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  Walmart's Unsustainable Business Practices Lead to Class Action Lawsuit

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  Sustainable Development: Just over a week ago, Walmart asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a ruling from the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, that would

  • September 07 • 2

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  Wars: Is a War over Water Brewing?

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  Sustainable Development: Water Wars may be Coming Soon!Since fossil fuels like oil, coal, and natural gas are all exhaustible resources, there will definitely be less of thos

  

  Patrick Kenney • September 05 • 0

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  Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

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  Sustainable Development: Fuel cells have been well known for a long time, but until now, they have not been nearly as popular as science fiction writers always hoped. One rea

  

  Robert Moskowitz • September 03 • 0

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  The Walmart Sustainability Index

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  Sustainable Development: "We save people money so they can live better." This slogan dominates the front page of Walmarts Global Sustainability Report 2010 Progress Update.

  • August 28 • 1

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  Miss America Goes Green-ish

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  Sustainable Development: The Press Release headlines read: "Miss America Organization Partners with EarthEra(R) To Green 2010 Pageant." The plan was to reduce the carbon foot

  • August 25 • 0

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  Flooding in Pakistan Halts Progress Towards Meeting MDGs

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  Sustainable Development: Sustainable development in Pakistan and progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is likely to be severely delayed due to th

  

  Anna Dubuis • August 10 • 0

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  XPrize Offers New Oil Spill Contest Details

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  Social Enterprise: In June, we broke the news here that the XPrize Foundation would soon be announcing a new contest to encourage innovation in oil spill clean-up techn

  

  Marcia Stepanek • August 09 • 2

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  Oregon Sustainability Center contains important lessons for social enterprises

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  Social Enterprise: Public-private collaborations can facilitate or hinder the growth of social enterprises on a regional level. Such collaborations inevitably spark pub

  

  Andrew Wilkes • August 05 • 0

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  Obama's Business Innovation Hubs: Down, But Not Out

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  Social Enterprise: The Obama Administration's promise to launch innovation hubs to catalyze business innovation in economically hard-hit areas of the country has been c

  

  Marcia Stepanek • August 01 • 6

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  Social Media: Too Much Transparency, or Not Enough?

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  Social Enterprise: Worried that there might be too much information about you online? Microsoft researcher and social media expert danah boyd says it's better to worry

  

  Marcia Stepanek • July 31 • 1

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  VCs: Dead or Alive?

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  Social Enterprise: Should we start putting venture capitalists on the endangered species list? Judging by some of the talk on conference panels held this week at Stanfo

  

  Marcia Stepanek • July 31 • 5

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  Tap'd NY Taps Into Environmental Conservation

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  Sustainable Development: The negative ecological effects of bottled water are well documented. From draining aquifers, to propping up military juntas (greetings, Fiji water),

  

  Kendra Pierre-Louis • July 31 • 0

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  Howdy from your Sustainable Development blogger in Santa Monica

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  Sustainable Development: Sustainable Development. What does it mean? Why do we care? Although I have some answers, I expect to develop a great many new questions and even mor

  

  Robert Moskowitz • July 30 • 2

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  Six New Rules for Social Enterprise Start-ups

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  Social Enterprise: Start-up CEOs featured at this week's Stanford Summit in Silicon Valley say it's cheaper than ever to launch a social enterprise. Here are their Top

  

  Marcia Stepanek • July 29 • 2

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  Social Media: 8 New Ways to Make Waves

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  Social Enterprise: As the "do-good" conference season sputters and slows in the mid-summer heat, here are eight new social media tips and takeaways from the recent Nati

  

  Marcia Stepanek • July 24 • 0

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  New Survey: Fewer Social Entrepreneurs Come From Nonprofit Sector

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  Social Enterprise: A survey of social entrepreneurs by Echoing Green, the New York-based social enterprise investment nonprofit, suggests that there are four emerging t

  

  Marcia Stepanek • July 24 • 2

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  First Social Innovation Fund Grants Announced

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  Social Enterprise: The national Social Innovation Fund announced its first list of grantmaking partners today, a group of 11 nonprofit organizations and social enterpri

  

  Marcia Stepanek • July 22 • 1

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  Social Enterprise Model Nabs Another Win

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  Social Enterprise: The popularity of social enterprises -- businesses with a social mission -- is growing. But are they legal? The drive to make them so inched another

  

  Marcia Stepanek • July 10 • 12

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  Water Scarcity? There's a Game for That, Too

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  Social Enterprise: Over the last couple of years, there has been a surge in the number of video game developers who would rather design for social problem-solving than

  

  Marcia Stepanek • July 05 • 4

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  Sustainable Development in a Yabba Dabba Do World

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  Sustainable Development: At dinner recently a friend posited that what separates major cities like New York from suburban landscapes is that New York is still home to a panor

  

  Kendra Pierre-Louis • June 30 • 0

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