Join us on 13 June (Thu) on the upcoming Social Entrepreneurship Lecture Series – Business Beyond Usual – Recalibrating Business Models through Design, Process and People. Get inspired by the sharing from Ms Erin Meezan, Vice President of Sustainability at Interface Inc. on how this global company incorporates design, quality, business strategy to achieve sustainability. [...]

Garment factory collapse could leave reputations in tatters; seven steps to protect brand names Here are seven principles that foreign companies operating in low cost production markets should follow to better protect their reputations: 1. If the workplace health, safety and environmental regulatory framework of your sourcing market is less stringent than in your home [...]

Are you a reader who is Linkedin, Tweeting, or would like to be notified when a new video or presentation are uploaded? Then take a few minutes to integrate the various Collective Responsibility social mediums into your accounts… and if you are not sure about which mediums are worth your time (social media can get [...]

Sustainability isn’t for everyone, and even in the firms that we have come to recognize as leaders, there are internal struggles over who is going to own what program. This is particularity true in firms who are adding on top of, versus integrating, sustainability to the existing responsibilities of the individual (or department), and it [...]

One of the key stakeholders, and primary drivers, of a firm are its consumers, and regardless of the issue that is being discussed, the role of the consumer has been almost always seen as the change agent. Once “consumers” wisen up, change will happen. Over the last few months, this conversation has taken on a [...]

“When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, [...]

The vision behind our idea is a world where people don’t carry hazardous chemicals in their bodies, the environment is free of toxic pollutants, and the economy diligently conserves its natural resources for consumers and future generations. We want to make it easier for consumers to create this world through their purchasing decisions and everyday [...]

The question that should be asked is “why is operating an unsustainable business model that damages the mere system that business needs to participate in to survive an accepted business model?” – Pail Polman

Are you a reader who is Linkedin, Tweeting, or would like to be notified when a new video or presentation are uploaded? Then take a few minutes to integrate the various Collective Responsibility social mediums into your accounts… and if you are not sure about which mediums are worth your time (social media can get [...]

For those of you who missed it, the World Bank came out with a report today stating they are now seeing a reasonable chance that the temperature of the Earth will rise 4 degrees by 2060.  To say that this will have radical consequences on large geographic areas and populations on Earth is an understatement, [...]