Energy Audits
Businesses regularly examine their processes in order to identify weaknesses, waste, and ways of becoming more productive and profitable. That’s exactly what a sustainability audit entails.
Shared value – Sharing Values – a must for sustainable business
A more sustainable future will require that we devise ways of developing and sharing value. Many of the problems we face are not ones that can be addressed by an organisation on its own. We hear a lot of talk now about stakeholders
Natural Capitalism – a book review
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. (1999) Hawkens, P. Lovins, A. Lovins, H. Published by Little Brown & Company. Natural Capitalism is a book published in 1999 that was co-authored by Paul Hawkens, Amory & Hunter Lovins. It was a best seller and very influential book that popularised the idea that the current […]
Defining Sustainability
Competition – a cautionary tale
“The great challenge of our time is to build and nurture sustainable communities – communities that are designed in such a way that their ways of life, businesses, economies, physical structures, and technologies do not interfere with nature’s inherent ability to sustain life. The first step in this endeavour is to understand the principles of organization that ecosystems have developed to sustain the web of life”.
Fritjof Capra. The Hidden Connections (London:Flamingo, 2003).
Working towards efficiency
Woodland Pathway
2…4…6…8…Why should we Collaborate?
It seems that everyone is talking about collaboration these days. A recent edition of the Harvard Business Review was a double issue, focussing on collaboration. What is this fuss all about? People have been collaborating for years, surely. Businesses have had close working relationships with suppliers and customers for many years. The world of business […]
What is Conscious Capitalism?
This article is reproduced from the website www.consciouscapitalism.org Definition of Conscious Capitalism derived from Conscious Capitalism, Inc. Conscious Capitalism is a registered trademark of Conscious Capitalism, Inc. Conscious Capitalism Conscious Capitalism is an emerging form of capitalism that holds the potential for enhancing business/organisational performance while simultaneously enhancing the quality of life for billions of […]
