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8 Nonprofits Championing Environmental Sustainability on Earth Day

Classy

Volkswagen, GM, Amazon, and the USPS pledged a commitment to green vehicles. Organization Mission: The Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI) believes in creating a diverse community of change-makers across sectors and disciplines to drive an equitable, decarbonized, and resilient energy ecosystem. Southern Environmental Law Center.

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Classy Welcomes Ford Foundation COO Depelsha McGruder to Its Board of Directors

Classy

Before joining the Ford Foundation, McGruder served as COO of New York Public Radio (NYPR), where she led daily operations and strategic planning for WNYC Radio, WNYC Studios, WQXR, Gothamist.com, and The Greene Space. McGruder is also the founder and president of Moms of Black Boys United and M.O.B.B.

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Why Nonprofits Are Needed in the Sharing Economy

Tech Soup

At the SHARE Conference last month, I spent time watching venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and techies praise how the sharing economy was the new way to make money and catalyze sharing and change. Despite having modeled institutionalized sharing for literally centuries ( hello, public libraries!

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The Internal is the new External: EDF Business Innovation Exchange

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Environmental Defense Fund tackles the most serious environmental problems with four pronged approach: sound science , economic incentives , corporate partnerships , and getting the law right. (If you want to learn more about the organization, their CEO, Fred Krupp , is on Twitter and does his own tweets!)

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Benefit Corporations: Back to Purpose

Tech Soup

B Labs is working to create a new model for business : "When you support a B Corporation, you’re supporting a better way to do business. Business is the most powerful force on the planet and can be a positive instrument for change. Both bills have now been signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Green Technology. Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. It’s your car watching your every move to make your travel safe and efficient; it’s cameras on traffic lights and road-bed sensors watching your car’s every move to see that it obeys the laws.

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How To Be A Green Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Thursday, October 28, 2010 How To Be A Green Leader You can be a green leader at work and help save the planet and money for your business, by following these practices and instilling these habits with your employees: Photocopiers: Use the "standby" button on your copiers and that will lighten your energy load by 70 percent.

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