Tag: global sustainability

Creating shared value – the new sustainability paradigm? (via On sustainability, csr and climate change)

On By southwerkIn business ethics1 Comment

One of the things about American business that drives me crazy is the myopic quarterly focus of many companies, particularly Wall Street firms with their bonus oriented goal setting. Short term thinking causew serious problems for long term investors and has in a good number of cases resulted in the destruction of the company. This is good business ethics writing and I hope this paradigm catches on and changes the way businesses think about profits and planning.

James Pilant

To most business-minded folks, the creating shared value (CSV) concept is nothing new. In short, as Michael Porter and Mark Kramer put it in a recent Harvard Business Review article, CSV is all about “value creation for business that simultaneously yields more profit and greater social impact, resulting in powerful transformations and opportunities for growth and innovation in both business and society.” It assumes that  companies create business … Read More

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You Can WIN ONE Million Dollars!!

On By southwerkIn business ethics, Capitalism, Government Failure2 Comments

Generally, you could never get me to click on an entry with that title but you are reading one of my entries and I hope you know that I will do better than the sidebar glowy bouncy advertisements designed to get you to part with something if only your name and e-mail.

I don’t want you to give me anything. But if you could win this million dollars, you would make me very happy, and it would be my great pleasure to meet you, once you’ve accomplished this.

Dick Smith is an Australian. He’s also what you might call, eh, um …, eccentric. Nevertheless the offer is genuine. (He’s also a billionaire.) He will pay you one million dollars to solve the problem of global population growth.

These are the qualifications –

How you can win the award

* be under the age of 30.

* believe in maintaining stable population numbers and a sustainable consumption of energy and resources that do not reduce economic growth.

* come up with and communicate successfully about alternatives to consumption-driven economic growth.

* get noticed in the media for campaigning on such issues.

What do you think? You want the money? Can you face that kind of intellectual challenge?

James Pilant