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The Environmental And Economic Costs Of Curbside Recycling

The Horizons Tracker

Recycling offers a comparable or even superior return on investment to strategies like transitioning to electric vehicles or purchasing green power, which utilizes renewable energy sources. In 2011, during the most lucrative period for recycling markets, the annual cost per household in the United States was as low as $3.

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The ROLE of Emotional Intelligence in Effective Leadership Today

The Center For Leadership Studies

Leaders who didn’t have that figured out before 2020 have certainly had a crash course—or crashed and burned. Jossey-Bass; 2011:30. Zig Ziglar is known for saying, “You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.” At every level of the organization, EI’s pivotal role is to help the leader: Manage self.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

Americans — and American companies — have also connected the dots between clean energy and economic growth, with 87% last year saying that developing clean energy should be a priority for the President and Congress. Renewables are growing faster than any other kindof of power generation, with more solar panels installed in the U.S.

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Strong Returns Seen From Investments In Green Infrastructure

The Horizons Tracker

This is reflected in Europe, with the European Commission arguing that up to 290 billion euros per year will be needed to develop green energy and infrastructure. Research from EDHEC Business School suggests that such investments would provide a good return, even when compared to investments in fossil-energy infrastructure.

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Sustainability Matters in the Battle for Talent

Harvard Business Review

Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million. Statoil , a Scandinavian energy company, launched a climate and energy program in 2011 that nominates 10 senior executives to take part in a year-long program.

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The Changing Role of Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

The company would double the size of its business, he said, by channeling its efforts toward achieving eight ambitious goals by 2020 — among them, doubling the proportion of Unilever's portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, and halving the water associated with the consumer use of its products.

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Smart Cities Are Going to Be a Security Nightmare

Harvard Business Review

Inexpensive sensors, for example, can reduce the energy wasted in street lights or regulate the flow of water to better preserve resources. This is how hackers gained access to an Illinois water utility control system in 2011 , destroying a water pump that serviced 2,200 customers.