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		<title>Special Announcement: The Green Marketplace Forum</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/09/19/special-announcement-the-green-marketplace-forum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hiroshi Nakada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiyotaka Fujii]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you in Japan or going to Japan at the end of September we are co-sponsoring this landmark event:
The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan Presents:
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GREEN MARKETPLACE FORUM: THE FUTURE OF WORK, HOME, &#38; HOW WE GET AROUND
Wednesday, September 30th, 9:00-18:30
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER LIST INCLUDES:

 Mayor Hiroshi Nakada of Yokohama
 Paul Sands, General Manager [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, How Sustainable is the Wal-Mart Sustainability Index?</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/08/17/so-how-sustainable-is-the-wal-mart-sustainability-index/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[capacity evolution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[best practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coherence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collaboration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Clapton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse gas emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NGO's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability Index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability Value Networks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[waste reduction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To quote Eric Clapton: &#8220;It&#8217;s in the way that you use it.&#8221;
The Wal-Mart sustainability index is measuring whether suppliers are measuring their impact on energy usage, greenhouse gas emissions, waste, resource depletion and the communities in which they operate. Essentially it&#8217;s binary with annotation. Are you or aren&#8217;t you? If you are, please describe what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wal-Mart Sustainability Index: An Overview</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/08/10/the-wal-mart-sustainability-index-an-overview/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/08/10/the-wal-mart-sustainability-index-an-overview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[GHG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse gases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Material Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Packaging Scorecard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability Index]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retail giant, Wal-Mart, debuted their Sustainability Index in July. You can download Version 1.0 of the Index here. The latest list of questions on the survey is here.
The survey is divided into four categories: Energy and Climate, Material Efficiency, Natural Resources, People and Community. In essence, it will function as an baseline measurement tool that sorts suppliers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do CEO&#8217;s, Government, the General Public and Girls&#8217; Softball Have in Common?</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/05/26/what-do-ceos-government-the-general-public-and-girls-softball-have-in-common/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/05/26/what-do-ceos-government-the-general-public-and-girls-softball-have-in-common/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 13:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this article at the Wall Street Journal. I&#8217;ve been hearing this a lot lately. Company heads are waiting for governments to give them clear signals on where they should be placing their R&#38;D, development and marketing bets. In essence, they&#8217;re asking for regulators and policy makers to tell them the future. It&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economy + Ecology</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/05/17/economy-ecology/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/05/17/economy-ecology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 10:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[C+C News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[eco-centric]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t been there already, I recommend checking out The Inspired Economist.
They do a great job of sourcing stories that have that special eco-centric mix. They matter both ecologically and economically.
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		<title>Nike, Creative Commons and Best Buy Building Collaboration</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/05/07/nike-creative-commons-and-best-buy-building-collaboration/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/05/07/nike-creative-commons-and-best-buy-building-collaboration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 09:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Creative Commons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green XChange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting post at Worldchanging details an approach by these companies to open up their sustainability innovation using Green XChange:
Combining technology and the Creative Commons licensing structure, Green Xchange provides a platform where companies are able to issue licenses to other companies, allowing them to access patented research. The patent owners determine the terms for use, creating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainability Leadership Abounds</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/04/29/sustainability-leadership-abounds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[C+C News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capacity evolution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Circles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland Oregon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce the launch of our global sustainability leadership organization: Abound.
 
Commitment      Connection     Opportunity

Who We Are
We are leaders in businesses, non-profit organizations and institutions with a mission for sustainability who want to accelerate the pace of change. We believe it is time to re-imagine, re-design, re-organize and re-align to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>P&amp;G, Microsoft &amp; Sustainability</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/03/29/pg-microsoft-sustainability/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/03/29/pg-microsoft-sustainability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A. J. Lafley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon dioxide emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[core value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P&G]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safe drinking water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Balmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable products]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[P&#38;G and Microsoft have both recently strongly committed themselves to &#8220;sustainability.&#8221; P&#38;G&#8217;s Lafley saying:
P&#38;G’s commitment to sustainability is strategic. It is how our company conducts business. [Specifically]






Develop and market at least $50 billion in innovative and sustainable products, up from a goal of $20 billion.
Reduce carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, water usage and disposed waste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Discipline of Leadership</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/03/22/the-discipline-of-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article in Business Week on measuring body language:
Using high-tech badges that transmit data on an individual&#8217;s gestures, eye movements, voice levels, and even proximity to other people, MIT is parsing the physical traits of leadership. Along with highlighting effective managers, researchers hope the data will help train workers to be more effective at everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond CSR: Being Sustainable</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/03/11/beyond-csr-being-sustainable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[McKinsey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is growing evidence that CSR as commonly practiced is not an effective use of corporate resources.
In a recent McKinsey poll of 391 CEO&#8217;s whose companies participate in the UN Global Compact, the CEO&#8217;s listed &#8220;competing strategic priorities&#8221; as the most significant barrier to implementing an integrated strategic approach to CSR. This was followed by:

complexity [...]]]></description>
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