Author Archives: vreni1
Crowdsourcing, Innovation, and Sustainability
Why are you drawn to sustainability? Because you love nature? You want to protect the environment? Because it’s good for business? How about because sustainability is driving amazing innovations? I’m fascinated by the new technologies being developed to solve environmental … Continue reading Continue reading
Green Buildings: More Value Than You Can Imagine
This blog is also posted on Triple Pundit. The full story of green buildings is still being discovered. Up to now, the story of green buildings has been described as a costly luxury. The emphasis to date has been on … Continue reading Continue reading
What sustainability efforts could learn from Angry Birds
(This is Part 2, which explores how gamification can “green” employee behavior in order to achieve business goals. Last month, Part 1 explored how gamification can attract customers and “green” their behavior.) This post also published by GreenBiz.com. What do … Continue reading Continue reading
Gamification To “Green” Customer Behavior
(This is Part 1, which explores how gamification can attract customers and “green” their behavior. Next month, Part 2 will explore how gamification can “green” employee behavior in order to achieve business goals.) This post also published by GreenBiz.com. Leading-edge … Continue reading Continue reading
Green Buildings: More Value Than You Can Imagine
The full story of green buildings is still being discovered. Up to now, the story of green buildings has been described as a costly luxury. The emphasis to date has been on costs – the costs of green materials, costs … Continue reading
Cash for Trash: Innovative Companies Profitably Upcycle, Recycle and Reduce Waste
Upcycling is good for business AND the environment Turning worm poop into fertilizer was TerraCycle’s first big idea. Then they transformed discarded drink containers into consumer bling, which made them a world-recognized leader in this hot, new trend of “upcycling”. … Continue reading
Puma’s Ground-Breaking Environmental P&L
Puma did something remarkable. It is one of the first companies to put a monetary value on its environmental impact and publicly release it as an environmental profit and loss statement (“EP&L”). The total cost of its environmental impact in … Continue reading
Valuing Ecosystem Services
Often environmental sustainability issues are so global and abstract, that it is difficult to know what it means for me or my small business. For example, I recently read an interesting blog on Greenbiz on about companies seeing the value … Continue reading
Time to Close the Fracking Loophole
This blog is also posted on Triple Pundit. Latest Developments The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced that hydraulic fracturing (fracking) may be to blame for causing groundwater pollution. Although the findings are specific to Wyoming, it will likely influence … Continue reading
Surprising Places to Harvest Water
This comment is also posted on Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit. Ned Breslin of Water for People is right. Millions of dollars are wasted every year on water projects around the world that break, are abandoned, or prove to be … Continue reading
