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May 17

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PRIORITIES, PRIORITIES , PRIORITIES – Does your Sustainability Strategy Do More Than Just Include the Words Social and Economic

Pushed by horrific tragedies such as the deaths of over 1,100 people in a Bangladeshi textile industry, the personal values market, or the marketplace of consumer ideas and concerns, is constantly expressing greater demand for companies to address social and economic – and not just environmental — sustainability issues.

This is good news for sustainability but challenging for sustainability managers many of whom already feel they are fighting too many fires on the sustainability front as it is.

It’s about Priorities
On the wall by my desk I have a set of themes printed on big bits of paper, Read more

May 2

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Consumers as Stakeholders in the Sustainable Century

A central and defining question in the Sustainable Century is how consumers as “stakeholders” can be engaged in a way that delivers the richness of our sustainability desires while shutting out blackguard marketers whose disinterest in the human condition threatens the hopes and dreams of a sustainable world.

Internet stakeholder consumer sustainability engagement is by and large a misnomer, rendered daily more meaningless, Read more

Feb 19

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The New S & P – What a New Pope Can do for Sustainability

In one of my earliest blogs I lied and now I am confessing.

I lied when I wrote anything can be measured…. and that’s why the next Pope needs to declare all Catholics, indeed all Christians, accept sustainability as a central and inalienable spiritual tenant.

More than Stewards
Pretty much everyone knows all major religions, in some way or another and to various degrees, support the notion of sustainability.  But while one could argue Read more

Jan 31

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Following in the Footsteps of Bhutan and the End of Advertising

Have you ever been to Bhutan?  It’s a beautiful and disconcerting place.

Beautiful for the mountains, the rivers, the history, the people: disconcerting because it is a deeply tranquil place.

One kind of expects the home of the Gross Domestic Happiness Index to be, well, a happier place. For a hyper-connected, Westerner exposed to constant commercial assaults on my psychic apparatus (http://bit.ly/ei6rAG), the country made me uneasy at first for some reason I couldn’t initially put my finger on.

There are no shortage of possible reasons Read more

Sep 20

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End Supply Chain Abuse: Make GRI and Sustainability Labels the Law

I struggled today as I put on my jeans. All I could think of was the 300 workers who died in a Karachi textile factory two weeks ago.

Separated by distance and culture, sometimes it’s hard to feel for the nameless poor that make our clothes, our electronics, our food. But this morning, I could not help but imagine their names, their hopes, how they lived, the faces of their children and of their families.

Their deaths were as tragic as they were avoidable. The owners of the factory have fled in shame and fear, but left behind over $5 million in bank accounts. It makes me cry to think of what small portion of this Read more

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