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One Great Idea
One Great Idea is a video series that brings together the leading thinking and lessons learned in the world of corporate sustainability. Think you've got a One Great Idea? Send us a note (but read this first).
Featured Content
- Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in swapping, sharing, bartering, trading and renting being reinvented through the latest technologies and peer-to-peer marketplaces.
- The chief mission officer at Organic Valley offers insight into the company's efforts to engage consumers by credibly communicating its sustainability message.
- Carrotmob pioneered a way to influence business by amassing a network of consumers who spend money in order to reward companies for doing social good. Founder Brent Schulkin tells how this approach...
- A recent global study of 4,000 facility and real estate executives found four organizational practices for improving energy efficiency.
- Long-standing trends in the energy efficiency of computing promise an explosion in data collected from mobile sensors and controls. From the 2012 VERGE DC conference.
- To help shoulder grid expenditure from growing electric vehicle sales, RevTech is developing a virtual power plant platform and fast response energy storage capacity.
- Zipcar's co-founder and former CEO discusses how sharing taps into excess capacity in its many forms, and how technology enables lower search, transaction and access costs.
- Ellen Weinreb identifies companies that have found over $100 million in savings stemming from employee’s suggestions. She highlights sustainability innovations as well as the systems that...
- An Internet-enabled vehicle that combines the efficiency and freedom of a motorcycle with the safety and convenience of a car.
- What will it take to connect 50 billion devices by 2020 and what value is created by these connections? Exploring how a cloud platform for the "Energy Internet" addresses the complexities...
Top Picks
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Zipcar's co-founder and former CEO discusses how sharing taps into excess capacity in its many forms, and how technology enables lower search, transaction and access costs.
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Matt Rogers, Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Nest Labs tells how his company integrates design and technology to create a better thermostat — and make home energy management easy, understandable, and cool.
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Lorrie Vogel, the head of Considered Design at Nike, shares her One Great Idea for how companies can work together, sharing their expertise, to move the ball forward on sustainability.
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What vehicle architecture is most appropriate for global markets in the 21st century? Come hear how one great idea for an idealistic car is becoming a commercialized reality that could change the future of automotive transport.
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David Bartlett, IBM's Vice President of Industry Solutions, talks about the massive amounts of information that smarter buildings have to share, and why companies need to start listening to buildings.
Videos
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David Bartlett, IBM's Vice President of Industry Solutions, talks about the massive amounts of information that smarter buildings have to share, and why companies need to start listening to buildings.
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Adam Lowry, the Chief Greenskeeper at Method, talks about the importance of designing innovative products with the end user in mind.
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Lorrie Vogel, the head of Considered Design at Nike, shares her One Great Idea for how companies can work together, sharing their expertise, to move the ball forward on sustainability.
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What vehicle architecture is most appropriate for global markets in the 21st century? Come hear how one great idea for an idealistic car is becoming a commercialized reality that could change the future of automotive transport.
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John Wilbanks, the Vice President of Science at Creative Commons, talks about the transformative power of making knowledge 're-useful.'