About the clout: Pro-sustainability businesses lobby for greater good
Increasingly, businesses are using their clout to influence governments to advance a fair, inclusive and sustainable society and position their business for success. They recognize that government leadership is essential to develop progressive economic, social and environmental public policy to realize a future in which business and society can prosper.
The circular revolution: purposeful packaging
Step by step. Product by product. Standard by standard. Consumer by consumer. That is what it will take to re-engineer our take-make-dispose economy so it is “restorative and regenerative by design, keeping products, components and materials at their highest utility and value at all times, distinguishing between technical and biological cycles.” (Ellen MacArthur Foundation)
Going Beyond Less Bad: Redefining products and brands for positive impact
We want all of our three billion products we sell every year to be well on the path to being truly sustainable by 2025.
It’s an ambitious commitment by UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) spelling out their long-term vision for product sustainability.
Acquiring Circular Know-How: Companies can teach consumers circular skills through product use instructions
For some, social purpose transcends maximizing profits and shareholder value, and for others it is how they create value and grow.
Profit with Purpose New Way to Do Business
For some, social purpose transcends maximizing profits and shareholder value, and for others it is how they create value and grow.
Climate Change and the Third Way: Adapt, Mitigate or Transform?
Grim climate change reality: the seas are rising. Terrifying hurricanes regularly raze vast, inhabited areas. Wildfires flare up frequently and cause massive damage.
Universities: Show us what you’ve got!
We live in a volatile, uncertain and complex world. With threats of climate change, rising income inequality, social unrest, resource scarcity…
Vancity – a Force For Good
Vancity, Canada’s largest community credit union, has achieved the title of Canada’s Best Corporate Citizen for the second year in a row.
Accelerating Sustainability Visions for the Future
If you haven’t updated your sustainability or corporate social responsibility approach in the last few years, you are putting your company at risk.
Progressing Past the CSR Plateau
Corporate social responsibility is stuck. When it emerged on the scene 20 years ago, businesses and other stakeholders had high expectations for what a focus on CSR could deliver. But the reality is that neither business nor society are on track to enable nine billion people to live well within the boundaries of the planet by 2050 – let alone 2030.
Embracing profit and purpose as the new way to do business
Employees want more from their employer than a paycheque. They crave a sense of pride and fulfillment and want to work for a company whose values match their own.
The Circular Economy in Action: HP leading the way
Getting started going circular. Where can we turn for inspiration? HP is certainly one innovation leader to watch.