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		<title>The Abundance Dynamic</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2010/03/28/the-abundance-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a shift in progress.
For hundreds of years we have been living, working, consuming and discarding without much concern for the consequences of our actions. The dominant paradigm has been one of individual, corporate and national profit making and taking. The costs of these pursuits has been consistently and conveniently “externalized”, meaning, simply, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainability: Just Be It</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2010/03/06/sustainability-just-be-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[leadership development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Through our work facilitating leadership development and helping those leaders develop their organizations in sustainable directions we have realized that it is not enough to just learn a new set of tricks, skills or competencies.
In our work with individuals, teams and organizations, the best results emerge when we engender and embed holistic development and change. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consuming Thoughts: U</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/12/21/consuming-thoughts-u/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[capacity evolution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bono]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caddis fly larvae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mazlow's hierarchy of needs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[municipal waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[samsara]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[U is for use and what we give back. Bono: And you give, and you give, and you give yourself away. 40% of all food produced in the US ends up in the trash. 32% of all municipal waste in the US is packaging. The percentage is nearly 50% in Japan. We consume for many reasons and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consuming Thoughts: T</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/12/07/consuming-thoughts-t/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alignment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cable TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fireflies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthy relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high-performing teams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ignite Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Gabriel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PS3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raven Zachary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smart phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[T is for Trust That We Now Sorely Lack. Peter Gabriel: You can blow out a candle but you can&#8217;t blow out a fire. Alone, and many of us feel more alone than we care to admit, no matter how brightly we burn we are still a single flame, an isolated candle. I love Ignite Portland, [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[C+C News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[best practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coherence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eric Clapton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse gas emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NGO's]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[waste reduction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=251</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=244</guid>
		<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>Moving the Needle: From Less Bad to Abundance</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/07/26/moving-the-needle-from-less-bad-to-abundance/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/07/26/moving-the-needle-from-less-bad-to-abundance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[capacity evolution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cradle to cradle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janine Benyus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life creates the conditions conducive to life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Will McDonough]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you&#8217;re looking at a gauge. The left half of the gauge has black hash marks with numbers that go from &#8220;-10&#8243; to &#8220;0&#8243; at the top. The background color on this half is red. The right half of the gauge has numbers that start from &#8220;0&#8243; at the top of the gauge and go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking the Value of Business</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/07/20/rethinking-the-value-of-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[capacity evolution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asset valuation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cash flow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[complex open systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Hammer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relational capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ROI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TBLI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[triple bottom line]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I talk with prospective members of Abound about their businesses, the business of sustainability and the challenges of being a leader in sustainable business, one of the recurring themes we encounter is that of value.
This theme of value was echoed at the Triple Bottom Line Investment (TBLI) conference I attended in Tokyo. A number [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[CEO]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=229</guid>
		<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>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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Circles]]></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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