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2012′s green business heroes
Bill McKibben does the math Some say, and with reason, that 2012 was the best year ever. Never in the history of the world has there been less hunger, less disease and more prosperity. Of course...
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A puzzling list of sustainable companies
Canada’s oil sands: Sustainable? Here comes a new list of the “most sustainable corporations in the world,” and it’s a doozy. Two of the top five companies on the 2013 Global 100 list are oil and gas...
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Are corporations people? I’ll leave that for legal scholars to decide. Are corporations funny? Uh, almost never. Today’s evidence comes in a breathtakingly dumb digital ad campaign from Clorox Green...
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Oxfam America: Big Food is failing the poor
New research by Oxfam America into the social and environmental policies of the world’s 10 biggest food and beverage companies puts Nestle, Unilever and Coca-Cola at the top of the list and Associated...
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Sustainability by anecdote
I write stories. I read stories. I love a good story. “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world,” says the British novelist Philip Pullman. The...
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Fortune Brainstorm Green, and the limits of corporate sustainability
Harrison Ford at Fortune Brainstorm Green The 2013 edition of Fortune’s Brainstorm Green conference was, by most accounts, a hit. We had a record number of attendees, including more than 50 CEOs of...
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Unilever’s Paul Polman: Pushing the boundaries of sustainability
More than any other big-company CEO, Paul Polman is serious about sustainability. Polman is serious about pretty much everything, actually. He’s serious about a vast array of problems facing the world,...
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My beef with B Corps
There’s lot to like about the fast-growing B Corps movement, and one thing to dislike, as I explain in my latest column for Guardian Sustainable Business US. If you’re reading this blog, you are...
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Paul Polman: A radical CEO
“We’re the world’s biggest NGO,” Paul Polman, the chief executive of Unilever, sometimes likes to joke. Literally, he is correct: “We’re a non government organization. The only difference is, we’re...
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The elusive fortune at the base of the pyramid
It’s been an exceptionally busy week, beginning with the 2014 edition of Fortune Brainstorm Green (selected videos are online here) and ending with a holiday weekend visit from my new grandson, so I’m...
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