Tag Archives: sustainability
How Collaboration Can Save The Planet – And Your Business
Posted on 12. Feb, 2009 by Ramla Akhtar.
What’s our Problem?
By the time this article is being written, it is clear: those who warned against the unsustainability of greed (getting more than one deserves) and fear (contributing less than one’s potential) are vindicated. No matter what the consultants advocate, the truth is that the old way of working is over. Now that we [...]
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Beyond Accounting Assessing The Impact of Sustainability Reporting on Tomorrow’s Business
Posted on 11. Feb, 2009 by Tony Manwaring and Richard Spencer.
Business has an extraordinary capacity to deliver
practical solutions. Tomorrow’s Global Company: Challenges and Choices argues that future commercial success must go hand in hand with tackling our shared challenges, such as environmental degradation, poverty and abuse of human rights.
Tony Manwaring
Chief Executive, Tomorrow’s Company
We manage what we measure (and report) – it’s a truism, [...]
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CSR now needed more than ever before
Posted on 30. Dec, 2008 by Michael Hopkins.
Turbulent times: Financial storms in the US and UK will have implications for all of us. Main Street and Wall Street cannot be separated. If the captains of those financial companies, now in crisis or bankrupted, had acted more responsibly with a proper Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy, then their vessels would not have sunk [...]
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My Choice: a Model for a Sustainable Future
Posted on 28. Dec, 2008 by Kurt Archer.
My Choice! is a project that aims to raise awareness among the youth about Sustainability. We offer a holistic understanding of sustainability taught through a simple model known as Society, Economy and Environment.
The Environment is impacted by our human footprint; this footprint is the result of diverse community interactions (economy, leisure, family) in any given [...]
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CSR and Sustainable Development in Africa: Water of Life
Posted on 21. Oct, 2008 by Camila Flat.
According to the traditional African philosophy of Ubuntu, we discover and affirm our own humanity through our interactions with others. This concept of ‘a person is a person through other persons’ provides an insight into how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is applied in Africa and how businesses can stimulate sustainable development.
African companies see themselves as [...]
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Towards ‘a truly water-sustainable business on a global scale Coca Cola
Posted on 21. Oct, 2008 by Rutaba Ahmed.
According to the International Water Management Institute (IWMI’s) Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, one-third of the world population faces some form of water scarcity. A recent JP Morgan Report states that by 2025, this is expected to rise to two-thirds, due to climate change and increasing urbanization and population growth. The Intergovernmental Panel [...]
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Pani Ghar – Case Study of a Social Enterprise
Posted on 21. Oct, 2008 by Ali Salman.
A pseudonym ‘Paniwala’ (PW) has been used to disguise the identity of the leading entrepreneur behind ‘Pani Ghar’, a social enterprise established two years ago to provide safe drinking water at affordable prices. The social enterprise as a company was wounded up while the pilot outlet still functions in Lahore.
Mr. Paniwala (PW) looks back to [...]
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Rainwater Harvesting
Posted on 21. Oct, 2008 by Zaheer Hussain Gardezi.
Sustainable Water Supply Solution in Pakistan’s Mountainous Areas?
The areas affected by the 2005 earthquake comprise some of the most idyllic places in Pakistan. However, life in these areas is becoming increasingly difficult, particularly in recent years due to the increasing scarcity of water. This has forced several people to even abandon their ancestral villages – [...]
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Sustenance of Enterprise
Posted on 10. Oct, 2008 by Fariha Rashed.
“In the world of today, managers and leaders of organizations, in both the private sector and civil society, are being challenged as never before to find ways to play a pro-active role in addressing the concerns of sustainable development”. They are often overwhelmed by a shower of conflicting messages from the media, shareholders, customers, employees, [...]
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The Sustainable Value Approach
Posted on 18. Jul, 2008 by Figge, Hahn, Liesen.
Historically, companies existed to produce goods and services in a profitable way. Nowadays, companies additionally need to answer the requests to contribute to sustainable development and reduce the burdens they impose on their stakeholders. Both of these views are merged in a recently developed management approach. Professor Frank Figge of Queen’s University Belfast (UK) and [...]
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Global Briefs Jul-Aug 2008
Posted on 18. Jul, 2008 by Rutaba Ahmed.
Remake a Living: The Jobs Are Blowin’ in The Wind
Turbines are sprouting like wildflowers after rain in Texas, California, Iowa, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Illinois, and Oklahoma. Not to mention China.
As the hype about “green” jobs has grown, the wind-energy industry has done a pretty good job of reporting accurately on their job creation. Industry [...]
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Sustainable Inspiration
Posted on 18. May, 2008 by Khadeeja Balkhi.
I was quite excited when Greenleaf Publishing sent TBL a copy of Sustainable Value hot off the press for us to review. Written by Chris Laszlo and published earlier this year, its first few pages are filled with impressive enough praise from academics and business people alike, including a foreword by Patrick Cescau, Unilever’s [...]
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