Are you going to the Responsible Business Summit?
It’s next week, so you’ve not got long to clear your diary, but it does look good. (See the agenda).
Key topics for discussion include:
I’m particularly looking forward to the discussions on resource scarcity. This is a growing area of interest for companies; for example, water usage is increasingly monitored and reductions sought as part … Read the rest
Always, there’s a moment when the penny drops.
For me, in comedy, it was somewhere between:
Listeners who are listening will realise Minnie and Henry are talking rubbish. There are no elephants in Sussex, they’re only found in Kent. North of a line drawn between two points, thus making it the shortest distance. (The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill on Sea / The Goons)
and
Why not … collect those little metal
One of the blogs I keep my little beady eye upon is “Civilising the Economy” by Marvin Brown, professor of business ethics at the University of San Francisco. You can get a measure of the man and his writing from the blog’s strapline:
My goal here is not to think outside the box but change the box we think in.
Anyway, a recent post he’s put up is about developing a new course on the … Read the rest
Occasionally (just occasionally) I get mistaken for a rabid anti-corporate watermelon* who froths blood at the mouth and would give the most ardent exorcist a run for their money.
Not a bit of it. It’s just that I’ve had it bred into me that if you create nexuses (nexii?) which are too large they become catastrophic single points of failure… as evinced very neatly by the ongoing banking crisis.
However there is also something to … Read the rest
This is the second part of some best practice examples for sustainability websites, drawn from Two Tomorrows’ 2012 Tomorrow’s Value Research report. Part one can be read here.
