Something has been bugging me for a while now. It’s not a new issue but something that has been slapping me on the head daily for the last few months more than it has done in the past. Maybe it is the continued economic struggles the world is going through. Maybe it is the Occupy [...]
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Is Sustainability Just A Band-Aid?
Posted in activism, Africa, business, business realism, business strategy, capitalism, cars, climate change, co-responsibility, community, companies, compensation, consumers, consumption, corporate citizenship, Corporate Sustainability, cost, CSR, CSV, culture, earnings, emissions, energy, environment, ethics, global, global warming, leadership, manufacturing, money, mutual responsibility, poverty, products, profits, public responsibility, purpose, realism, recession, responsibility, revenues, Shared Value, shareholders, society, sustainability, Uncategorized, value, values, tagged capitalism, consumption, CSR, environment, parity, products, profits, purchase, shared value, society, sustainability, system on December 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
How about some “activist realism” for business?
Posted in activism, activist realism, activists, business, business associations, charity, co-responsibility, communications, community, companies, consumers, corporate citizenship, Corporate Sustainability, engagement, ethics, green, leadership, messaging, mutual responsibility, NGOs, nonprofit, partnerships, philanthropy, profits, realism, responsibility, society, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, tagged activist realism, business, business realism, CSR, NGOs, shareholders, stakeholders, sustainability on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I wasn’t planning on writing a blog today but this piece in my favorite newspaper, The Guardian (yes, I am the typical lefty reader), made me roll my eyes. The piece is very well intended and generally pretty good advice for charities – Charity funding: How to approach business for help. I agree that charities [...]
Climate Change Just Isn’t Cool
Posted in activism, activists, brands, business, carbon neutral, cars, climate change, communications, consumers, CSR, culture, emissions, energy, environment, global warming, green, products, sustainability, tagged brands, business, climate change, cool, CSR, global warming, sustainability on March 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have been trying really hard. Really, really hard. You know. To be a treehugger. I think the whole concept of being a treehugger is really cool. You get to have the beard, the nice lean and muscled body, tanned and tough as nails. With my sunglasses and Bermuda shorts. Sandals and a knowing look [...]
Start Dating – The Rules of (Stakeholder) Engagement
Posted in activism, activists, business, charity, civil society, co-responsibility, communications, companies, corporate citizenship, CSR, culture, engagement, global, mutual responsibility, NGOs, nonprofit, Oxfam, partnerships, responsibility, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, transparency, value, values, tagged activists, business, civil society, co-responsibility, companies, CSR, mutual responsibility, NGOs, stakeholder engagement, stakeholders on March 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Can you remember the first time the two of you got together. The stolen looks, the uncomfortable moments of silence, the tripping over your sentences, the sweaty palms, the he-likes-me-he-likes-me-not thoughts, the private meetings when no one was looking, the uncomfortable first meal together. Yes, I am talking about stakeholder engagement. Just as with any [...]
The Birth of a Unionist (Part 1) – Meeting Mr Cunningham
Posted in activism, Africa, business, civil society, co-responsibility, corporate citizenship, CSR, ethics, leadership, LRS, mutual responsibility, NACTU, NGOs, nonprofit, personal, responsibility, society, South Africa, trade unions, values, Wisconsin, workers, tagged CSR, Cunningham Ncgukana, LRS, NACTU, personal, South Africa, trade unions, Wisconsin on February 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I can’t help but be on the side of the unions fighting for their rights in Wisconsin and elsewhere. I am pro-union. And I am pro-business. I see no contradiction in this. As a South African (now working in the US) I saw how trade unions helped people and how they led the fight against injustice. [...]
The Slippery Slope Of Partnerships: The NGO Oil Spill Experience
Posted in activism, BP, brands, business, business associations, cause, civil society, climate change, communications, community, companies, Conservation International, consumers, CSR, disaster, energy, engagement, environment, ethics, global warming, green, Greenpeace, leadership, messaging, mountaintop removal, Nature Conservancy, news, NGOs, nonprofit, oil, oil spill, Oxfam, partnerships, public responsibility, responsibility, risk, society, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, Timberland, transparency, values on May 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The oil spill seems to have more than just an environmental and political impact. It’s starting to impact how partnerships are formed between companies and NGOs. Some environmental NGOs are being tarnished - thanks to their relationship with BP. The Washington Post wrote an article about how the Nature Conservancy (and Conservation International and EDF) is [...]
What is your Oil Spill?
Posted in activism, business, companies, consumers, cost, CSR, disaster, employees, ethics, global, government, leadership, news, obesity, oil, public responsibility, responsibility, risk, society, sustainability, transparency, US, workers, tagged BP, business, costs, CSR, disaster, disasters, green washing, oil, responsibility, risk, sustainability on May 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t know if you’ve noticed the bit of oil in the Mexican Gulf. Bit of an issue for BP and the oil industry in general. I think enough is being said about the oil spill and the responsibility of companies by the experts – you really don’t need me to add another opinion to this. [...]
The Battle For The Soul Of Activism (or Remembering Earth Day)
Posted in activism, business, cause, charity, civil society, commodities, companies, consumers, CSR, environment, ethics, Fairtrade, global, global warming, green, leadership, money, news, NGOs, nonprofit, profits, society, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, tagged activism, activists, business, change.org, civil soeciety, consumers, Earth Day, EDF, environment, ethics, Fairtrade, NGOs, NRDC, NWF, partnerships, stakeholders, systemic on April 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We used to have a saying back in my university days – Activists are like Trotskyist, put more than one in a meeting and you immediately have a split. The fight between activists are not new. They are passionate about changing the world and each one have their own passionate idea of what is best. Values [...]
Needless Stakeholder Clash? Unilever, Greenpeace and the Palm Oil Wars…
Posted in activism, agriculture, business, civil society, climate change, companies, CSR, deforestation, environment, global warming, Greenpeace, Indonesia, leadership, NGOs, Sinar Mas, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, Unilever, tagged Allanblackia, climate change, CSR, deforestation, global warming, Greenpeace, Indonesia, Palm Oil, Sinar Mas, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, Unilever on April 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Reuters reported that Unilever is considering buying Palm Oil from Greenpeace target Sinar Mas again. Not surprisingly, Greenpeace is asking Unilever to not go down this road as they just plain don’t trust Sinar Mas. A bit of background – Greenpeace accuses Sinar Mas (and their subsidiaries) of cutting down rainforests to plant more Palm Oil to keep up [...]
Banking on mountaintop removal
Posted in activism, banks, business, climate change, companies, CSR, ethics, JPMorgan Chase, mountaintop removal, MTR, news, NGOs, products, services, sustainability, values, tagged banks, Coca-Cola, CSR, investment, JPMorgan Chase, mining, money, mountaintop removal, MTR, Nike, products, profit, responsibility, services, supply chain, sustainability, value chain on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have to say that it is one of my least favorite corporate practices – mountaintop removal or MTR. I just don’t see any sustainable benefit from it. And it’s pretty ugly too. So no surprise that people continue to target the industry for some activist scrutiny. Their latest target is JPMorgan Chase. Young activists are [...]
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