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"I enjoy this newsletter so much, Darcy. I just wanted to say thank you. I read it and it gives me a lift -- like a validation that yes, it's about PEOPLE; business IS people. But more than that, it provides such valuable information. And from a marketing standpoint, you guys remain at the top of my list when the question is "Who ya gonna call?"
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—Alicia Duncan, Barr Engineering

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Darcy is also the editor/writer for the
International Society of Sustainability Professionals journal.
ISSP journal articles

 

Articles about Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility
(In chronological order. Look for *NEW* to find the most recent issue at the bottom of this block.)

 
1996-1999

Green is Also the Color of Money

 The Natural Step: The Next Best Thing to a Crystal Ball
 The Value of Values 
 For Whom the Team Toils
 Organizational Values
 Getting Credit for Your Good Deeds
Capitalizing on Goodness (An annual report for all your stakeholders)


 2000-2005

Environmental Strategies

 Implementing Sustainability (or anything else, for that matter)
 How to Develop a Business Case
 Communing with Devil Fish: Reflections on the forgiveness of whales
Greening Your Purchases and your Wallet
 Celebrate Sustainably: Why Food Matters
 Vanishing Wisdom: What Native Peoples Can Teach Us about a Sustainable Quality of Life
Sustainability & OD: A Critical Marriage
 Growing into Sustainability: From Baby Steps to High Performance
 Reflections on Globalization: A Postcard from Myanmar
 Curitiba, Constraints and Creativity: Lessons from the Developing World
Making a Place for Nature at the Table: The Urban-Rural Compact
There Are No More Wild Animals and other Insights from South Africa
Small Businesses with Big Impacts
Secret Potion: Drugs in our Waterways


2006-2010

Plan B for Civilization

Are We Man Enough to Evolve?
Arctic Solstice
Cynicism and Sustainability
Sustainability Assessments: When they are useful, what to ask for
Creating an Effective Plan for your Sustainability Efforts
Zero Waste and the Future of the Waste Management Industry
Paper Purchasing: Why Recycled Isn't Good Enough Anymore
Sustainability: Why we need a professional association
Social Entrepreneurship: Harnessing Commerce for Good
Is the Media Stepping Up to their Role in Solving the World's Problems?
Sustainability 2.0--Life after the Tipping Point
Is America Finally Ready to Change?
Upside of a Down Economy: Etching a silver lining around the black clouds

Sustainability Planning—Step by Step

Recovering Our Communities: Making Time the New Currency

What's getting in our way? Three questions for a sustainable future
Sustainability Buzzwords: Making sense of all the terms (ISSP; Reprinted by Qatar Today, April 2010)
Homo Economicus Interruptus: New Principles for a sustainable economy (ISSP)

Responsible Party

Sustainability Circus: Getting all the major sustainability frameworks/indicators under one tent (ISSP)

Cities as Solutions: Lessons in Sustainability from Denmark and Sweden (ISSP)

Creating Community: Neighborliness as a Sustainability Strategy

*NEW* Community-Based Economic Development

 Articles about Teams, Empowerment,
& Work Redesign

Articles about Gen'l Business Trends
& Management Practices

 What Are People Doing Around Peer Review
Reinventing Management/ Helping Managers Change
 Design Team as Tour Guide
Working Smarter, Not Harder
 Four Ways to Coach Employees
Are You Really Ready for the 21st Century?
 Integrating Education into a Team Implementation
 Making the Most of Measures (research study)
 Teams and Technology
 Natural Work 1: What nature can teach us about
managing organizations
 Accountability Hot Potato 
 Natural Work 2: What evolutionary psychology can teach us about managing
 Obstacles to Implementing Self-Directed Teams
 Building Trust
  Teams In Trouble
  A Corporate Carol
(vision for the next decade)
 When to Empower
 Millennium 2:
So it's here. Now what?
 Talking About Performance
Meaning, Intention and Commitment at Work
 Dispelling Myths about Teams: Lessons from 15 years in the field
Program Fatigue: Why people dread new corporate initiatives and what to do about it.
 Building Consensus
Willingness to Trust: The Precursor to Trusting Relationships
If You're Not for Zero Waste, How Much Waste Are You For?
Breaking Down the Last Silos: The Magic of Multi-stakeholder Processes
 Managing to Consensus: Moving multi-stakeholder groups to agreement

Other published works and credits

Darcy is the editor/writer for the International Society of Sustainability Professionals journal. Please see a complete listing under Articles & Reports or go directly to the ISSP Journal Archives.

 

(Other published articles—Most recent at the top)

"How to Hurdle the Barriers to a Sustainable Future" GreenBiz. May 26, 2009

"It ain't easy being green" Event Marketer Magazine, May 2009. (SCORE featured)

"Greening of Spas" LOHAS Journal, Spring 2009 (Spa sector assessment in SCORE is referenced)

"Core Compentencies for Sustainability Professionals" Sustainability: The Journal of Record
Volume: 1, Number: 4 Aug 2008

Naturally Successful: Entrepreneurship that redefines the bottom line. (2008) produced by Arnold Creek Productions (video)

"Making Sustainability Every Person's Job" Kyoto Planet, March, 2008. www.awarenesintoaction.com.

"Is Mainstream Media Finally Stepping ot to its Role in the Climate Fight?" Climate Biz, Jan. 16, 2008. Click here to read.

“Creating an Effective Plan for your Sustainability Efforts”, GreenBiz, 2006

 “Cynicism and Sustainability, GreenBiz, 2006

 “Sustainability: Enlarging Quality’s Mission”, Quality Progress, Feb, 2002, p 43.

“Talking About Performance”, Columbia-Willamette Compensation Group Newsletter, Winter 2002, p.1 .

“Help Your Career and the Environment” Interview of Darcy and Marsha about sustainability by Greg Hutchins, Quality Progress, Jan. 2000 p116.

"How Con-way Reviews Teams"Fast Company, August 1998. Read article.

"Corporate America now being held socially responsible" Vancouver Business Journal, June 8, 1998

"Virtual Teams: Managing Teams of the Mind" Critical Linkages Newsletter, February, 1998.

"The Accountability Hot Potato."  Vancouver Business Journal, December, 1997.

"Reengineering Work: How to do it better, faster, cheaper" Worklife Magazine, Mainstream Online, 1997.

"What Are People Doing Around Peer Review" Journal for Quality and Participation December, 1996.

"Growing Smart" The Columbian, Aug. 4, 1996  B9, B11.

"Being Green Isn't So Hard" Journal for Quality and Participation September, 1996.

"Are You Parents to or Partners with Your Employees" Journal for Quality and Participation Dec., 1994.

"Your Community Wants You!"  Journal for Quality and Participation, September 1994.

"Think of Your Design Team as the Lead Raft"  Journal for Quality and Participation Aug., 1994.

"What Will We Find in an Intrapreneur's Rabbit Hole?"  Journal for Quality and Participation Dec. 1993.

"Dorothy Discovers Three Levels of Empowerment."  Journal for Quality and Participation.

"Overcoming the Top Ten Self-Directed Team Stoppers."  Journal for Quality and Participation, December, 1992.

*"Measuring Team Progress."  Journal for Quality and Participation, September, 1992.

"Making Self-Training Systems Work:  Six Strategies for successful Implementation."  Performance and Instruction, August, 1992.

"A Convert's Primer to Socio-Tech."  Journal for Quality and Participation, June 1992.

"The Engine of Empowerment."  Journal for Quality and Participation, March, 1992.

"Self-Directed Teams and Performance Technology: A Good Marriage."  Performance and Instruction, September, 1991.

"Turning up the Heat: encouraging manager to empower employees."  Journal for Quality and Participation, July/August, 1995.

"Performance Management and Teams: A Better Way." Journal for Quality and Participation, September, 1990.

"Building Instructional Games."  Training Magazine, March, 1988.

Quotations:

Some of the publications in which we are quoted or had material excerpted:

 

Articles written for the International Society of Sustainability Professionals

Homo Economicus Interruptus: New Principles for a sustainable economy Download

Sustainability Buzzwords: Making sense of all the terms (Darcy Hitchcock) Download.

Social Indicators: The Real Health of the States(Marque-Luisa Miringoff, Institute for Innovation in Social Policy) Download.

Detoxifying the Personal Care Products Industry (Mark Wuttke, Wuttke Group) Download. (1.2 MB)

Is Sustainable Development Still a Relevant Business Issue in this Economic Crisis? (Lynette Thorstensen, World Business Council on Sustainable Development) Download. (600kb)

Team Oregon: Paving the way to eco-cities (Team Oregon) Download (4 MB)

Participatory Budgeting (Jez Hall, Participatory Budgeting UK)  Download read-on-screen version. (9.7MB)

Stakeholder Engagement (Stockholm Environment Institute) Screen-friendly (2.7 MB)

Climate change: What we have to do NOW (Eban Goodstein, Focus the Nation) Download

Sustainable Development (Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism Solutions) Download

Moving the World toward Sustainability (Karl-Henrik Robert, The Natural Step) Download

Genuine Wealth Assessment (Mark Anielski) Download

Cool Trends: What Cities are Doing NOW to Reduce Greenhouse Gases (Special report) Download-4.66MB

Product Stewardship in the Real World (Jeff Omelchuck and Wayne Rifer, Green Electronics Council/EPEAT) Download

Green Jobs Trends (Michael Renner of WorldWatch) Download

Beyond LEED: The Living Building Challenge (Jason McLennon) Download

 

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