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Tuesday, 16 January 2018
The Hard Work of Making Sustainability Management Real
To have meaningful change on sustainability, corporations, nonprofits and governments must bring it into the regular fabric of organizational
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Peat in the Tropics
As has been previously discussed in Robert’s blog, fertile soil is an incredibly important resource that is fast running out in many regions of the world. It is true that soil’s importance for agriculture (and sustainable development) cannot be understated, but I wish to focus on another aspect of soil in this week’s blog– its ability to store carbon. One soil type in particular, peat, is an incredibly important form of carbon storage. Despite only covering 3% of the Earth’s land [...]Our Earliest Bloomer
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The comments on this Ask a Manager post, from someone who was uncomfortable using Uber/Lyft and preferred taxis, ended up going into four digits. Most of them were anti-taxi. I've mentioned quite a few times [...]Menschheitsgeschichte muss nicht neu geschrieben werden: Der „Fall Untermaßfeld“
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