollution on the world’s oceans is to dive right in and find out for yourself.

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  • Issue Brief: Valuing Nature

    The Economics of Ecosystem Services

    13 May 2010 – Article

    Can placing a price on ecosystem services help prevent further degradation and depletion of the natural resources society depends on?

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  • Get Used to Virtual Burgers (Director)

    30 Oct 2008 – Article

    Water shortage is no longer a virtual problem.

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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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  • General Electric Reimagines Its Future (Nikkei Ecology)

    General Electric supports environmental efforts with its leading-edge technology under its “ecomagination” initiative

    09 Jun 2007 – Article

    How GE's ecomagination initiative signals the growing shift from corporate citizenship strategies to innovation-led entrepreneurial strategies in some of the world’s most successful companies.

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  • Rise of the Germinator (Director)

    13 Apr 2007 – Article

    Media coverage of sustainability is sparking a new set of opportunities for environmentally conscious businesses. The message is "go green, get rich".

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  • How Business Can Change the World

    14 Jun 2006 – Article

    Geoff Lye writes on the powerful economic and moral case for businesses to take an active part in working towards the UN Millennium Development Goals.

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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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