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   Achieving Resource Sustainability

   Stanford / Entrepreneurship
   Peter Seligmann
   

   Seligmann affirms that there are many business leaders interested in sustainability who understand the importance of sustainability for resource-related businesses.

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   Sustainability for Non-Profit Organizations

   Stanford / Entrepreneurship
   Kavita Ramdas
   

   Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO of The Global Fund for Women (GFW) understands the importance of sustainability for its grantees because it must also be a sustainable organization. GFW helps grantees by discussing up front ways for strengthening and expanding funding in local communities. She stresses that sustainability is not to be confused with creating a...more

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   Scalability and Sustainability in non-profit sector

   Stanford / Entrepreneurship
   Kim Smith
   

   Scale is very difficult in the non-profit sector, says Smith. The franchise model is not successful because there is no authority or ability to take away value if a franchise is not performing.

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   Sustenance of Growth Rate

   Stanford / Entrepreneurship
   Frank Levinson
   

   The rate at which a company grows will vary for each individual venture, says Levinson. Sustaining the growth can be a tricky thing. He explains Finisar's rapid growth and weighs the pros and cons of quick growth and sustainability.

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   Focusing on Post Sales Experience

   Stanford / Entrepreneurship
   Tien Tzuo
   

   Tzuo explains that with a free trial product model, a high percentage of customers don't end up buying the product. However, it is still important to provide post sales service.  A good point of sustainability is when customers have been using the product for some time and it is difficult to unplug them from it, he says.

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   Conservation International: Achieving Resource Sustainability

   Stanford / Entrepreneurship
   Peter Seligmann
   

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   Nuclear Sustainability and Climate Change

   Stanford / Environmental Studies
   Jacque Bouchard
   

   February 25, 2009 lecture by Jacques Bouchard for the Woods Energy Seminar (ENERGY301). In his talk "Can Nuclear Energy be a Sustainable Contribution to Address Climate Change Concerns? The French Experience," Jacques Bouchard gives a comprehensive overview of France's development and innovation of nuclear energy technology.

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   Global Population Growth

   Yale / Medicine
   Robert Wyman
   

   This survey course introduces students to the important and basic material on human fertility, population growth, the demographic transition and population policy. Topics include: the human and environmental dimensions of population pressure, demographic history, economic and cultural causes of demographic change, environmental carrying capacity and sustainability. Political, religious and

   

   Sustainable Living: Environment I

   UCLA / Environmental Studies
   Scott Sherman
   

   The Education for Sustainable Living Program (ESLP), ESLP is a student designed, student developed, and student facilitated program offered through the Institute of the Environment. The Speaker Series brings guest speakers from UCLA and across the country to speak on specialized subjects including food systems, green business, organic gardens, sustainable living, the green economy,