18 hours ago ... This is the third in a series of stories about Walmart's supplier sustainability index. An overview is here, and a story about flour, bread and ...
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Last month, I wrote three blogposts adding up to more than 2,000 words about Walmart’s supplier sustainability index. I did so because I think it’s a big deal, but skeptics remain . Some people simply can’t accept the fact that Walmart can do anything that’s good for its people or the...
General Motors’ Dan Akerson at Brainstorm Green Dan Akerson, the chief of executive of General Motors, loves the Chevy Volt. Bea Perez of Coca-Cola is backing inventor Dean Kamen, who wants to take a water-purification machine to the global south. David Crane, the chief executive of N...
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 companies and nonprofits, big and small; plenty of entertaining and informative convers...
Life, it is often said , is a journey, not a destination. Boris Mordkovich’s journey has taken him from his birthplace in Lithuania to Brooklyn, back to the former Soviet Union with nonprofit Kiva , from Capetown to London (in an 1980 Land Rover ) and, most recently, from New York to ...
The value of nature is astonishing , when you stop and think about it. Marshes protect coastlands. Urban trees clean the air. Forests provide timber. Oceans give us seafood. Snow-capped mountains store drinking water. Some might say nature is priceless. Not Mark Tercek, the former inv...
Imagine a bar and restaurant that, like Newman’s Own , gives all of its profits to charity. Beer and benevolence, it’s been called. Drafts and donations. More fun, in any case, than salad dressing. That’s the idea behind Cause , a philanthropub (“a bar where having a good time helps a...
“The time has come to tear down the old order and begin to create the new.” John Elkington sounds like a Wall Street occupier, or a Bolshevik. He is neither. He is, instead, a 63-year-old consultant who has advised executives of global corporations, including Ford, Shell, BP, Toyota, ...
First, some context. As Ben-Gurion saw more than half a century ago, Israel is short on natural resources–water, land, oil–and thus needs to use what it has efficiently. This is the biggest, but not the only, explanation for the growth of Israeli clean tech. Most everyone serves in th...
