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The Dictionary of Sustainable Management is a project of alumni and students from the Presidio Graduate School. Publisher: Jonathan Mariano Design: David Bennett Editors: James Bucklund Sara Brown Bobby Coucoules Megan Crocker Julie Graham Stowe Hartridge-Beam Karin Meyer Shaun Webb Hosting provided by: Nick Aster TriplePundit Founders: Corina Beczner Bob Gower Ruth Katz Nathan Shedroff […]
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GreenTea Party
A grassroots organization of individuals focusing on a constitutionally limited government and sustainability. Core values of the GreenTea Party merge ideas from various points of view: fiscally conservative, socially liberal, and ecologically conscious.
Ethonomics
According to FastCompany: “The end of the modern financial system as we know it has cleared the way for an era of ethical economics, or “Ethonomics.” We live in a world that’s resource-constrained but ingenuity-rich. So an upstart generation of entrepreneurs–and innovators within the world’s biggest companies–are founding businesses that are good for the world […]
Green-collar Jobs
Jobs created by investments and sustainable practices. Many skilled and unskilled jobs traditionally referred to as “blue-collar” jobs may be created and supported through the expansion of incentives and demand for sustainable building and installation of sustainable systems (such as solar panels, “green” remodeling, and gray-water systems) in the residential, commercial, and government markets. These […]
Apathetics
A sector of the market defined by the Roper ASW Green Gauge Report as the least interested in “green” or environmental issues and the least likely to take any action on these issues. In 2007, this group was renamed from “Basic Browns” to “Apatheics” and its numbers fell from 19% to 18% in two years. […]
Sustainability Helix
A tool for helping organizations drive sustainability into the DNA of their corporate structures and funtions. The Helix helps organizations assess their level of involvement as well as ways to integrate sustainability over time across many organizational functions. Co-developed by Natural Capitalism Solutions and graduates from Presidio School of Management, it tracks efforts in 6 […]
Sustainable Market
Ideally, a market that is capable of operating continuously while meeting today’s (global) economic, environmental, and social needs without compromising the opportunity for future generations to use the market to meet their own needs. In practice, a sustainable market is a market that is moving toward that ideal.
Mission Related Investing
The investment of a foundation’s endowment assets in opportunities that align with its program goals. Some foundations have common under criticism for endowment investments in companies who are seen to cause the very problems their programs seek to remedy.
