We begin 2013 with a stark reminder in 2012 of the vulnerability of the global community’s sustainability to impacts of seemingly unending environmental degradation. The Rio 20 Summit in the summer of 2012 once again brought together a huge number of stakeholders to discuss and debate the global implications of climate change, environmental pollution, scarcity […]
* (a quote from the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe) By: Adrienna Zsakay Note: For the purposes of this article, and despite the different roles non-government (NGO’s) and non-profit organisations (NPO’s) may play, a generic term of ‘third-sector’ will be used. In addition it is recognised that many do generate surpluses to […]
Part 1 – The genesis of corporate sustainability: Corporations, the world over, are formed and then go on to conduct business, with one express purpose to generate a financial return on the investment of their shareholders. In simpler words, to make profits. This may sound obvious and even cliched, but on the other hand, it […]
When Unilever Indonesia wanted clean water for their plant on the highly-polluted Brantas River, they turned to community partners. Rather than throwing money at the problem, they provided management expertise, volunteering help and equipment to help the community help themselves. Key to this was changing the community’s mindset from seeing the river as little more […]
