Business strategy and business sustainability are incongruent. Business strategy, as it is currently conceptualized, promotes profit maximizing through growth. Yet, global society is reaching its limits to growth. This single-minded pursuit of quarterly earnings is contributing to accelerating product development cycles and proliferation of products throughout the world. Business sustainability, by contrast, acknowledges limits to growth. It offers new ways to create v...

Industrialization of agriculture has taken a large toll on small, family farms. In the last century, the number of farms fell nearly 65 percent, and the farm labor force dropped from 41 to 1.9 percent. Today, just one in 10 small farms produces enough income to support a family. But small farms play a significant role in the economic, cultural and environmental health of a community. For rural Whidbey Island in Washington State’s Puget Sound, fourth generation family...

Building a safe, green school bus is easy. All it takes is NASCAR’s top winning owner, a bus manufacturer willing to break from convention, a multi-million dollar investment by thousands of small businesses, school districts looking to do more with tight budgets and, of course, an affordable alternative fuel that reduces tailpipe emissions. As the world’s third most popular vehicle fuel, propane autogas is continuing to prove – from both a financial and environme...