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Articles : All [8] | News Articles [9] | Stanford Social Innovation Review Articles [10] | Blog Posts [11]
Environment [12], Human Rights [13]
The Problem with Fair Trade Coffee [14]
Cover Image: Summer 2011 [15]
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2011

Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in consumer familiarity and sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers. By failing to address these problems, industry confidence in Fair Trade coffee is slipping.

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Environment [12], Government [16], Nonprofit Management [17]
Research: Virtue or Else [18]
Cover Image: Summer 2011 [15]
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2011

Under the EPA’s Audit Policy, violators who voluntarily report themselves can get certain penalties reduced or waived if they commit to ongoing self-regulation…. But is that promise any more than window dressing?

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Environment [12]
Research: Making the News [20]
Cover Image: Summer 2011 [15]
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2011

The media introduce social movements to the masses, but how do social movements make it into the media?

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Socially Responsible Business [22], Environment [12]
New Knight Management Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Business to Achieve Highest Level of Environmental Sustainability [23]

The Stanford Graduate School of Business opens the Knight Management Center, a new facility of eight buildings around three quads designed to support an innovative MBA curriculum. The center is expected to achieve the highest LEED Platinum® rating for environmental sustainability from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Resource: News Article
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12], Social Entrepreneurship [25]
Picking Green Tech’s Winners and Losers [26]
Cover Image: Spring 2011 [15]
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2011

Unless clean tech follows well-established rules of innovation and commercialization, the industry’s promise to provide sustainable sources of energy will fail.

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Environment [12], Government [16]
Removing Barriers for Clean Tech Energy Entrepreneurs Raises Issues [37]
[photo - Clean Tech Energy]

Streamlining balky government permit processes or convoluted global supply chains are just some of the challenges in the "Valley of Death" faced by fledgling clean energy firms, government officials were told during a Stanford forum.

Resource: News Article
Environment [12], Government [16]
Stanford Energy Center Director Dan Reicher Testifies before Congress on Energy Regulations and Financing [38]

Dan Reicher, executive director of Stanford University's Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, today testified before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power in a hearing on "EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulations and Their Effect on American Jobs."

Resource: News Article
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12], Government [16], Leadership [39]
McNutt Describes How Cowboys, Engineers, and Scientists Plugged the BP Oil Leak [40]

When oil began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico last year, scientists, engineers, and operations workers all had different ideas about what to do. The biggest lesson may have been getting these different groups to work together, Marcia McNutt of the USGS told a Stanford Graduate School of Business audience.

Resource: News Article
Global Issues [41], Economic Development [42], Environment [12]
Input sought from food researchers hungry for campus collaborations [43]

Faculty and students from all parts of the Stanford University campus, including Professor Sarah Soule from the business school, will gather Nov. 3 for the University's first Food Summit to discuss ways to develop broad-based answers to the world's food problems.

Resource: News Article
Environment [12]
Electric Cars, Clean Coal Should Go Together [44]

The United States will see a slow move toward electric car adoption in the next 5-to-10 years while China will see only a small market for cars but big opportunities to manufacture and export batteries. A Stanford MBA student class study doubts either nation will move quickly to adopt clean coal technology.

Resource: News Article
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12], Social Entrepreneurship [25]
A Fine Green Niche [46]
Cover Image: Fall 2009 [15]
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2009

Maria Yee established her eco-friendly, high-end furniture company long before going green was the done thing. Two decades later, her company’s environmentally sound practices not only reflect a planet-friendly ethos, but also drive a market-friendly creative edge. Here’s how and why Yee stays green in a brown industry.

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Environment [12]
Good Guy vs. Good Guy [48]
Cover Image: Fall 2009 [15]
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2009

Western indigenous peoples’ activists vs. Western conservationists

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12]
Greening the Corporation [49]
Cover Image: Summer 2009 [15]
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Summer 2009

STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABILITY: A Business Manifesto by Adam Werbach  Review by Amory Lovins

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Environment [12]
Shades of Green [51]
Cover Image: Spring 2009 [15]
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2009

Using social networking tools, the author reveals the intricate web of relationships that exist between business and environmentalists and suggests ways that these relationships could become even more fruitful in the environmental movement. —By Andrew J. Hoffman

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Environment [12], Social Entrepreneurship [25]
Offsetting Green Guilt [52]
Cover Image: Spring 2009 [15]
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2009

Voluntary carbon offsets allow people to invest in projects that allegedly counteract their greenhouse gas emissions. But can voluntary offsets help slow global warming? Or are offsets simply a way for guilt-ridden consumers to buy their way out of bad feelings? —By Matthew J. Kotchen

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Economic Development [42], Environment [12], Social Entrepreneurship [25]
MicroEnergy Credits Corporation: Catalyzing Clean Energy for the BoP [54]

Using existing microfinance institutions and recent developments in the carbon credit markets on the supply side to facilitate the adoption of clean energy for the very poor.

Resource: Blog Post
Video/Audio : All [55] | Audio [56] | Video [57]
Business [58], Environment [12]
Sustainable Water Practices For a Global Corporation [59]
[photo - Picture: Pepsico Director]

Businesses are increasingly focusing on reducing their water footprint as a source of strategic advantage and as a demonstration of good corporate citizenship. In this audio interview, part of a Stanford Center for Social Innovation series on water around the world, Pepsico's Dan Bena talks with Stanford MBA student Ashish Jhina about his company's efforts to reduce water use in its bottling plants and its partnerships to promote sustainable water use in agriculture and to provide improved access to clean drinking water.

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Resource: Audio
Environment [12]
Water's Role in Environmental Sustainability [60]
[photo - Picture: Mic]

What is the best way for entrepreneurs to approach water companies with environmental sustainability solutions that address water problems? In this panel discussion, sponsored by the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, experts and academics share what the water industry is doing to save water and the energy used to produce it for public use. They offer suggestions about how business can best invest in this growing field.

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Resource: Audio
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12]
Environmental Sustainability in Supply Chains [61]

How can a company put environmental sustainability into its DNA? In this university podcast, Joao Paulo Ferreira, VP of operations and logistics, talks about Natura Cosmetics Brasil's supply chain and its challenges to embed sustainability concepts into the way it is designed and operated. He discusses the company's culture of collaboration with indigenous communities, NGOs, and other organizations.

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Resource: Audio
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12]
Corporate Social Responsibility with Cotton Farms [62]

With corporate social responsibility as a business imperative, Levi Strauss has evaluated how well its suppliers are doing on making cotton production more sustainable. In this university podcast, executive Michael Kobori discusses the company's efforts to support organic cotton farming that reduces water use and relies less on child labor, particularly in Uzbekistan.

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Resource: Audio
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12]
Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chains [63]

For Nike, corporate social responsibility has become a business driver rather than an obligation. In this university podcast, Nike's director of global logistics, Dawn Vance, talks about how the company is integrating performance, innovation, and sustainability throughout the entire supply chain. She also shares new efforts to provide a "closed loop" business model in which products can be reclaimed and reused at the end of their functional life.

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Resource: Audio
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12]
Resource Scarcity Will Force Change [64]
[Video-Resource Scarcity Will Force Change]

A new era of global environmental threats is changing the work of the world’s largest conservation organization. World Wildlife Fund President and CEO Carter Roberts describes how the organization is changing.

Resource: Video
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12]
Clean Products [65]
[Video-Clean Products]

Why should professionals care about the environment? Executives from environmentally conscious companies talk about their personal motivation and marketing strategies.

Resource: Video
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12]
The HP Way and Bottom Line Results [66]
[Video-The HP Way and Bottom Line Results]

Vyomesh Joshi, an executive vice president at Hewlett-Packard, talks about how HP is integrating social and environmental responsibility into its bottom line.

Resource: Video
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12]
Greening the Supply Chain [67]
[Video-Greening the Supply Chain]

How did Patagonia make the transition to using 100-percent organic cotton in its product line?  Randy Harward discusses the challenges surrounding internal support, raw materials, and affordability as Patagonia greens its supply chain.

Resource: Video
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12]
Environmental Conservation [68]
[Video-Environmental Conservation]

Will Rogers, president of Trust for Public Land, discusses strategies for sustainable land use in a context where the boundaries that separate land conservation from public health, housing, economic development, transit, energy-use policies, and urban design are rapidly blurring. Amory Lovins, chairman and chief scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute, which fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, profitable, and life-sustaining, discusses issues in his book, Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profit, Jobs, and Security. 

Resource: Video
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12]
Can Corporations Really Change? [69]

Market practices are changing. With a focus on sustainability, corporations are moving toward operations that reduce the environmental impact of their products and services and offer an integrated bottom line. In this audio interview, part of The Future of Green series, host Neal Gorenflo speaks with Maurice Bechard of Diversey and Michael Kobori of Levi Strauss & Co. about the motivations for change and how to approach this shift.

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Resource: Audio
Environment [12], Nonprofit Management [17]
The Role of Social Norms in Energy and Water Conservation [70]
[photo - Picture: Noah Goldstein]
If you stayed in a hotel recently, you may have seen signs that encouraged you to reuse your towel in an effort to conserve resources. What drives you and others to participate in this environmentally and economically beneficial program? Professor Noah Goldstein studies the factors that motivate individuals to engage in prosocial actions using descriptive norms to design effective messages. He presents his research in this audio lecture presented by the Center for Social Innovation.

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Resource: Audio
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12]
Environmental Sustainability for Small Businesses [71]
When does a house painter learn about low VOC paint? Are high-efficiency lightbulbs always better? How can you reduce package waste and still meet client expectations? How can a small business owner keep up with sustainability issues? Now Intuit and eBay have sites where small businesses share their green knowledge. Amy Skoczlas Cole, who runs eBayGreenTeam, and Rupesh Shah of IntuitGreen talk about small business and green.

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Resource: Audio
Environment [12]
New Business Models and Metrics for Water [72]
[photo - Picture: Ned Breslin]
Even after decades of well intentioned efforts by governments and NGOs, clean drinking water and sanitation are still lacking in many parts of the developing world, with thousands of wells, pumps, and toilets lying in disrepair. In this audio interview, part of a Stanford Center for Social Innovation series on water, Water for People CEO Ned Breslin talks with Stanford MBA student Ashish Jhina about the need for new business models and longer-term performance metrics to ensure more sustainable water and sanitation systems in the developing world.

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Resource: Audio
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12]
Using Public-Private Partnerships to Resolve Asia's Water Crisis [73]
[photo - Picture: Arjun Thapan]
Countries all across Asia face the prospect of a water crisis that threatens the sustainability of their already stretched water and irrigation systems. In this audio interview, part of a Stanford Center for Social Innovation series on water around the world, the Asian Development Bank's Arjun Thapan talks with Stanford MBA student Ashish Jhina about the potential of public-private partnerships to catalyze the efficiency improvements required to meet increasing water demand in the face of reduced water availability due to climate change.

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Resource: Audio
Case Studies : All [75] | Academic Cases [76]
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Environment [12], Nonprofit Management [17]
Wild Salmon Center [78]
[photo - William P. Barnett]

The Wild Salmon Center was created to provide anglers access to excellent fishing in return for funding research and conservation. The case discusses the Center’s efforts to protect the pristine watersheds of the Kamchatka Peninsula by developing ecotourism to raise funds for conservation.

Resource: Academic Case
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12], Social Entrepreneurship [25]
Gardenburger [79]

The CEO of Gardenburger, a seller of veggie burger products and other food alternatives to meat, considers the company’s advertising strategy. He aims to take the company from the small health-food niche to the consumer mainstream.

Resource: Academic Case
Environment [12], Social Entrepreneurship [25]
Touring in the Galapagos Islands [80]
[photo - William P. Barnett]

Various economic and environmental issues face the owners of a cruise business in the Galapagos Islands. The case gives special attention to the efforts of locals to preserve and enhance their own ecotourism business prospects.

Resource: Academic Case
Environment [12]
Ma Jun and the IPE: Using Information to Improve China's Environment [81]

The Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs is Chinese environmental non-profit that has single-handedly revolutionized brought pollution standards and compliance to more than 47,000 sites and 22 multinational corporations in China. This case tells the story of the organization and its founder, environmental entrepreneur Ma Jun. 

Resource: Academic Case
Environment [12]
Maria Yee Inc.: Making 'Green' Furniture in China [82]

Maria Yee Inc. occupies a unique position as an environmentally conscious premium household furniture maker with two direct-owned factories in China and distribution through several large U.S. retailers. This case addresses the unique challenges that an entrepreneurial company faces in reaching its full potential as a business while advancing its green strategy.

Resource: Academic Case
Environment [12]
Environmental Enhancements in Road Vehicle Technologies [83]
[photo - Erica L. Plambeck]

In 2007, the issue of global warming brought carbon dioxide emissions to the forefront of Americans’ minds. This paper examines some of the emerging innovations designed to reduce oil consumption.

Resource: Academic Case
Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12]
Disclosure Dilemma: Financial Reporting of Contingent and Environmental Liabilities [84]
[photo - Alan D. Jagolinzer]

The case discusses U.S. and international accounting guidance regarding the disclosure of contingent and environmental liabilities.

Resource: Academic Case
Environment [12]
Fuel Economy Standards 2007 [85]
[photo - David P. Baron ]

In 2007, Congress was discussing a 40 percent increase in required fuel efficiency. The automobile industry had a choice to fight the ruling., but instead decided to focus on influencing the details of the legislation.

Resource: Academic Case
Environment [12]
Note on Energy [86]
[photo - Dennis M. Rohan]

Entrepreneurs and investors will find in this note a broad overview of the energy sector in 2008, highlighting trends and market dynamics.

Resource: Academic Case
Environment [12]
The Electric Car: The Major Players [87]
[photo - Robert A. Burgelman]

The case covers and analyzes the major players in the electric car industry, including start-up and established automakers, battery makers, retrofitters, utility companies and the government.

Resource: Academic Case
Environment [12], Nonprofit Management [17]
Bozeman, Montana, and the Yellowstone Business Partnership [88]
[photo - William P. Barnett]

The economy of Bozeman, Mont., has grown rapidly, but concerns have arisen over the development of environmentally sensitive areas, impact on local businesses, and affordability. The Yellowstone Business Partnership could have a role in directing the city’s future.

Resource: Academic Case
Environment [12], Social Entrepreneurship [25]
A Smart Supply Chain for a Smart Product: Micro Compact Car Smart GmbH [89]
[photo - Hau L. Lee]

With increasing pollution and congestion, European car manufacturers were concerned that governments might eventually ban cars from city centers. The producer of Swatch watches came up with the novel idea of an environmentally friendly, but stylish, super-compact car.

Resource: Academic Case
Environment [12], Nonprofit Management [17], Philanthropy, Responsible Investing [90]
Trust for Public Land [91]

In April 1999 the leaders of a nonprofit that acquired private land for transfer to public use met to discuss their latest internal auditors’ report. They wanted to decide how best to analyze the findings in order to explain to the board why the results did not appear as good as they actually were.

Resource: Academic Case
Environment [12], Social Entrepreneurship [25]
Abercrombie & Kent: Pioneering Global Ecotourism [92]
[photo - William P. Barnett]

Abercrombie & Kent, a safari company, develops an ecotourism business in Kenya. The company must assess its challenges and future directions.

Resource: Academic Case
Environment [12], Social Entrepreneurship [25]
Belize's Community Baboon Sanctuary [93]
[photo - William P. Barnett]

A sanctuary for baboons in Belize has been reformulated to support ecotourism. Numerous management, social, and political issues continue to limit the sanctuary’s growth.

Resource: Academic Case
Research Papers : All [94]
Business [58], Socially Responsible Business [22], Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12]
Don't Tweak your Supply Chain - Rethink It End to End [95]

The article examines environmental issues related to supply chains and supply chain management. Attempts to introduce sustainable practices into supply chains often meet with unexpected financial or environmental costs.

Resource: Research Paper
Socially Responsible Business [22], Corporate Social Responsibility [24], Environment [12]
Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air? [96]

Establishments in better managed firms are significantly less energy intensive. Better managed firms are also significantly more productive. These results suggest that management practices that are associated with improved productivity are also linked to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Resource: Research Paper
Environment [12], Government [16], Leadership [39]
Would Boycotting BP Do Any Good? [97]
[photo - gulf_oil_spill_source_la_times]

Consumer and environmental groups, angry over the spreading oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, are calling for a boycott of BP, the oil giant that owns the well gushing oil onto beaches and marshes. According to research by Phillip Leslie and Larry Chavis, boycotts do in fact work and they're something businesses should be concerned about.

Resource: Research Paper
Environment [12]
A Room with a Viewpoint [98]

Managers and marketers can motivate consumers to participate in environmental conservation programs by telling them how the majority of other people behaved in the same situation. Researchers specifically studied how to ask hotel guests whether or not they wanted to reuse their towels during the course of a stay. The study highlights the benefits of employing social science research and theory—rather than business communicators’ hunches, lay theories, or best guesses—in crafting persuasive messages. Guests given a description : "the majority guests in this hotel asked to reuse their towels," were 9% more likely to make the same decision than guests who were simply asked to "help save the environment" with no information on comparative behavior. Guests were motivated even further when the description matched their social demographic even more closely. They were even more likely to reuse their towels when told the majority of people staying in their room in the past had done so.

Resource: Research Paper
Environment [12]
Slowing Introductions of New Electronic Products Reduces E-Waste [99]

Some types of regulations governing disposal of electronic waste can reduce the world's mountains of devices waiting to be recycled, and also slow the rate of new product introductions says Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Erica Plambeck.

Resource: Research Paper
Courses : All [103]
Environment [12]
Environmental Science for Managers and Policy Makers - advanced: OIT 339 [104]
[photo - Erica Plambeck]

Designed for students with strong modeling/optimization/simulation skills, this course allocates more time to environmental and energy science and its implications for management and policy, and less time to the basics of modeling/optimization/simulation. Students apply spreadsheet modeling, optimization, and Monte Carlo simulation to resource management and environmental policy.

Resource: MBA Course
Environment [12]
Environmental Science for Managers and Policy Makers: OIT 338 [105]
[photo - Erica Plambeck]

This course explores the fundamental science of ecosystems, climate, and energy. Students learn to apply spreadsheet modeling, optimization, and Monte Carlo simulation to resource management and environmental policy.

Resource: MBA Course
Environment [12]
Initiating, Sustaining, and Monetizing Green Marketing: MKTG 551 [106]
[photo - Sridhar Narayanan]

This course addresses numerous questions about how to initiate and sustain green marketing. It also explores what technological and marketing innovations are likely to arise in the future.

Resource: MBA Course
Environment [12]
Business and Environmental Issues: GSBGEN 547 [107]
[photo - Erica Plambeck]

This speaker seminar examines the overlap and synergies between the business and environmental fields. Weekly speakers include leaders from both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.

Resource: MBA Course
Environment [12]
Environmental Entrepreneurship: GSBGEN 339 [108]
[photo - Erica Plambeck]

Markets have tremendous potential for solving environmental problems. Through case analysis, guest speakers, and the creation of business plans in environmental entrepreneurship, students will learn to apply core business principles of finance, marketing, economics, operations, accounting, and more to the provision of environmental goods and services.

Resource: MBA Course
Innovators : All [111]
Environment [12]
Water World [112]
[photo - Robyn Beavers]

Leading a Social Innovation Study Trip lands Robyn Beavers, MBA '10, in a new industry.

Resource: Alumni
Environment [12]
Jeremy Sokulsky, MBA '04 [113]
[photo - Jeremy Sokulsky]

Jeremy Sokulsky, MBA '04, President, Environmental Incentives, discusses how he's drawing upon the tools and training he received from the GSB to help make a difference.

Resource: Alumni
Economic Development [42], Environment [12]
How Growth Can Be Green [114]
[photo - Katie Hill]

A Stanford GSB student looks at the value of renewable energy in the developing world. 

Resource: Student
Environment [12]
Jack May (MBA '84) [115]

Jack shares his unexpected adventures on Kangaroo Island, Australia, and how his discovery in habitat restoration has become an international example.

Resource: Alumni
Environment [12]
Frank Gibson Myers (MBA '66) [116]

"Gib" shares his passion for America’s Great Plains and the possibility and promise of creating a prairie wildlife reserve of three million acres, and the hope it represents.

Resource: Alumni
Environment [12]
Stanford Researchers Help Predict the Oceans of the Future with a Mini-Lab [117]
[photo - Predict the Oceans of the Future]

Scientists from Stanford and elsewhere joined to create a mini-lab in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The device can simulate predicted future ocean conditions – such as rising carbon dioxide levels – and their effects on ecosystems such as coral.

 

Resource: News Article
Environment [12]
A Fresh Look at Renewable Power [118]
[photo - Solar Energy]

Jeffrey Ball, at the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, says it’s time for the world’s approach to renewables to “grow up.”

Resource: News Article
Arts, Culture, and Religion [119], Environment [12], Nonprofit Management [17]
How Do You Encourage Recycling? [120]
[photo - Recycle]

Recycling programs abound, but people are often lackadaisical about putting plastic, paper, glass, and metal into those bins. How can we get more people to recycle? An intervention recently conducted in Canada is pointing the way, and the message is all about ... well, the messaging.

Resource: News Article
Arts, Culture, and Religion [119], Environment [12], Nonprofit Management [17]
The Effectiveness of Message Framing to Influence Behavior [121]
[Video-The Effectiveness of Message Framing to Influence Behavior]

Most observers agree that human consumption is on a crash course with the environment. Although recycling programs have been implemented in many cities around the world, people often do not participate as often as they could. This research examines the effectiveness of messages that highlight the negative consequences of not recycling (loss frames) versus those that emphasize the positive consequences of recycling (gain frames) in influencing people's behavior.

Resource: Video
Environment [12], Nonprofit Management [17]
Sustainable Water Treatment [122]
[photo - Picture: Daniel Smith]
How can a young nonprofit organization make a tangible improvement in people's health through clean water using only the power of gravity? This was the challenge for Daniel Smith and the AguaClara team when they began work to introduce community-level drinking water treatment plants in Honduras. In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman learns from the 2011 Intel Environment Award winners about the importance of using local resources and experts to encourage horizontal learning.

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Resource: Audio
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