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Environment

Virtue or Else

Under the EPA’s Audit Policy, violators who voluntarily report themselves can get certain penalties reduced or waived if they commit to ongoing self-regulation.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Summer 2011
 

Nonprofit Management

Making the News

The media introduce social movements to the masses, but how do social movements make it into the media?

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Summer 2011
 
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Energy

Picking Green Tech’s Winners and Losers

Unless clean tech follows well-established rules of innovation and commercialization, the industry’s promise to provide sustainable sources of energy will fail.

By Clayton M. Christensen, Shuman Talukdar, Richard Alton, & Michael B. Horn | 7 | Spring 2011
 
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Socially Responsible Business

Beyond the Purple Berry

Sambazon’s commitment to social entrepreneurship creates a fair market for farmers in the Amazon

By Ryan Black & Jeremy Black | Spring 2011
 
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Environment

Manish Bapna

Manish Bapna, managing director of World Resources Institute, is helping China manage its environmental problems.

By Eric Nee | Winter 2011
 
CLIMATOPOLIS:
How Our Cities
Will Thrive in the
Hotter Future
Matthew E. Kahn

Environment

Climate Speculations

CLIMATOPOLIS: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future by Matthew E. Kahn

Reviewed By James L. Sweeney | Winter 2011
 

Environment

Bring Polluters Back In

Research reveals why low-income minority neighborhoods are often the site of the worst environmental polluters.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Winter 2011
 
THE COMING
FAMINE: The Global
Food Crisis and What
We Can Do to Avoid It
Julian Cribb

Food

Food Solutions

The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It by Julian Cribb

Reviewed By Janine Yorio | Winter 2011
 
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Energy

This Old Green House

Clean Energy Works Portland gets consumers—and the workforce—energized about weatherization.

By Suzie Boss | 1 | Fall 2010
 
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Socially Responsible Business

A Bigger Pie

Mission Pie, a for-profit bakery and café, supports local farmers while training at-risk kids.

By Sam Scott | Summer 2010