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Here are 5 modern KPIs to build into your overall business goals [SPONSORED]
Expecting a different result from the same tired strategies should be the last thing you bring into a new decade, so start to implement some new KPIs today.
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Fear and hope at Copenhagen – a Gen Y perspective
On Monday we published Dave Sag’s first post from Copenhagen. Today we received this diary entry from 26-year-old Australian Wendy Miller, who is attending the Copenhagen COP15 climate change summit as a member of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition.
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All atwitter at Copenhagen
Dave Sag is in Copenhagen this week covering the COP15 climate change summit for Anthill. This is his first post in the series.
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Cleantech sector gathers momentum with launch of Sydney Cleantech Network
This week we were presented with further evidence that cleantech is rapidly gaining mainstream status in Australia with the launch yesterday of the Sydney Cleantech Network (SCN).
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Is your business profiting from solar power?
Electricity prices right across Australia are increasing sharply as power companies struggle to maintain expensive infrastructure and boost shareholder returns.
What’s more, our reliance on fossil fuels to produce that electricity means we face a growing chorus of criticism over the impact that coal mining and pollution from power stations is making on our environment.
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Sustainability in business is not a side project
With increasing pressure from external regulatory bodies and savvy consumers looking to make smarter and more responsible purchasing decisions, it is more important now than ever to operate sustainably. But it isn’t a matter of simply planting trees or installing energy-saving light bulbs. It is imperative that companies take responsibility for their operations and, ultimately,…
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Green Box: Pizza box turns into plates and storage unit
Saving the planet one pizza at a time… sort of. Green Box is manufactured from 100 percent recycled material and can be easily broken down into serving plates and a handy pizza storage container, eliminating the need for plastic wrap, tin foil or plastic bags. Simple.
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I see REDD, I see REDD, I see REDD
Okay, this is, for some people, going to be an uncomfortable column to read as I am going to seriously challenge what for many seems like an obvious ‘conventional wisdom’. In many cases it is better for the planet if you offset your carbon emissions than if you reduce them via your own in-house efficiencies. The woman with the fully carbon offset Hummer is probably a better friend to the planet than the man in his non-offset Prius.
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ClickGreen.com.au
A few months back I wrote about FreeRice.com, an online word definition game run by the UN’s World Food Programme, which donates 20 grains of rice to needy people around the globe for every word correctly defined by users. Since then, several people have told me that they made FreeRice their homepage and spend the…
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Clean is the new green
Not so long ago, cleantech was an indulgence reserved for tech geeks, fringe-dwelling eco-activists and latte liberals crusading against their own existential guilt. Today, cleantech is on the brink of mainstream adoption, with a ready market of consumers eager to reduce their impact on the environment. Australia has no shortage of clever researchers churning out…
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How do carbon credits actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
Previously, I covered how cap and trade schemes provide economic incentives for businesses to gradually reduce their carbon emissions in a cost-optimal manner. I didn’t however, discuss the different kinds of carbon credit schemes or how they really serve to physically reduce atmospheric carbon levels. Carbon credits are simply a receipt for service; that service…
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What are Carbon Credits anyway?
The very best way to reduce your emission of carbon into the atmosphere is to make appropriate behavioural and structural changes so that you physically cease to emit so much carbon. Sounds obvious, hey? But the devil is in the detail.
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The sky’s the limit
Every societal challenge produces a fascinating set of market opportunities. Climate change is no exception. Last year, I read the Australian writer Tim Flannery’s excellent book, The Weather Makers, in which he takes the complex and potentially bewildering topic of climate change and paints it in such a way as to be accessible to…
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The sky's the limit
Every societal challenge produces a fascinating set of market opportunities. Climate change is no exception. Last year, I read the Australian writer Tim Flannery’s excellent book, The Weather Makers, in which he takes the complex and potentially bewildering topic of climate change and paints it in such a way as to be accessible to…
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Green goes mainstream
ECO ENTREPRENEURS It took a while, but even the most hardened sceptics now acknowledge the reality of global warming and other damaging human footprints on the planet. So why have so many businesses been slow to embrace the green revolution? Intrepid reporters Liz Heynes, Catherine Kerstjens and Jodie O’Keeffe take a look at nine Australian…
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Dr Don Fry – Aussie all-rounder
Dr Don Fry’s ultimate objective in life is to see every home on Earth powered by sun and water. As owner and director of AIMTEK, Fry has designed and built 225 ships and trained 1,000 apprentices. Now he wants to fly from Sydney to London in two hours and unleash the sun’s nuclear power.
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Strategy: Customer feedback loops
Being the first to react to changing customer needs and preferences is often the difference between business success and failure. Witness, for example, how quickly Sony lost its early dominance of the portable music device market to Apple, which responded faster and more innovatively to demand for digital audio devices.
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Green Tech: innovations that won't cost the earth
As Mother Earth groans under the weight of human progress, smart and efficient environmental technologies are gaining currency. Global warming, dwindling power supplies, toxic waste and alarming plant and animal extinction rates all point to the need for change. While many of us still pay lip service to our need to get greener, these six…
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Green Tech: innovations that won’t cost the earth
As Mother Earth groans under the weight of human progress, smart and efficient environmental technologies are gaining currency. Global warming, dwindling power supplies, toxic waste and alarming plant and animal extinction rates all point to the need for change. While many of us still pay lip service to our need to get greener, these six…
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