Towards 9 Billion Book Series Released
To follow a path to sustainability we need to ask better questions. We need to delve far deeper than can we do business with less impact.
Valuing Natural Capital in a Perfect World…A Response.
Signatories who recognise the value and primacy of Natural Capital and wish to develop an appropriate response should consider some key issues outlined below.
We need Earth as a ‘going concern’ NOT as pieces broken up and sold off.
While it may seem perverse to say so, in cold mechanistic terms the Earth’s value to humans lies in it providing us with the means to carry on doing stuff – not in either its inherent value (what we would pay to keep it) or in its value when broken up and traded (what we would get if we sold it).
Social Impact: The Metric of Success in the Sustainability Era
A focus upon social utility – the overall wellbeing that a company brings to society – is a defining characteristic of the companies that will thrive and shape the 21st century.
Can we move beyond one-dimensional capitalism? Not all “capitals” are created equal.
Using a comparable metric like money as a way to put things on a level playing field makes sense, but only up to a point.