Prototyping Our Future: Social Labs For A Sustainable, Regenerative & Thriving future is a guidebook that explores how Social Labs can be designed in order to catalyze systemic innovation while contributing to socio-ecological sustainability, and providing forums for collaboration, collective impact, capacity building, and the emergence of systemic solutions to complex challenges.

Speaks to modern managers in all functions as well as to IT professionals. Implementing an effective IT sustainability strategy is essential for organizations pursuing sustainability as a means of business advantage and this book shows how to do it. The critical first step is getting clear about the ends of the IT sustainability program -- the mission must be to further the company ' s sustain- ability objectives and strategic intents should include:...

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Describes how wind can be used as a source of power, how it affects the environment, and what the significance of wind power may be in the future.