Bad Labor Conditions Aren't Just A Problem For Apple--We All Have A Stake The recent scrutiny of Apple's labor practices in China highlight the need to improve the lives of the millions of workers making the products that drive our global economy. While it’s tempting to point to particular companies as the core of the problem, the reality is that consumers, governments, and businesses all have changes to make.
Updated Fri Feb 24, 2012
Pessimism Rules the Day--And Why We Can’t Afford It In the United States, the follies over the debt ceiling have now become so all encompassing that the government in Washington seemingly is unable to focus on anything else.
Updated Thu Jul 14, 2011
How Sustainability Will Shape Business in 2011 As we go into 2011, the market meltdowns of 2008 are receding from view. This means that structural changes in the world are again capturing the world's attention. These longer-term developments are pointing to an even greater focus on sustainability as one of the defining characteristics of business success.
Updated Fri Jan 21, 2011
Restoring Trust through Sustainable Excellence The last two years have been a roller coaster for the economy, with people, communities, and companies roiled by fundamental shifts. Simply put, the combination of innovation, globalization, and natural resource limits present two distinctly different futures: one that delivers dignified lives to more of the world’s people than ever before, the other hits a brick wall brought on by a consumption-based model that the planet cannot sustain.
Posted Tue Oct 12, 2010
‘Creationism’ Comes to WEF? Innovation Dominates the Discussion in Tianjin At last week’s “Summer Davos,” the annual World Economic Forum meeting in China, talk about innovation was everywhere. Not surprisingly, the sense of the meeting was that waiting for governments to set consistent rules and incentives for a low-carbon economy is a fool’s game.
Posted Fri Sep 24, 2010
Should Businesses Publish Integrated Reports Which Include Sustainability? As the 2010 reporting season winds down, and the debate over integrated reporting heats up, it is a useful time to take stock of where reporting is today, and where it may be headed.
Posted Mon Jul 26, 2010
Why Companies are in the Mobilization Business
Writing from the United States, where the government seems to escape dysfunction only when blizzards shut its doors, it is tempting to look to business or NGOs for solutions to economic difficulties.And in fact, many companies are aiming to build public and market support for sustainable products and services through initiatives that look a bit like political campaigns.In some cases, that’s exactly what they are.
Posted Wed Mar 3, 2010
Davos: Bottom Up Solutions From the Top of the Mountain It’s nearly impossible to discern the true “mood of Davos” because there are simply too many micro-communities amid the 2500 participants. But for those of us focused on sustainability, there were many reasons for optimism.
Posted Wed Feb 3, 2010
Sustainability Can Drive Innovation, but Only Through Disruption The link between sustainability and innovation is steadily replacing old thinking that saw corporate responsibility mainly as a way to keep a company's reputation out of trouble.
Posted Fri Jan 8, 2010
How Sustainability Survived the Great Recession Around this time last year, the deathwatch for sustainability was on full alert. Many wondered whether the "green bubble" would burst the same way the tech bubble and the housing bubble did. Would sustainability follow Lehman Brothers into the pages of history, a relic of the good times?
Posted Fri Jan 8, 2010
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