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Roberto Crotti and Cecilia Serin: Being Sustainable Makes You More Competitive — Not Less

Cecilia Serin World Economic Forum
Roberto Crotti World Economic Forum
October 27, 2014
For the last three years, the World Economic Forum has been working on better analysing and measuring how sustainability relates to national competitiveness.
 
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Michael H. Posner: Why It Pays for Businesses to Boost Sustainability

Michael H Posner Nyu Stern School Of Business
September 05, 2014
In recent weeks, Samsung suspended its operations with a key supplier in China because of allegations of child labor in its production facilities. Major oil companies faced environmental challenges in the fields where they operate, from the Amazon to West Africa, and internet providers continued to respond to intense public pressures to enhance privacy protections for their users in the aftermath of the Snowden/NSA disclosures.
 
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Paul Bulla: How Urban Waste Is Powering Rural Sustainability

Paul Bulla Comcor Environmental Limited
September 03, 2014
The term “sustainability” is used more and more in urban settings today. With cities expanding, buildings reaching new heights and global populations exploding, it’s logical to implement environmentally responsible initiatives to dispose of the wastes these lifestyles generate. But what we don’t hear much about is the importance of sustainability after disposing of these wastes. Quite often, final disposal occurs in massive landfills, where waste is left to slowly decompose for many years.
 
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Dr. Dan Wicklum: Environmental Innovation in Canada’s Oil Sands

Dr Dan Wicklum Cosia
August 28, 2014
Science and innovation have played a key role in the development of Canada’s oil sands resources from the very beginning. The first scientific assessment of the oil sands was conducted in 1848, more than 150 years ago. Since then, the spirit of innovation and the application of science and technology have allowed Canada to become a world leader in the responsible production of unconventional resources like the oil sands.
 
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More From Less — Cleantech’s New Wave

Grant Allen Abb Technology Ventures
May 26, 2014
Cleantech is thriving. This may sound like the jawing of one of those clipboard yielding, sidewalk-canvassing, save-the-planet types, but the data are clear: As bruised and imperfect a descriptor as it is, cleantech not only has a heartbeat, it’s booming.
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Shale Boom Built on ‘Junk’

Brock N Meeks Ideas Lab
May 19, 2014
The so-called “shale revolution” in the U.S. may be powered by innovation but it feasts on the financial equivalent of junk food, according to a recent report that questions boom’s the long-term sustainability.
Although share prices for most U.S. exploration and production (E&P) companies are at all-time highs, the elephant in the room is an industry financed by the high-yield debt market, better known as “junk bonds.” The S&P says that 75 of the 97 energy E&P companies it rates are below investment grade.
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Viewpoint: Let’s get behind an integrated energy policy

March 26, 2014

A call for action on developing a holistic approach to solving our country’s energy challenges.

GE A&NZ President and CEO, Steve Sargent

Now is the right time for the Australian Government to deliver policy clarity and investment certainty for our shared energy future.

The Government has a clear mandate to repeal the carbon tax, but it also has an opportunity to deliver on its plans for an integrated energy policy that considers the full suite of energy solutions including gas, coal, renewables, battery storage and distribution.
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The Water-Energy Nexus: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Brock N Meeks Ideas Lab
March 18, 2014
The crucial water-energy nexus teeters on the precipice of global concern, where it has for too long been ignored or marginalized for the sake of short-term goals or shortsighted political agendas, according to experts across a wide array of disciplines, industry and non-governmental organizations.
Water and energy are the prime factors in a complex calculus that sustains life as we know it.  The two are inextricably linked.  Water is needed for almost all forms of energy production, and we need energy to treat and transport water. Both are needed to produce food.
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Making Fracking More Efficient With Prescriptive Analytics

Atanu Basu Ayata
March 17, 2014
It’s difficult to make fracking more efficient and safer at the same time, but we can hedge our bets using the advanced data technologies of “prescriptive analytics.”
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How to Bury a Climate Bomb

GE Look Ahead
March 13, 2014
In August 2011, the Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) and its partners began drilling a well into the layer of soft sandstone located a mile beneath its headquarters in Decatur, Illinois. This was unusual in two respects. First, ADM isn’t an energy concern–it is the world’s largest agricultural commodities company. Second, the well wasn’t meant to extract oil or gas, but to inject carbon dioxide back into the ground.
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