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How To Empower Citizens of the World
Though freedoms of speech may seem common to a western audience, many across the world still lack the ability to engage in a public space. Even today, many governments are cracking down on citizens’ freedom to criticize them or hold them accountable. This is coupled...
The B Team Appoints New CEO
Effective August 1, 2018, the B Team will welcome Halla Tómasdóttir as CEO. Tómasdóttir is a successful entrepreneur who founded Auður Capital, an investment firm that focuses on incorporating feminine values into finance. Tómasdóttir was a founding team member...
How Can Companies Practice Sustainability In The Workplace?
In today’s society, it is nearly impossible for companies to avoid using energy in their day to day operations. Examples of energy consumption in the workplace range from providing electricity in the office to keeping the office space cool in the warmer summer months....
How Employees Can Make A Positive Impact On Their Companies
It can be all too easy to sink into a mindset of complacency. Anybody, from an entry-level employee to a boardroom executive, can fall victim to the idea that nothing that they do can make a difference. However, the truth is that activism in the workplace has actually...
How To Restructure Corporate Leadership For Climate Action
With recent shakeups in the Paris Climate Agreement, including the United States withdrawing entirely, others must take up the fight to slow climate change. This is a difficult proposition to be sure, and will require the efforts of a variety of individuals. I’ve...
On the Myth of Clean Coal
There are some things meant to be said around campfires in hushed tones. Outlandish stories of dragons, and epic heroes, and ships made of toenails. These myths are staples of our culture not because they are true, but because, on some level, we hope that there is an...
How Cities Are Working To Fight Climate Change
Part 2 in a series. Read the first part here. Though the US has announced that it will be pulling out of the Paris Agreement, a multinational initiative dedicated to mitigating the effects of climate change, many American cities have doubled down on their commitment...
Turning On the Lights: Solar Power in Developing Countries
When it comes to adopting more sustainable forms of energy such as solar power, countries such as the United States have an existing infrastructure that creates barriers to entry. Though the interest certainly exists among the public and many companies, the problems...
Entrepreneurship—The New Hotbed For Societal Change
Social entrepreneurship: It’s not quite nonprofit work, and it’s not quite capitalism. What it is is a number of businesses, many in the technology sector, trying to make an impact in the world while retaining a traditional business model. This new breed of...
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