Forbes’ Inspiring Social Entrepreneur Ideas
This Forbes website list of inspiring social entrepreneur ideas highlights Amy's proposal for accelerated depreciation for green infrastructure. See more of her thoughts on the issue here. From the Forbes list: #3. Corporations harm the
Climate change survival: companies need courage… and new metrics
First published in the Guardian on April 24th, 2014. Today, tremendous work is being done to develop the metrics of natural capital. All kinds of very smart people and organizations are making the "business case" for
A simple accounting change can make green infrastructure more attractive
First published in the Guardian, April 8th 2014 Many businesses struggle with the question of how to invest in large fixed assets. These are painstaking decisions, because they always demand long-term thinking and guessing about
Feelings, not facts: negotiating for a new business paradigm
First published in the Huffington Post, March 6th, 2014 When I first started working with corporations on transformative green technologies, I would discuss my excitement to other environmentalists, and they would retort: "But they're only
On steroids and quarterly reports: short-term fixes can screw up the system
First published in the Guardian, February 17th, 2014 Something – maybe a bat, although nobody was certain – recently bit my good friend Arnie. What happened next is an allegory for how short-term fixes can
Human error: how business can learn from past mistakes
First published in the Guardian on February 7th, 2014 There are at least two areas where I agree with most major religions. First, we must treat one another with compassion and kindness – the golden
The sharks and the bees: what nature’s patterns teach us about sourcing
First posted in the Guardian, January 22, 2014 "Although human subtlety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, or more
Mutually Assured Survival
By Amy Larkin and Siddhartha Velandy This post was originally published on the Huffington Post on January 10th, 2014 and co-authored by Siddhartha Velandy, a Major in United States Marine Corps Reserve and author of
Social impact: the Guardian’s top 5 stories of 2013
Amy's column "How West's throwaway culture destroys basic freedoms in China" was listed as one of the Top 5 social impact stories of 2013 by the Guardian Sustainable Business. See all of Amy's contributions to the Guardian
Embrace the bad stuff: turning crisis into opportunity
First published in the Guardian, December 19, 2013. My years of work as a radical environmentalist in concert with multinational business has inspired me to believe that we can change our mindset from "Why don't