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 [...]
October 24, 2008 – 4:01 pm
A record combination of multisyllabic words, but a very interesting conversation I had with my friend Marsha Shenk yesterday on my BlogTalkRadio Show. Marsha refers to herself as a “Business Anthropologist”. That’s just a taste of Marsha’s style - provocative questions are the core of her consulting practice, and the way she lives her life. [...]
October 15, 2008 – 6:38 pm
Check out my latest BlogTalkRadio interview with Dick Wagner. We spent an hour talking about the nature of wealth, our money system, and how all of these impact both social and environmental sustainability. Here are some highlights.
Dick has been a thought leader in the financial planning world for twenty-five years, including a stint as President [...]
October 9, 2008 – 6:50 pm
I’ve now recorded two interviews with very interesting friends on Blog Talk Radio. This is the beginning of a series of conversations with provocative thinkers, business leaders, activists and educators on Sustainable Leadership. We explore the idea that sustainability requires a deep personal and cultural shift in the ways we see, think, act and do [...]
September 17, 2008 – 5:24 pm
As I described in my last post, I have been challenged to see how I “hold the future” in my mind. My habit is to be a green-techno-optimist.
And, that could be completely wrong.
I’ve been through several apocalyptic mood swings ever since I read The Limits to Growth in the run-up to the first Earth Day, [...]
September 9, 2008 – 11:42 pm
I’ve always tended to be a fan of globalization – maybe as much in a spiritual sense as an economic one. As a high school student, I loved reading Teilhard de Chardin’s idea of the emerging “noosphere”, a growing field of global consciousness. I was a huge fan of Arthur C. Clarke’s book, Childhood’s End, [...]
August 19, 2008 – 7:00 pm
Last month I had the good fortune to help my colleague Susan Skjei facilitate the Lean and Green Summit in Boulder, Colorado. The big message for me was how much the field of “lean thinking” offers for companies thinking about sustainability. One of the nagging issues with sustainability is defining what it actually would look [...]
August 13, 2008 – 9:23 pm
The companies that are on the leading edge of sustainability are demonstrating that it’s possible to be lean, green, and profitable. But being sustainable is more than a matter of just complying with regulations or mounting a PR campaign. It’s a different way of imagining possibilities, managing collaborative business relationships, and leading change. Blue Opal [...]