Monthly Archives: November 2008

Metrics and Sustainability at General Mills

November 24, 2008 – 6:54 pm

My BlogTalkRadio guest today was Kim Callis from General Mills.  Kim’s job is integrating sustainability into the fabric of General Mills’ operations.  Give it a listen – we had a great conversation – but I want to share one big point I was left with.
General Mills mission is to “Nourish Lives, Nourish Communities, and Nourish [...]

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Glass Half Full – The Sustainable Opportunity for Business

November 20, 2008 – 12:06 am

In the last two weeks, I’ve had conversations on my radio show with two gentlemen who work with very different ends of the business spectrum.
Last week, I spoke with Graham Russell, Executive Director of CORE Colorado. CORE is a non-profit business association dedicated to promoting more environmentally and socially responsible business practices in Colorado and [...]

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Resilience, Emergence and Overcoming Polarization – a Conversation with Don Beck

November 6, 2008 – 2:16 am

On the morning after an historic election, what if President-Elect Obama were to call and ask: “OK, I got elected, now what?”
In today’s BlogTalkRadio Show with Dr. Don Beck – bio-psycho-social mapmaker and activist – we explored that question.
In Dr. Beck’s view, our greatest need is a remedy for the polarization in our society. We’ve [...]

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Guayakí Maté – A Restoration Business Model

November 3, 2008 – 11:18 pm

One of the issues many of us have with the term “sustainability” is that it sounds static.  It runs smack into our beliefs in creativity, innovation and progress. What if you could develop a for-profit business model that actually improved the environment and the social and economic conditions of people in the supply chain?  That’s [...]

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