One of the things about corporate responsibility and sustainability initiatives is that the best programs are those that are part of the core operations of the firm, align to the greater goals, and do not require a constant champion.  It is simply embedded into the economics and actions of the firm, and while the firm [...]

Last month while being interviewed for the New York Times piece China’s City of the Future Rises on a Wasteland, I was asked about the importance of China’s eco-city planning… What should be the goal of an eco-city and why are they important to China? To me, this was perhaps one of the more important [...]

One of the biggest issues that underlies the problem we face is the belief that we cannot act alone, or that when we something it “isn’t my problem”, however the recent Foreign Policy article China’s Missing Children highlights the role of the individual. More specifically, the respnsibility that exists at the individual level to act. [...]

The other night while speaking with my wife about achieving goals, she made the comment that I needed to think more like a rocket than fireworks. That, in the interest of achieving my “goals”, I needed to have a trajectory with a goal as the destination… versus shooting straight up in the air, looking pretty, [...]

Following up from my post last week where I said “there is going to be a HUGE market for providing that capacity “, I was asked for a few examples of where I saw opportunities for products / services. 1) Urbanization and migrants With over 200+ cities with more than a million people, and a [...]

At about the 5th minute of the above clip, Mike Daisy, who is being interview on TechCrunch TV about his observations of a visit to a number of Apple’s China suppliers, says something that I felt was HUGELY profound: “I that there is a huge responsibility.  That when you export your jobs around the world, [...]