Cultural Sustainability
by: danah boyd
Since Davos, I've been thinking about cultural sustainability. This isn't a term that I heard there, but one that I wish that I had.
Since Davos, I've been thinking about cultural sustainability. This isn't a term that I heard there, but one that I wish that I had.
At Cisco France's request I wrote this brief article (see per below) on the role that innovation can play in customer relationships. This article will be published shortly in the client publication, which is entitled Ciscomag. In order to write this article, I used the material developed for a previous interview carried out in September 2007 for NextTimes, which is the Orange equivalent of Ciscomag for Orange Business Services (
While every day seems to bring a whole bunch of predictions and thoughts for this new year (and the decade to come!), I have selected this excellent article from The McKinsey Quarterly entitled "
Now that you’re a 
TechCrunch published a great guest post by 
If you had asked me even a week ago whether Japan or the United States was further along in the greening of mainstream business, I'd likely have answered Japan. That country is, after all, the birthplace of the Prius and other eco-efficient vehicles and advanced technologies. 
The notion of a corporate chief information officer is fairly new -- less than thirty years old -- but the CIO's role has grown in lockstep with the strategic importance of information and knowledge management inside companies. Their ability to think strategically about information technology can help a company innovate, grow markets, streamline operations, cut costs, and generally improve competitiveness.
David Bornstein is the author of 
He recently updated this book, and it’s now available for the first time in paperback. No less than Nelson Mandela said the book is “wonderfully hopeful and enlightening.” David is also the author of 
Green marketing is back, and while some may cavil that it never went away, the quality and quantity of marketing messages has shifted markedly in recent months. By all indications, this time it's no longer a half-hearted, fringe activity.
I work in the surreal world of Silicon Valley where venture capitalists fund companies based on PowerPoint pitches and executive summaries. My friend Tim Berry rightfully pointed that business plans still serve an important role in "the rest of the world."
To paraphrase Kermit: It isn't easy being red, white, and blue.
If you've been tracking the green marketplace lately, there's a good chance your head is spinning. It's not just the 
Ecosystems must be viewed as huge capital assets, affected by nearly all development and investment decisions, according to a report released this week.
The media calls and e-mails have been arriving fast and furious -- a dozen or more each week, even now that Earth Day is over. CNN, the New York Times, Business Week, Advertising Age, "Good Morning America," the Sundance Channel, Reuters, the Discovery Channel, Marketplace radio, and a slew of local papers. And a surprising number seem to have some variation of the same two questions:
One of the things you're likely to see at your workplace in the next few days is some focus on the environment. It's coming up on Earth Day, of course, the time of year when even hardnosed CEOs' thoughts turn green, at least for the moment.
