Business Sustainability

John Anderson, CEO, Levi Strauss & Co

Tom — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:32:16 +0000

If sustainability in business slips into a few well-worn clichés and corporate slogans, then I think we are failing in our role as business leaders.

Mike Duke, CEO, Walmart

rjwegner — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:50:18 +0000

Sustainability continues to make Walmart a better company by reducing waste, lowering costs, driving innovation, increasing productivity and helping us fulfill our mission of saving people money so they can live better.

The Secrets to Getting Your Green Business Funded

bkardasz — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:23:25 +0000

Venture capitalist Bryan Korba offers an insider’s perspective on what Venture Capitalists (and often times what Angel Investors) are looking for, how not to look like an amateur, and what to do with the money when you get it. (More)

Michael Braungart

Tom — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:12:32 +0000

Sustainability is boring. What would you say if I were to ask you about your relationship with your wife? How would you characterise it? As sustainable? If this is the bigger goal – sustainability – then I feel really sorry because it doesn’t celebrate human creativity and human nature.

Simon Zadek

Tom — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:11:22 +0000

Will our grandchildren know what a company is? … it seems that the real institutional challenge is to create a new type of institution.

James Lovelock

Tom — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:10:35 +0000

One tends to forget it’s not the oil companies that drive our cars; we drive them and burn the fuel. We don’t have to do it, and to entirely blame industry for making a profit from selling us petrol is quite naive. The whole of society is in the game together and to single out industry for attack is quite wrong.

William McDonough

Tom — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:10:00 +0000

Negligence begins tomorrow, because now we know what to do.

Stuart L. Hart

Tom — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:09:22 +0000

The simple truth is that there are no companies that are sustainable in the world today; there are none. What we have are companies that are experimenting with pieces of the puzzle.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Tom — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:08:38 +0000

We’re going to solve these problems: extreme poverty will end by the year 2025. That’s what I said in the book and I think that’s what’s going to happen.

John Elkington

Tom — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:05:22 +0000

The level of change that is going to be forced on our economies, our value chains, our companies and the people who work in business is going to be both profound, and profoundly exciting. There are few times in world history where I would rather have been alive.