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Social capital refers to "connections among individuals—social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise with them"; see Putnam (2000, 19). It is also the necessary context for developing human capital—skills and knowledge embedded in people; see Coleman (1988).
Why Is Everyone So Short-Tempered? 2000.
Browne 2000a, available from BP, London.
Browne 2000b.
See http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid175.asp for Rocky Mountain Institute publications about the Hypercar.
Gunn 1999.
The SoL (Society for Organizational Learning) Sustainability Consortium was established by BP and Interface and now includes established SoL members Royal Dutch/Shell, Ford, Xerox, Harley-Davidson, Detroit-Edison, Visteon, and the World Bank, along with new members Nike and Northeast Utilities. The group's current projects—on product development, innovation across complex supply networks, new energy sources, and leadership and cultural change—are described at http://www.SoLonline.org and are being studied through a National Science Foundation grant.
Berry 1990, 123.
Ibid, 131–132.
Boorstin 1985, 108–109.
See Hawken, Lovins, and Lovins (1999), 14, Ayers (1989), Lovins, Lovins, and Hawken (1999).
These three strategies, in concert with ideas below, relate closely to the four strategies of "natural capitalism", three of the four "system conditions" of "the natural step" described in Holmberg and Robert 2000 and McDonough 1992. (The last publication is available through McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, Charlottesville, Va., by sending a request to info@mbdc.com, or can be downloaded from the World Wide Web at http://www.mcdonough.com/principles.pdf).
Kelly 1999, 2, 5, 31.
Vandermerwe 2000, 28.
Toffler 1980.
Kelly 1999, 121–122.
Prahalad and Ramaswamy 2000, xiv.
Levine et al. 2000.
Kelly 1999, 28.
Wysocki 2000.
Drucker and Senge forthcoming.
Webber 1993.
Bradsher 2000.
Yates 2000.
Quinn 1997, 200–201.