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 »
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. [...]
Public Responsibility: Where’s the Third Voice in Aid Reform?
Posted in Africa, business, civil society, community, companies, CSR, culture, development, foreign aid, global, NGOs, nonprofit, public responsibility, society, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, trade, US, USA, tagged Africa, aid, business, Center for Global Development, civil society, development, foreign aid, InterAction, NGOs, Oxfam, public responsibility, reform, stakeholder engagement, trade, US on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today I’m going to tackle Public Responsibility instead of Corporate Responsibility – the responsiblity of governments and government agencies within the broader sustainability and development debate. My focus is stakeholder engagement and materiality as seen happening in the discussions on Foreign Aid Reform in the US. I must applaud the US government for taking on [...]
My beloved country called Africa
Posted in Africa, business, communications, companies, consumers, culture, tagged business, communications, culture, global on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I just landed in La Guardia and got into a taxi heading off to Manhattan. I settled in and gave the driver the details of my hotel. I was surprised – he was one of the few taxi drivers in New York with a New York accent. Imagine that. An ex-firefighter he told me. He leaned back in that [...]
My beef with Fairtrade
Posted in Africa, brands, business, companies, consumers, CSR, development, ethics, Fairtrade, global, sustainability, tagged brands, business, communications, CSR, development, Fairtrade, farmers, marketing, messaging, sustainability, trade on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Fairtrade has the perfect brand name – it tells people that this brand is about being fair and implies that anything else is unfair. And Fairtrade is a great certification system. Yes, I know, they don’t like to be called a certification system. But they are. And an excellent one. Maybe even the best global [...]
Solving the changing African climate – a Catch 22?
Posted in Africa, climate change, development, global warming, sustainability, tagged Africa, climate change, development, global warming on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, this whole week I was stuck in conferences telling me the world is going to burn in the next 50 to 100 years. And the rising oceans will act as a temporary cool-down – but then we will drown as they rise a bit too much. Bye-bye Manhattan. Bye-bye Cape Town. Bye-bye London. Depressing. [...]
A fan of global warming – not just hot air
Posted in Africa, climate change, environment, global, global warming, green, sustainability, tagged Africa, climate change, environment, global warming, sustainability, UK on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So you worry about global warming? The latest is that it might actually be good for your health so you shouldn’t worry about it. It’s just a lot of hot air according to those in the know. Just be prepared and have your fan ready. According to a study done by the UK’s the Department of Health and Health Protection Agency (HPA), [...]
What’s the emission of your local warlord’s car?
Posted in Africa, cars, CSR, development, emissions, environment, green, sustainability, war, war lords, tagged Africa, cars, emissions, environment, hybrid, war on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Man, these umlungu’s over here really like their big cars. Okay, not all of them. And I have more of a problem with those who don’t drive big cars than those who do. They are all up in arms about the impact on global climate and the emissions by these big trucks – bakkies back [...]
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