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Green finance through shared savings

Norbert Bol

There are however other possibilities to implement green technologies or sustainability where different sources of capital are being used and/or better financial metrics can apply also in a degrowth scenario (see also my blog Degrowth is more than an oxymoron? ), where profitability is aligned with decreasing consumption. Norbert Bol.

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Sustainable consumption to be happy and healthy?

Norbert Bol

2019) conclude that declining consumption leads to lower happiness is worrisome. I would like to repeat my closing remark in my former blog wishing you a happy and healthy new year. Growing consumption does not increase happiness or health! Happiness and health are not a growth driver for more consumption. The fact that Fanning et al.

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Corporate culture on sustainability

Norbert Bol

In my last blog I related culture to sustainability. In the april 2019 edition of the Journal of Cleaner Production there is an interesting article about corporate culture and corporate sustainability by Islam et al. S ustainability issues are often multidimensional and cannot only be managed through logic. Norbert Bol.

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Sustainable futures based on Shakespeare

Norbert Bol

Last week I wrote about the use of narratives in strategic foresight using the speeches of Steve Jobs as examples (see last week’s blog ). In their article, Van Cattenburg & Duijn (2019), show that the allegorical pattern is useful to reflect on all relevant perspectives to stimulate integral learning. Norbert Bol.

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Green finance through shared savings

Norbert Bol

There are however other possibilities to implement green technologies or sustainability where different sources of capital are being used and/or better financial metrics can apply also in a degrowth scenario (see also my blog Degrowth is more than an oxymoron? ), where profitability is aligned with decreasing consumption. Norbert Bol.

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How sustainable consumption relates to knowledge, seriousness and culture

Norbert Bol

Earlier this year I have related sustainable consumption to happiness and health in my blog Sustainable consumption to be happy and healthy Today I want to discuss the relationship between sustainable consumption, knowledge, seriousness and culture based on an international study by Lasarov et al. Norbert Bol. Literature. Lasarov, W.,

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Successful office investments in disruptive times

Norbert Bol

In this blog I want to share the main content my presentation in a more aggregated way. However the rate of diffusion is still relatively slow (see my recent blog about Successful Sustainability ). Original post on Linked In: Norbert Bol (25 February 2019), Successful office investments in disruptive times. Norbert Bol.