People Planet Profit: The Triple Bottom Line trifecta
I was listening to a Stanford Center for Social Innovation podcast yesterday and William McDonough, who was the speaker, mentioned the phrase "Triple Top Line". I’ve heard of triple bottom line, the notion [...]
Archive for the 'Green' Category
Design for the Triple Top Line
16Dec06Climate Change, continued
05Jul06Climate expert Dr. Mark Trexler gives us the straight scoop on climate change.
He says we have to look into the “sciensocioeconomic” issues before forming policy that is potentially disastrous to some industries.
But of course! In my book, “disaster” to some industries, while problematic in the near term, is necessary for sustainable [...]
When I was evangelizing “An Inconvenient Truth” to colleagues at work, some people were genuinely interested and made a commitment to go watch the movie. Others found research and articles to contradict Al Gore’s reasoning, and thus, discount his entire documentary. Some presented back to me research explaining why global warming was [...]
Bottled water is a conspiracy
18Jun06I was appalled when I read this article in UTNE about bottled water in the United States.
From “Inside the Bottle”, a website dedicated towards unearthing the truths about the bottled water industry, we learn that “When one of the Big 4 (Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Nestle and Danone) establishes a plant in communities they take not only [...]
A Tribe Wanted
25Apr06Tribe Wanted is a concept in which a few guys and some social/environmental groups came together to create an adventure island on Fiji. If you buy a membership (available in 1, 2 or 3 year blocks), you have access to the island for a certain amount of time a year (7 days). [...]
Out with it already
24Apr06I’ve been waiting for someone to make digital ink viable since freshman year of college (believe it or not, not only for Green reasons.. its great having a copy that you can mark up electronically and archive into OneNote or email to someone). I hate subscribing to print magazines like Business2, Entrepreneur, Inc, and [...]
Happy Earth Day!
22Apr06Yesterday was the long drive. And I feel tremendously guilty, we spent >$100 on 30some gallons of gas.. But I guess easily justified by the fact that you don’t really need a car in Chicago.
Right now I’m in Vinita’s apartment. I thought it’d be completely tiny, but its not [...]
Beyond Grey Pinstripes
17Apr06For those who don’t already know about Beyond Grey Pinstripes, it is a survey that is put out once every two years that ranks business schools in terms of their social and environmental stewardship.
Notable is Stanford’s perch at #1 (Also ranked #1 in B-schools overall). Of the other schools on [...]
7th Generation essay
14Apr06Well its late. And this is, quite frankly, a cop out so I don’t have to owe someone a chipotle.
This is the essay I turned in for the NetImpact 7th Generation essay contest. Check it out when you have a spare minute.
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p.s. Though backdating is not allowed, I can modify posts [...]
I just joined NetImpact so I could enter 7th Generation’s essay contest. Well, not so I could enter the essay contest.. It seems like a pretty neat group to be involved in… but I’m a little leery to start with.. I hope its not like the KC Entrepreneur meetup that (during my [...]
A cool site developed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, called “Design Advisor”, is available here. They have a new section on their site that says “Green Building is here“. On the list provided above, there is a collection of Green building projects currently being undertaken.
It’ll [...]
EarthWalk @ EarthFest, KC
This year, I’m part of the EarthFest volunteer committee for Bridging the Gap’s Earthwalk at Shawnee Mission Park. We’re trying to get local businesses to sponsor the event, and in turn educate consumers about sustainable practices.
If you know of any businesses that might be interested, please forward [...]
Well, the tables are finally starting to turn it seems. All those people who used to get obnoxiously large gas guzzling SUVs are downgrading– TreeHugger recently posted that Corollas and Civics are flying off the lots at dizzying rates compared to SUVs, whereas the new SUVs are going untouched though manufacturers and dealers are [...]
