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It’s Time We Measured What Matters
Integrated reporting encourages companies to track the value they are adding to, or subtracting from, six capitals: financial, manufactured, intellectual, natural, human, and social. That’s an...
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Stranded Assets or Stranded Humanity – Choose one
In Canada, we are witnessing a false debate: which is safer; shipping diluted bitumen (dilbit) by pipeline or by train? Pipeline proponents point to recent train derailment disasters as evidence that...
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A 12-Step Program for Our Fossil Fuel Dependency
click image to enlarge PwC released its Low Carbon Economy Index 2013 last week. It confirms that we will reach the tipping point for climate destabilization by 2034 unless we end our fossil fuel...
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3 Reasons I Love the WEF “Global Risks 2014” Report
In my last blog, I declared that it was time for sustainability champions to unleash three risk arguments for more proactive action on climate change. Last week, I discovered a goldmine of support...
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3 Reasons to Screen Energy Companies from Rankings
Did you notice anything strange about the latest Global 100 rankings and the Climate Counts rankings? The January 2014 Global 100 ranking of the world’s 100 most sustainable large publically traded...
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A Wild and Crazy Corporate CSR Idea: Pay Your Taxes
Ahhhh, April. Finally spring is arriving - the time when a young man’s fancy turns to love … and the rest of us think about taxes. Damn. Here's a wild and crazy corporate CSR idea, pay your taxes! No...
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4 Fixes for Risky Income Inequality
A companion debate to how much employees should be paid (see my last blog) is what the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay should be. The debate usually centers on three questions: what is the...
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5 Fixes for Dangerous Wealth Inequality
My last blog was about fixing risky and unsustainable income inequality. Its twin problem is a dangerous wealth chasm between the haves and have-nots. Wealth inequality is related to, but different...
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7 Bold Strokes to Avoid Climate Destabilization
What would we expect governments to commit to at the 21st United Nations climate summit in Paris in December 2015 if they are serious about avoiding climate destabilization? In this blog post, we'll...
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3 Consultative Selling Questions Answered by the “Sustainability ROI Workbook”
I had a catch-up lunch with a former IBM colleague recently. As we updated each other on our current activities, I couldn't resist asking him how he would recognize a good business case if he saw one....
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