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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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		<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: H</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/09/28/consuming-thoughts-h/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Basho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Gilmour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[H is for Health That Should Never Be Poor. Basho: Old pond / frog jumps in / the sound of water. In the US we are currently wrapped up in a very important, often ridiculous debate about healthcare or, more accurately, health insurance. Having just repatriated and wandered the maze of healthcare choices&#8221;, as a [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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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>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=234</guid>
		<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>Long Time No Post-Reflections on Coming Home</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/07/13/long-time-no-post-reflections-on-coming-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[aikido]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Leonard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mastery]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Time. We are very time sensitive these days. Blogs need updating. Twitter demands tweets. Our Facebook and other social networking clans compel us to post, respond, upload. We are deeply and diversely connected.
Last night, talking with friends, we talked about relationships, disciplines and discipline. We talked about exciting, inspiring vertical spikes and the lonely disorienting [...]]]></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[Canada]]></category>
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		<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>Social Media &amp; Sustainability 2.0</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/04/07/social-media-sustainability-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[instant karma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Max Gladwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polarity management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[turquoise]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[UDX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[value web]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll be giving a talk on the connections between social media and sustainability next week. As I was doing some research on the topic I came upon this slightly dated piece over at Max Gladwell.
They make a good point that there is nothing &#8220;inherently green about social media.&#8221; Indeed. Social media is exactly what it sounds [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[core value]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[renewable energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safe drinking water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Balmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable products]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[value web]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=177</guid>
		<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>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[Charlie Parker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Co-operation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coherence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collaboration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compliance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Constellation]]></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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		<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>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/03/07/six-levels-of-sustainability-what-you-be-is-what-you-get-6/#comments</comments>
		<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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