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If you're looking for practices to accelerate the adoption of sustainable ideas, then invest in the book "The Innovator's Way" by Peter Denning and Robert Dunham. It puts a clear focus on some individual practices in the areas observation, conversation and reflection that contribute to successful innovation. 

They define the  main work of invention as:

• Sensing: Bringing forth a new possibility that woulod bring…

Isn't it fascinating just how much happens when entrepreneurs get involved with sustainability? If you have a moment, read the Grollo information about the new Pixel building and see just how many opportunities they've created besides building the greenest building they possibly can. Their fact sheet lists their smart technology - and it also lists the new licenses and patents for new products and services.

So add this case study to your kit bag of good news stories:…

I'm looking for ways to describe a regenerative economy. What's it going to look like to live in a world where business is good for the environment - consuming greenhouse gases, increasing natural habitat. What else will be different? How do we turn the sustainability conversation from "I don't want more GHG produced" into the reverse image? What is the reverse image anyway?

These are the things that occur to me:

• New buildings will generate their own power, store…

Three manufacturing companies in regional Victoria's Castlelmain are planning to make a 30% cut to their emissions. But they're not waiting for 2020 - their goal is 2010. And one of them is planning to double production in their plant at the same time.

In consultation with the CSIRO, they're following Woking's example by using a smart local solution to provide heat, power and cooling from one generation plant.

The Borough of Woking in the UK got completely off…