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Development of SocialEntrepreneurs in US CouldAdd to Bottom Line of Nation
The current trend of corporate sustainability initiatives, while potentially ‘greening’the operations of those companies, may not be the most effective method of advancingenvironmental sustainability across the US. While those sustainability programs canoffer a feel-good effect for company communications efforts, they may not be doingmuch for the overall picture, except for reducing the company’s costs and operationalfootprint, or funding charitable endeavors.
That’s the stance from the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (CRE), which arguesthat more efficient environmental enhancement programs can come about through thedevelopment of more social entrepreneurs in the US.
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CRE believes that these social entrepreneurs, who use proven private sectortechniques to solve environmental and social issues, ought to be funded and supportedat the same levels that they are in many other countries, thereby bringing about lasting,measurable, positive change to problems facing the US.
According to Jim Tozzi, a member of the Board of Advisors at CRE,
“Environmental/social entrepreneurs are common outsidethe US; their existence in the US is limited to academicreviews.
I want to encourage our best minds to become socialentrepreneurs and be satisfied with rewards outside offinancial rewards mainly through personal recognition inthe media and their peers.
I would like private sector firms to use some the funds theyspend on Corporate Responsibility/Sustainability to developsocial/environmental entrepreneurs.
The development of social entrepreneurs could add to thebottom line of the nation, its citizens and its corporations.” –Jim Tozzi
In a recent article in The Environmental Forum, Tozzi and Bruce Levinson (senior vicepresident of CRE), lay out several noteworthy contributions from environmental, policy,and social entrepreneurs in areas where “financial status is not a proxy for success.”
“Social, policy, and environmental entrepreneurs haveenterprise and initiative, taking an improved planet as theirmain compensation. Entrepreneurs have succeeded becausethey have developed techniques that move the ball forwardwith no personal reward.”
Read the entire piece from Tozzi and Levinson, Accomplishment Beyond Dollars(PDF), for a review of the contributions of five policy, environmental, and socialentrepreneurs.
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Derek Markham lives in southwestern New Mexico and digs bicycles,simple living, organic gardening, sustainable lifestyle design, slacklining,bouldering, and permaculture. He loves good food, with fresh roastedchiles at the top of his list of favorites. Catch up with Derek on Twitter ,RebelMouse , Google+ , or at his natural parenting site, Natural Papa !
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