As we moved to Canada this summer, our well-meaning bank manager told us to get a credit card and start using it to build up our credit record. This will then lead us to a mortgage and home ownership. With home ownership, the economy moves forward – construction, appliances and the TV urge us all [...]
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To Charge it or Not: Reflecting on Our Culture of Consumption
Posted in Cities, Responsible Business on November 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Corporate Governance at the Crossroads
Posted in Cities, Corporate Responsibility, CSR, Responsible Business, Sustainability, Uncategorized on November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Why the rise of China’s and India’s mid-sized cities is a conundrum for the green economy movement When archaeologists recently announced they had just discovered the ape-like remains of our primitive ancestors in South Africa it was hailed as homo sapiens’ “missing link” – the genetic bridge between modern humans and our older less evolved [...]
An amicable divorce: Unleashing the power of public money
Posted in Cities, Public Sector, Sustainability on August 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The cold hard truth, as we know, is that the mismanagement and over consumption of natural resources is unsustainable. According to UNEP’s International Resource Panel (IRP) we need to decouple human well-being from resource consumption by linking local or national development strategies to resource flow strategies. Their analysis concludes that by 2050 the level of [...]
