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How A Smaller Business Can Go Green
These days businesses don’t just go green because it’s what they believe in. A lot of them simply go green because they know it’s what people expect of them. It’s a brutal truth, but in the main, the corporate big wigs are going to push towards whatever saves them money, or makes them money. But how does the smaller businesses make this worth their while?
Corporate Social Responsibility: Why Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) statements have appeared on the websites of companies across the world in the past few years. This is likely to be a direct response to the heightened awareness surrounding the environment. But what exactly is a CSR statement?
Going Green Podcast Guest: When Science Meets Business
Reducing overall energy consumption is quite different than just becoming more energy efficient. I had a chat with Dylan Welch on the Going Green Podcast about how we can use Energy-as-Strategy to identify #risks and #opportunities that a pure financial analysis would leave on the table.
Cleantech Opportunities in Blockchain
Jimmy Jia of The Jia Group, in conversation with David Schwartz, Chief Technology Officer at Ripple.
A Conversation with Eric Redman, CEO of Thunderbolt Energy
Jimmy Jia (MBA 2008, Oxford Business Alumni Network Saïd Business School) and Eric Redman, CEO of Thunderbolt Energy, discuss the state of cleantech and renewable deployment.
How the Energy Balance Sheet Enhances Corporate Strategy
Increasingly, businesses are realizing the need to lower their energy use and, therefore, their associated carbon footprint. They understand that not only do customers demand it, but if done effectively it enhances their bottom line while also helping mitigate unhealthy environmental consequences and even providing social benefits.
The Case for Energy Statements
It is a frequent saying among environmentalists that businesses need to value the environment more. They point to examples of pollution, global warming, deforestation. At the same time, the proliferation of climate metric systems, such as the triple bottom line, science-based targets, the GRIs, have been unable to put the brakes on seemingly wanton environmental destruction.
Opportunity Knocks: An Alignment of Finance and Climate Concerns.
A major opportunity has appeared that capitalizes on a seemingly contradictory, but fantastic convergence – the need to invest in climate actions with a general underfunding of energy efficiency measures in companies. Why fantastic? Let me explain.
The Corporate Energy Strategist’s Handbook
In an era in which scientists say we are approaching a point of no return in terms of climate change, companies are looking for ways to improve productivity of innovations that reduce environmental footprints. This book presents a large selection of decision-making frameworks for strategy and sustainability management.
Turning the lens around: Using energy co-benefits as a prioritization tool
Unfortunately, clean energy is rarely a company’s No. 1 concern — running a business is. Frequently, this gets simplified to "profit" motives — which is true in many cases.
How to Invent Old Technologies
We innately understand that our society has benefited from readily available energy. What we seem to have forgotten is whether energy is actually needed to achieve a specific societal benefit. We should clearly define the outcome then build the best energy system to deliver that benefit.
Filling the Energy Vacuum
Business executives can and are seizing the opportunity to show leadership in this confusing and uncertain time. It’s not only for the common good, it just makes good financial sense.
The Business of Planting Trees
A business sustains its operations by making money. Revenues must be greater than expenses, and a successful business is able to repeat this year over year. To do so, they must manage risks to both sustain and grow revenue while controlling and lowering expenses. Businesses manage revenue-side risks by erecting competitive barriers to entry, investing in marketing and training a sales force. They manage expense-side risks by creating rules around fiscal discipline, developing risk-management policies and buying business continuity insurance.
Driven by Demand: How Energy Gets Its Power
Energy plays a central role in shaping our society and infrastructure, making it increasingly important for today's leaders to understand the impact of energy decisions. Driven by Demand takes a fresh approach by exploring the emergence of energy systems, outcomes and priorities.
Energy and the Perception of Time
Strange as it might sound, the evolution of energy has greatly affected our perception of time.