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		<title>Media shines spotlight on benefit corporations</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkshiftcom.com/blog/2012/01/12/media-shines-spotlight-on-benefit-corporations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn McMaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All kinds of media covered the California Benefit Corporation Inauguration Day event. We gave you our take on being one of the first benefit corporations in the state; here&#8217;s a sampling of what others had to say: The Start of the Revolution, a great photo essay by Debra Baida and Sven Eberlein on the Daily KOS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinkshift Joins Patagonia and Other Sustainability Leaders in Becoming California&#8217;s First Benefit Corporations</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkshiftcom.com/blog/2012/01/03/thinkshift-joins-patagonia-and-other-sustainability-leaders-in-becoming-californias-first-benefit-corporations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I hope that five years from now, ten years from now, we&#8217;ll look back and say this was the start of the revolution. The existing paradigm isn&#8217;t working anymore—this is the future.&#8221; Those were Patagonia founder and CEO Yvon Chouinard&#8217;s closing words as he led a parade of companies up the steps of the Secretary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Gets Benefit Corporations</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkshiftcom.com/blog/2011/10/11/california-gets-benefit-corporations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday marked a real milestone for sustainable business: California Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 361, making benefit corporations a legal form in the nation’s largest economy. Rather than repeating my previous post, I’ll give the bill’s author, Assemblymember Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), the floor. Under AB 361, he noted in announcing the signing, “businesses can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benefit Corporation Bill Goes to Governor</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkshiftcom.com/blog/2011/08/30/benefit-corporation-bill-goes-to-governor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinkshiftcom.com/blog/2011/08/30/benefit-corporation-bill-goes-to-governor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California benefit corporation bill, AB 361, has passed through both houses of the state Legislature and is now on Governor Jerry Brown&#8217;s desk. He has 12 days to sign or veto it. As I said in my previous post on this groundbreaking bill, AB 361 is important because as sustainable businesses grow, they often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Alliance Supports AB 32 Global Warming Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkshiftcom.com/blog/2010/03/30/business-alliance-supports-ab-32-global-warming-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinkshiftcom.com/blog/2010/03/30/business-alliance-supports-ab-32-global-warming-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn McMaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinkshift has added its name to the California Business Alliance for a Green Economy, joining more  than 750 businesses, small and large, that have signed on with the organization. (As has our client, New Resource Bank.) It&#8217;s a nonprofit, &#8220;created to amplify the business voice in support of policies to help move us toward cleaner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of Green Business: A Communications Wake-Up Call</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkshiftcom.com/blog/2009/02/04/state-of-green-business-a-communications-wake-up-call/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinkshiftcom.com/blog/2009/02/04/state-of-green-business-a-communications-wake-up-call/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn McMaster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GreenBiz.com released its second annual State of Green Business report Feb. 2, heralding the report’s release with a daylong forum that drew nearly 500 people from 20 states to San Francisco. One report conclusion highlights a trend we’ve followed for over a year: green marketing is failing to communicate. While green is going mainstream, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Essential Message: Everything Is Related</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkshiftcom.com/blog/2009/01/24/the-essential-message-everything-is-related/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinkshiftcom.com/blog/2009/01/24/the-essential-message-everything-is-related/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[behavior change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People in the trenches of remaking the way we live along more sustainable lines know that everything—transportation, community planning, energy sources, buildings—is related. (Thanks to Thinkshift client Joe Stagner, director of Sustainability and Energy Management at Stanford, for drumming this into my head.) People who make policy have lagged behind in recognizing (and more importantly, [...]]]></description>
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