Sunday 22 June 2014

Biodiversity and corporate sustainability

http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2014/06/biodiversity-next-step-sustainability.html#more-30912

In terms of innovation and opportunity, businesses have invented a number of ways to use biodiversity to create value. These are just a few of the more popular ideas:
  • Market biodiversity and its protection as a key value proposition to customers
  • Leverage cross-sector partnerships to promote transparency
  • Look to big data to support decision-making
  • Utilize natural processes to replace cost-side efforts
  • Build new products inspired by or directly using biodiversity and biomimicry
  • Account for biodiversity as a revenue-generating asset
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Tuesday 10 June 2014

People for Smarter Cities, water examples

http://people4smartercities.com/series/big-buy-how-city-and-its-citizens-got-smart-about-water