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headlines Going Green Across the Globe BUSINESS SCHOOLS AROUND the world are incorpo- rating sustainability into their new buildings or their rede- signed facilities. Here are a few recent examples: n Essex University in the U.K. has secured approval to build a new 5,550-square-meter (about 18,000 square feet) research and training building on its Col- chester Campus—and one of its distinguishing features will be a winter garden. The goal is for the garden to support passive heating and ventilation of the new building and provide a buffer zone between the build- ing and its surroundings. Management Education for a Sustainable World SHOULD MANAGEMENT EDUCATION be redesigned to promote sustainability? Educators from a group of busi- ness schools participating in a summer United Nations conference think so. They recently unveiled their vision for management education that focuses on creating busi- nesses that are judged by how they improve the world, not simply by how well they operate. The management educators were participating in the RIO+20 United Nations Conference on Sustain- able Development held in Rio de Janeiro in June. The World Business School Council of Sustainable Business, the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative, and the Principles of Responsible Management Education collaborated to propose the 50+20 Agenda. This ini- tiative calls for educating globally responsible leaders, enabling business organizations to serve the common good, and engaging in the transformation of business and the economy. Implementing these goals calls for retraining faculty in sustainability approaches, creating new educational prototypes, rethinking research goals, and devising new incentives. The schools that co-authored the 50+20 Agenda are Business School Lausanne and University of St. Gallen, both of Switzerland; ESSEC Business School and ICN Business School Nancy-Metz, both of France; Queensland University of Technology and Swinburne University of Technology, both of Australia; CENTRUM Católica in Peru; Concordia University in Canada; 14 September/October 2012 BizEd The green roof at the University of Louisville's College of Business Copenhagen Business School in Denmark; ESADE in Spain; Leuphana Universität Lüneburg in Germany; Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management in India; University of Pretoria in South Africa; and Vienna Uni- versity of Economics and Business in Austria. The two noneducational co-authors are Deloitte Touche Tohm- atsu Limited of the U.K. and Zermatt Summit of Switzerland. More information about the 50+20 Agenda can be found in the short film "Management Education for the World," available at www.50plus20.org or twitter. com/50plus20.