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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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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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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>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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 09:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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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>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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		<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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		<title>Six Levels of Sustainability: What You Be is What You Get (6)</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/03/07/six-levels-of-sustainability-what-you-be-is-what-you-get-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sustainability&#8221; is not always sustainable. Simply, doing and describing what you do as sustainable does not make it so. For organizations (and us, personally!) to be sustainable in what we do, we have to be sustainable in who we are and how we see the world. This gives us our best shot at doing something that is actually going to get or generate sustainable results. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Levels of Sustainability: What You Be is What You Get (5)</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/03/05/six-levels-of-sustainability-what-you-be-is-what-you-get-5/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/03/05/six-levels-of-sustainability-what-you-be-is-what-you-get-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#8220;Sustainability&#8221; is not always sustainable. Simply, doing and describing what you do as sustainable does not make it so. For organizations (and us, personally!) to be sustainable in what we do, we have to be sustainable in who we are and how we see the world. This gives us our best shot at doing something that is actually going to get or generate sustainable results.  In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Levels of Sustainability: What You Be is What You Get (4)</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/03/01/six-levels-of-sustainability-what-you-be-is-what-you-get4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sustainability&#8221; is not always sustainable. Simply, doing and describing what you do as sustainable does not make it so. For organizations (and us, personally!) to be sustainable in what we do, we have to be sustainable in who we are and how we see the world. This gives us our best shot at doing something that is actually going to get or generate sustainable results. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Levels of Sustainability: What You Be is What You Get (3)</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/02/22/six-levels-of-sustainability-what-you-be-is-what-you-get-3/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/02/22/six-levels-of-sustainability-what-you-be-is-what-you-get-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sustainability&#8221; is not always sustainable. Simply, doing and describing what you do as sustainable does not make it so. For organizations (and us, personally!) to be sustainable in what we do, we have to be sustainable in who we are and how we see the world. This gives us our best shot at doing something that is actually going to get or generate sustainable results. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Levels of Sustainability: What you Be is What you Get (2)</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/02/15/six-levels-of-sustainability-what-you-be-is-what-you-get-2/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/02/15/six-levels-of-sustainability-what-you-be-is-what-you-get-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#8220;Sustainability&#8221; is not always sustainable. Simply, doing and describing what you do as sustainable does not make it so. For organizations (and us, personally!) to be sustainable in what we do, we have to be sustainable in who we are and how we see the world. This gives us our best shot at doing something that is actually going to get or generate sustainable results.In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six levels of Sustainability: What You Be is What You Get (1)</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/02/12/six-levels-of-sustainability-what-you-be-is-what-you-get-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sustainability&#8221; is not always sustainable. Simply, doing and describing what you do as sustainable does not make it so. For organizations (and us, personally!) to be sustainable in what we do, we have to be sustainable in who we are and how we see the world. This gives us our best shot at doing something [...]]]></description>
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