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3 Punchy Videos on How to Span the Wealth Chasm
The Occupy / We Are the 99% movements have awakened many people to unsustainable economic inequities. There has always been a gap between the haves and the have-nots. It’s the widening of that...
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Further on the Robin Hood Tax
In my December 13 blog, 3 Punchy Videos on How to Span the Wealth Chasm, I used three videos to highlight excellent reform proposals to help address the underlying causes of unjust and risky wealth...
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End of Bob Willard’s Blog – Exciting New Projects On the Horizon
After much reflection, this will be my last blog post. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for following my posts and for their insightful comments.I am now refocusing my efforts...
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Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line – Tenth Anniversary Edition
The New Sustainability Advantage Pre-Publication Discount Valid Until March 1st 2012 The New Sustainability Advantage has a recalibrated, and more compelling business case for sustainability strategies...
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Four New Resources for Sustainability Champions
I love it when a plan comes together. —Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith, A-Team leader— March was a great month. I’ve been counting backward from that date for two years. I wanted to co-release four new...
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New Sustainability Advantage DVD Increases my Ripple Effect
How many talks can I give in a year without killing myself? I asked myself that question a few years ago on a strategic planning retreat – being a sole proprietor, I can hold those in the shower. I...
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Sustainability Business Case #1: More Profit
How would we know a business case for sustainability if we saw one? The strength of any business case depends on agreement on what we mean by “business case”—how we’d know one if we saw one. These...
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Sustainability Business Case #2: ROI
In my last post, I identified three ways to frame the business case for sustainability, including through improved profit. The profit-based business case is robust and smart sustainability...
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Sustainability Business Case # 3: Share Price
In previous posts, I identified three ways to frame the business case for sustainability: improved profit; high return on investment (ROI); and higher share price/market valuation. I’ve already...
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5 Reasons I Low-Ball Employee Productivity in the Business Case for...
As explained in The New Sustainability Advantage, sustainability strategies and programs result in higher levels of employee engagement. Engaged employees are more productive. They want their company...
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Four Strategies to Use Capital Markets as a Force for Good
We need sustainable businesses if we are to have a sustainable world. That means we need strategies to use capital markets as a force for good and we must embed environmental, social, and governance...
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Five ESG Standards Will Awaken Capital Markets
Last week’s blog outlines my four strategies to help capital markets embed environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies into the mindset of executives. I briefly referenced five concurrent...
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Capitalism 2.0
The game of business as we have played it for the last 150 years cannot continue. We are primed for Capitalism 2.0. The current rules of the game reward companies that privatize benefits and gains,...
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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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The Fourth ESG Benchmark
When organizations assess how well a company is doing on its sustainability efforts, they need something to compare it to: they need a benchmark. Today, raters and rankers of companies’ sustainability...
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5 Benefits of a Gold-standard ESG Benchmark
click image to enlarge In my last blog, I positioned a benchmark that would be used by raters and rankers of companies’ sustainability progress, and by companies themselves. Rather than assessing a...
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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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CO2 – Why 450 ppm is Dangerous and 350 ppm is Safe
In my October 29, 2013, blog, Stranded Assets or Stranded Humanity. Choose One, I reviewed the math that supports leaving 80% of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground. That would allow us to limit...
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Unleashing 3 Risk Arguments in the Climate Debate
Any good business case for doing something new or different has two components: opportunity and risk. Governments, companies, communities, and people like you and me need to justify why we change:...
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