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 »
Build it (green) and they will buy?
Posted in activists, brands, business, climate change, co-responsibility, communications, companies, consumers, corporate citizenship, CSR, CSV, environment, global warming, green, marketing, messaging, products, responsibility, Shared Value, sustainability, tagged communications, consumers, CSR, environment, green, sustainability on July 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Everything seems to be turning green. And there is nothing wrong with that – companies creating new, innovative products and services that are good for them and good for the environment. But consumers haven’t completely bought into this yet. A number of green products aren’t flying off the shelves the way companies anticipated. Why is [...]
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 [...]
Can I interest you in a green Blow Up Doll?
Posted in brands, climate change, consumers, environment, green, sustainability, tagged consumers, environment, green, sustainability on February 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Okay, so I don’t really want you to buy a blowup doll. Not even a green one. But it seems as if we think consumers will buy anything green – or rather that a green product will have an edge over competing not-so-green products. Consumers might be more interested in the environmental factors of a [...]
Election 2010: CSR Snake Oil Selling?
Posted in business, climate change, companies, corporate citizenship, CSR, Democratic Party, earnings, election, emissions, employees, energy, environment, ethics, global warming, leadership, money, mountaintop removal, politics, profits, public responsibility, Republican Party, responsibility, revenues, sustainability, Tea Party, transparency, US, USA, value, values, workers, tagged business, CSR, election, politics, sustainability, values on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is election time here in the USA. To state the obvious – It’s an interesting time to be in the US. It’s even more interesting to watch how business behave during these election cycles. This election is especially interesting from that perspective as the two main parties are very divided on a range of [...]
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 [...]
Emission Myths & Other Strategies
Posted in business, carbon neutral, climate change, companies, CSR, emissions, energy, environment, ethics, global warming, green, leadership, marketing, PepsiCo, sustainability, tagged cap-and-trade, carbon, caron neutral, climate change, CSR, emissions, energy, global warming, PepsiCo, sustainability on April 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
No, this is not about Climate Change but about carbon and how companies play around with their carbon footprint. Generally companies have two options (or a combination of the two) on how to deal with their carbon footprint – reduce it or buy your way out of it. Let’s start with the last one first… [...]
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 [...]
Tomorrow it will be sunny (and other weathermen lies)
Posted in climate change, environment, global warming, news, weather, weathercasters, weathermen, tagged climate change, global warming, science, sustainability, weather, weathercaster, weathermen on April 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve never been the biggest fan of weathermen. Or, to be more politically correct, weathercasters. Too often I get my running gear ready for a nice run in the sun and… oops… it’s raining again. Show me a weathercaster and I’ll raise you a shot in the dark. They just don’t get it right often enough [...]
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