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Navigating The Ethical Issues

Navigating The Ethical Issues

Sustainability is a good idea, right? The noble notion of ensuring that current generations meet their needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs seems fair, farsighted and just. An ethical thing to do.  But is that the relevant...
CEO’s Commitment Created Template for Sustainability 

CEO’s Commitment Created Template for Sustainability 

When the New York Times Magazine produced “The Climate Issue” last year, the cover story centered on one company: the Georgia-based flooring manufacturer Interface.  In the past 25 years, Interface has become a beacon to other businesses across the world, providing...
Students Must Grasp Value Of Sustainability

Students Must Grasp Value Of Sustainability

Corporate sustainability can be defined as the ability of companies to integrate financial and non-financial decisions into their operations based on interactions with stakeholders. The underlying premise of corporate sustainability is to view the holistic nature of...
Drowning In Our Passion For Fashion

Drowning In Our Passion For Fashion

How Circular Marketing Brings Hope In Chile’s Atacama Desert, more than 100,000 tons of clothing, including never-worn pieces with sales tags still attached, lie in heaps that stretch for miles.   “It’s not a landfill,” Alexis Carreno, the dumpsite...
To Be Sustainable Is So Attainable

To Be Sustainable Is So Attainable

Talk about getting pulled in opposite directions.Welcome to torture, C-suite style. You’re a CEO in 1992 and your annoying assistant keeps bringing up something called carbon footprint, but you haven’t had a chance to check the HQ lobby carpet for it because...
There’s More To It Than That

There’s More To It Than That

Sustainability. It’s the new black and it’s all the rage. You can’t open a business publication without seeing something on Green Investment, or Environmental, Social and Governance metrics or people, planet and profit. Did you know that more than 90% of CEOs state...