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XGame Innovation in Carbon Capture

ByBizMan

Look at the great innovations up in Canada in the CCS xGames. Checkout the blog at SustainZine related to this very cool competition: http://sustainzine.blogspot.com/2017/01/co2-xgame-winners-in-canada-losers-in.htmlHere’s some info on this big competition in Canada: CBC News discusses competition sponsored by Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance and U.S. company NRG. Normally you think of Carbon Capture & Sequester as a dead cost. Take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere (maybe at a smoke stack where it is highly concentrated, and pump…

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Corps report on sustainability, kinda

BySustainMe

Good news corporations are reporting on sustainability-related issues, especially those risks associated with operating a business that does not account or consider the areas where they are not sustainable. Operations in the UnSustainable Zone have lots of risks such as, for example, the company may not really be profitable. Cheap coal, is not nearly so cheap when you figure in all the negative externalities: pollution, health, CO2, coal ash… Check out this WSJ article about…

A Call for Civility and Values-Based Leadership | Starbucks Newsroom

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A Call for Civility and Values-Based Leadership | Starbucks Newsroom: About March 20, there was a full-page add in the Wall Street Journal that had a heading of Howard Schultz calls for Civility and Value-Based Leadership and two column of words, 15 pairs. They were generally antonyms: Division  < ==>  Unity Cynicism  < ==>   Optimism Limits < ==>  Opportunity Isolation < ==>  Community Apathy < ==>  Passion Exclusion  < ==>  Inclusion Partisanship < ==>  Leadership Blame < ==>  Responsibility Status…

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The State of Green Business, 2016 | GreenBiz

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The State of Green Business, 2016 | GreenBiz: The latest report by GreenBiz (and Trucost) on the State of Green Business is great. Optimistic, but no green-colored glasses. There was a lot of progress in Paris (COP21) in December, but the progress from businesses is were major progress seems to be forming. It is great to see businesses taking more control and starting to shape sustainability arguments and the form the solutions. We at SustainZine…

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Don’t Confuse Sustainability with CSR | Ivey Business Journal

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Don’t Confuse Sustainability with CSR | Ivey Business Journal: Definition of sustainability — essentially not imposing additional costs on the future — is quite different from Corporate Social Responsibility, which looks at balancing the needs of all current constituents. This is a very cool article that addresses the key issues that differentiate sustainability from CSR. Even though sustainability is overused and frequently missuses, it is a better term to use and a better utopia to aim for. “It is time…

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Green, But Mostly White: The Lack Of Diversity In Enviro Movement, 5 parts – JustMeans

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Green, But Mostly White: The Lack Of Diversity In The Environmental Movement, Part 1 of 5—Future 500 | Justmeans: There are 5 parts to this series. It’s talking about who is evolved int the Environmental movement, and why there isn’t more diversity. And why that is starting to change? This is a very interesting 5 part series by several authors. Part 1: http://www.justmeans.com/blogs/green-but-mostly-white-the-lack-of-diversity-in-the-environmental-movement-part-1 by Danna Pfahl Part 2: http://www.justmeans.com/blogs/green-but-mostly-white-the-lack-of-diversity-in-the-environmental-movement-part-2-of-5-future by Marvin Smith Part 3: http://www.justmeans.com/blogs/green-but-mostly-white-the-lack-of-diversity-in-the-environmental-movement-part-3-of-5 by Shilpi Chhatray…