How to Drive Environmental Sustainability in Government
GSA is driving sustainability in its building portfolio by reducing energy consumption, water consumption, and carbon emissions; and lowering operating costs.

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NBTA Publishes CSR Toolkit
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) News: Marks & Spencer Gives Sustainability Award to Dole Foods Farm; National Business Travel Association Publishes CSR Toolkit.

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Nonprofit Sustainability
Program sustainability is a challenge for nonprofits even in the best of times. Two nonprofits, one suburban and one rural, discuss the steps they have taken to create outdoor chore programs that are best positioned to survive in the current economic environment. Colleen Fritsch from DARTS and Sandy Graves from Neighbors in Action walk you through the steps of estimating costs and capacity, identifying stakeholders and establishing collaborations in order to create programs that can thrive.

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Sustainable Construction: Concrete by David Rosenberg
David co-founded Hycrete, Inc. in 2002 with the goal of fixing the biggest problems associated with concrete, the world's most used construction material. Since then David has successfully led Hycrete's growth through major venture financing, domestic and international expansion, and a broadening of business focus to incorporate design, integration expertise and service through commercial, infrastructure and residential construction. David has emerged as a world leader in sustainable construction innovation and has lead Hycrete admixture through the very first Cradle to Cradle certification. David is a member of an advisory board to Cradle to Cradle, received his BA from UNC Chapel Hill, and holds an MBA from Columbia University.

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Alcoa CTO on Sustainability
Mohammad Zaidi, chief technology officer for Alcoa and chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development's Vision 2050 Project, talks to CNBC

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Earthkeepers and Sustainable Branding
Timberland's Chief Marketing Officer, Mike Timberland, speaks in an interview with Sustainable Life Media's Mario Vellandi on topics including: social media, brand stories and content that resonates with customers, what works and what doesn't. Additionally, Mike explains how Earthkeepers isn't just a shoe, but also a brand platform for authentic and credible communications with stakeholders and the public on Timberland's corporate responsibility commitment and environmental stewardship efforts, and what they care about as a company. A human relationship with the great outdoors based on respect, love, and adventure. Learn more about Sustainable Business & Design at: http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com

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Accounting and Sustainability: Reform or deformation?
Larry O'Connor, lecturer in accounting in the business school of La Trobe University in Australia started out with his inquiry as to how accounting is bringing about changes towards a more sustainable economy and has come to the conclusion that it isn't. The driver remains idealogy of the free market is set within a certain value set and has been misrepresented as an "agenda of reform," but is really deforming, putting economics at the center spot, making the economic value at the center of all things to include turning Universities into profit centers. As a result, accounting is being used to entrench the status quo rather than to benefit sustainability. ; Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing explores the same territory and together from different spots in the planet they make a strong argument for an informed citizen to question the idealogy of the free market. Raj Patel, like Larry O'Connor can be found on Earthsayers.tv, the voices of sustainability. This video was produced by Ruth Ann Barrett, producer, EarthSayers.tv as part of her participation in Portland State University's Social Sustainability Network. The video was made in June, 2010.

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Green Plus Info Session
This information session talks about what Green Plus can do for your small business to help you navigate the journey of triple bottom line sustainability. No matter where your organization is now, the Green Plus program meets you when you are and provide education, networking opportunities, and recognition.

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How to engage Youth: Green My Parents Program
GreenMyParents is a revolutionary, nationwide program to help young people teach their peers and parents how to work together to help the economy, earn money at home, and save the planet through simple, everyday actions. Launched on Earth Day 2010, this movement enables youth to bring their insightful perspective on how to reduce their parents’ use of resources and save money at home to make a huge difference in saving the planet and securing their future. Starting with 100 youth, champions like - Jordan Howard and Adora Svitak – who are recruiting 100 kids each, and training them to do the same, we intend to save over $100 Million in less than one year from Earth Day 2010 to Earth Day 2011.

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Business and sustainability
Hugh Saddington, of Telstra's Market Strategy and Analytics, discusses why sustainability is so important to business.

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