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With so much evidence of the potentially devastating effects of climate change – and a large portion of the culpability apportioned to business – business is under pressure to be more socially and environmentally responsible.
Gone are the days when corporate risk came from external sources and could be protected with firewalls and anti-virus software.
Coined 20 years ago, ‘sustainability’ has become one of the most important ideas of our time.
In my early 20s I prided myself in living out of a backpack as I travelled the world.
Monica Graaff spent a few minutes with Costanza when he visited Cape Town earlier this year.
When Jeff Skoll, founder of e-bay and producer of An Inconvenient Truth, finally made it as a presenter on TED.
The first of a new breed of dam – required by law to be built and managed with careful sensitivity to down-stream communities and eco-systems – has come on stream in the Western Cape, setting an example for bulk-water demand management in the future.
As we begin to grasp just what a big mess we have made of the world, the question is on many a mind: Can we fix it? THE RECENT CHANGE in global attitudes towards the challenges facing humanity at this juncture in our history is close to staggering.
A love-affair with 50s adverts sparks a question: If these ads launched us into our state of consumerist over-dose, can marketing wield its magic to cure us of our addiction? I love 50s adverts, even if I don’t buy in to what they were selling.
We need to wean ourselves off affluenza in order to save ourselves from ecological meltdown.
Step aside tree-huggers, celebrity eco-documentary makers, carbon emission scientists, corporate green-washers and Earth Day festival moms, and check out the latest design trends.
Action on climate change is not a fad or fashion – the threat is here for the long term, and the opportunity is that you appeal to an ever-growing proportion of the population that cares about the environmental impact of the products and services they buy.