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• Google Getting Its Conscious Capitalism On

  Q&A with Google energy czar Bill Weihl in the NY Times, talking about Google.org’s goal of making alternative energy sources cheaper than coal.
  This passage highlights the combination of deeper purpose and profit motive (and explains the necessary organizational setup to do it effectively):
  The reason Google.org is not just a foundation is that lots of people [...]

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  Posted on Jan 07.10 to Conscious Capitalism   

• More Mackey

  John Mackey’s all over the place lately. This time he’s interviewed in the latest issue of Reason magazine. Reason is obviously a friendlier outlet than the habitually from-all-possible-perspectives New Yorker (on which I commented previously); no real tough questions or challenges here. But it’s an overview of what Mackey’s about that’s probably closer to what [...]

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  Posted on Jan 05.10 to Conscious Capitalism, Economics, Libertarian   

• John Mackey in the New Yorker

  Big piece on John Mackey in this week’s New Yorker. (Coincidentally, Mackey also figured heavily in the last episode of Practically Ideal on conscious capitalism.)
  Some parts made even me (as a professed Mackey fan) think. For example:
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  Posted on Jan 01.10 to Conscious Capitalism