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Renowned speaker on leadership, change, future trends, environmental leadership, strategic change, energy efficiency and more.
Best selling author of Blindsided. A Crisis is a Terrible Thing coming 2010!
McKinsey & Company’s report, Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost?, assesses more than 200 strategies for cutting carbon across 10 sectors by 2030. The stunning finding is that 40% of the North American CO2 reductions that need to be made can be achieved at a profit.
Wal-Mart launched its sustainability initiatives in 2005. I attended a quarterly sustainability meeting led by then-CEO Lee Scott in Bentonville, Ark., at the company’s headquarters.
My most recent column in backbone magazine focuses on the decline of newspapers. Read an excerpt below:
For newspapers it has been death by a thousand cuts: American readership has been falling by more than 700,000 a year since 2000, according to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), and revenue was already down when the recession came along and shot another body blow to advertising income.
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Imagine going through school and receiving no marks on your tests, essays or final exams. At the end of the year you received a single mark — not even broken out by subject. How much value would that mark have? Would you be able to improve?
In electricity planning, everything is geared to peak demand. About 15% of the total generation capacity in Ontario is required because of peak demand for 50 out of the 8,760 hours a year. In other words: Billions of dollars of capital cost are spent in developing the capacity to prepare for and supply demand which occurs only 0.57% of the time.
Green jobs are a hot topic. Barack Obama won the U.S. presidency by promising to create five million green collar jobs. Green jobs protect and restore ecosystems, reduce energy consumption, minimize or eliminate waste and pollution and can be in agriculture, manufacturing, research and development, administration and service activities.
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