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May 21, 2013
Trucost Report: Nail in the Coffin for Sustainable Capitalism?
Trucost Report
Last month, the environmental consultancy firm Trucost published a report entitled “Natural Capital at Risk: The Top 100 Externalities of Business,” calling into question the validity of sustainable capitalism as a new paradigm.[read more]
May 25, 2013
Smart Power Opens Minds, Opens Markets
smart power
When companies combine their hard and soft power in "smart power" partnerships with government agencies and non-governmental organizations, everyone benefits.[read more]
May 21, 2013
Rise of Islamic Politics: Another Mode of Global Capitalism?
Islam as capitalism?
One can argue that much of what made Protestantism the ideological midwife of modern capitalism can now be applied to many contemporary streams of political Islam.[read more]
We Love Sustainability Reports!
sustainability reports
The act of training groups of passionate people just brings home to me that all reports are good, all reports are an attempt to do better, all reports are worth the words they contain.[read more]
Benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility
CSR and profits
No longer is the term ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ a novel idea amongst businesses. A 2011 sustainability study by MIT showed that sustainability, in the US at least, now plays a permanent part in 70% of corporate agendas.[read more]
Communication: Crucial to a Conservation-Minded Society
communication
Communication between organisations and stakeholders on environmental and other issues is important because stakeholders are individuals, groups or organisations that affect and/or are affected by it.[read more]
3 Leadership Lessons We Can Learn from Gen Y
gen y leadership
Those of us who grew up in corporate-land believing work occurs 8-5 need to learn to rethink how, where and when work gets done. Millennials get this. It’s time the rest of us do, too.[read more]
Are Fair Trade Products Worth It?
fair trade
In times of economic difficulty, when money is tighter than usual, we always look for a good deal. But how do we balance getting a good deal with the idea of fair trade? Are fair trade products worth it?[read more]
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“CindyTotally agree that a focus on forward looking targets and reporting against progress in following years is an improvement that's needed in sustainability reporting. I hope that integrated reporting can support this. It's great to see leaders like SAP showing the way, especially as many of the organisations I've worked with have struggled most around the data ...”
“Well done and fully support and encourage your calling out for leaders to look beyond themselves, their ego's, status and all that has caused them to be self-serving leaders. To get themselves out of the way so as to see their own truth and reality, their true potential and especially the potential of all those 'under' them.I have a similar 'heart-longing' as yours as can be seen by what I have ...”