Taiga Company blog by Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Company
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CNN Money recently published an article, 4 Keys to Growth through Transformational Innovation, which discusses an aligned perspective on sustainable business development. Seeking to overcome today’s business challenges, and in some cases derailleurs, the author points to ‘break-through’ innovation as a key business sustainability differentiator.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., November 28, 2012 /3BL Media/ - At a time when publicly traded, privately held and mission-driven organizations in ever greater numbers are incorporating social responsibility and shared value into their overall strategies, executives of all stripes are keenly aware of the need to identify market opportunities that produce sustainable financial while driving positive social and environmental outcomes through scalable innovations.
Cisco uses its expertise, its technologies, and its partnerships to transform lives, communities, and the planet we live on. By combining these human and technology networks, Cisco multiplies its impact and accomplishes extraordinary things, even under the most difficult circumstances.
General Motors is paving the way to a greener future by engineering vehicles that utilize renewable energy sources and reduce the impact on the environment.
At last week’s GM Electrification Experience in San Francisco, General Motors kicked that commitment into overdrive by announcing plans to put up to 500,000 vehicles on the road with some form of electrification by 2017 with a focus on plug-in technology.
A new report from the International Energy Agency released on Tuesday estimates that the U.S. will become a net energy exporter by 2030 and that natural gas will overtake oil to become the most abundant fuel in the American energy mix. GE is developing technologies that are already helping customers to take advantage of the gas boom.
Automaker highlights key initiatives in interim update to report
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DETROIT, November 14, 2012 /3BL Media/ – General Motors released an interim update to its inaugural sustainability report, including updates and analysis, along with regional metrics for environmental commitments, product quality, material issues and disclosure.