We are in a “perfect storm” of trends that are driving a new view of what consitutes “good” business performance. Our internet connected, “Hot Flat and Crowded” world puts all of us in each others’ backyards. A global company can pollute an indigenous tribal area today, and it’s all over the web tomorrow. The [...]
December 22, 2008 – 8:49 pm
Commerce and trade are some of the most basic and ancient human activities. This is a theme that has run through a number of my BlogTalkRadio conversations, particularly with Marsha Shenk and Jahn Ballard. I spoke with Jahn last week on the show, in a segment entitled Lean and Green Transformation. Jahn is a truly [...]
December 9, 2008 – 11:52 am
This morning I interviewed Steve Meyer, Founder and CEO of Mainstreet Pedicabs, on my BlogTalkRadio Show. Steve started off studying both Ecology and Economics, worked in real estate development for a few years, and then started Mainstreet Pedicabs. Mainstreet is the largest manufacturer of pedicabs in North America, and ships pedicabs to major cities all [...]
December 2, 2008 – 7:02 pm
Last night I read a fascinating article in What is Enlightenment? Magazine (www.wie.org) by Howard Bloom subtitled “Descartes’ Delusion”. The delusion was that René Descartes settled himself into a house in Amsterdam, back in 1636, and decided he’d sit there, more or less by himself, until he penetrated the bedrock of reality, ie “What is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]