We’ll never return to previous levels of growth, argues Richard Heinberg in his new book, “The End of Growth”. Transition Voice has a good write-up of the book: For a while, popular peak oil observers … have linked energy to the economy, citing peak oil as the precursor to a major economic crisis. Now, Heinberg [...]

By Paul Hawken at GreenBiz.com Seventeen years ago he had a realization. At that time, Ray came home. He rediscovered a sacred earth with all its complexity, beauty and mystery, free from the constraints of this or that ideology, free from narrow-minded thinking, and he was freed to reimagine the relationship between humanity and nature [...]

By Ben Rooney, Tech Europe (Wall Street Journal), 1 June 2011 The biggest obstacle to European success in the digital economy is a lack of entrepreneurial culture, according to a panel of European investors and entrepreneurs. Speaking at an event in Berlin yesterday, the panel decried Europe’s lack of hunger, its antisuccess culture and called [...]

This column by Anand Giridharadas appeared in the Saturday-Sunday, July 16-17, 2011 edition of the International Herald Tribune under the title “Doing good by picking a few fights”. Every now and then, a new career path seizes the imagination of the global elite. Today it is social enterprise, in which earnest, problem-solving elites devote themselves [...]

With the goal of creating transformative change that lasts, The Weave tries to answer the question: what would the ideal engagement look like? It provides guidance for sustainability practitioners wishing to more deeply engage people in creating their sustainable future. The Weave integrates the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD), also known as The Natural [...]

Brussels, 30th May 2011 // Today young entrepreneurs and youth representatives in the field of youth employment met with MEPs to discuss how to make entrepreneurship a real option for young Europeans, especially within the European Commission’s Europe 2020 Strategy… For the European Youth Forum, the promotion of Youth Entrepreneurship offers another option for bridging [...]

By Umair Haque, Harvard Business Review (Blog), 20 May 2011 Here’s what I mean by opulence bubble: our conception of the good life, as I’ve discussed with you, has been centered on what I call hedonic opulence — having more, bigger, faster, cheaper, now. But we might be finding out, the hard way, that the [...]

This resonated: ” What Can You Do? Life beyond the Industrial Age is not only about our relationships with the earth, with one another, and with other species. It is also about our relationship with ourselves, what it means to be human. It’s not just about the kind of world we are trying to create, [...]

Since Februry 2010, The Blue Economy – Report to the Club of Rome 100 innovations – presents every week a sustainable business model. The case #50 has just been released: ‘Manufacturing without Molds‘ Have you ever realized how many objects of everyday use, made of plastics or metal, have been manufactured in molds? One single [...]

Corporate Careers guide now open to all There are 23 personal stories in Net Impact’s latest career resource: 23 different career paths, 23 different job titles, 23 different profiles of professionals who successfully bring corporate citizenship to their companies on a regular basis. And now all of them are available for you to download, regardless [...]