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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>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 (2)</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/02/15/six-levels-of-sustainability-what-you-be-is-what-you-get-2/</link>
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		<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>Social Networking Synergy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two very useful sites for connecting to people doing the groundwork in sustainability as NGO&#8217;s and NPO&#8217;s:
WiserEarth: http://www.wiserearth.org/
Currently they list the following:

109,119 Organizations
15,972 People
751 Groups
4,063 Resources
275 Events
457 Jobs

 
Idealist: http://www.idealist.org/
Among much more they have on offer:



Nonprofit Jobs (10,242)
Volunteer opportunities (13,702)
Organizations (78,635)
Idealist Groups (946)
Consultants (1,194)
Internships (2,317)
Programs (1,840)


People (151,611)
Volunteers (78,408)
Materials (7,415)
Speakers (4,590)
Events (780)
Campaigns (744)

 
There is no excuse to not connect and in connecting become actively involved in transforming the way we think [...]]]></description>
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