“Climate change is our best chance to demand and build a better world,” says Naomi Klein, board member of 350.org and author of newly published book This Changes Everything – Capitalism vs the Climate.
In her book, Klein discusses a paper […]
Blue Australasia, the Australian entity of the ‘be sustainable’ group launched its NSW chapter last night at the Carbon Reduction Institute (CRI), in partnership with Green Ups. Blue Australasia is a consultancy that applies Blue Economy solutions to businesses and […]
I’ve been watching a LinkedIn conversation about “taking the immense risk that Climate Change is posing” and watched it transform into a believe/don’t believe conversation about human-induced climate change.
To me, sustainability advocates have a much more powerful challenge to make, especially to business players. We can ask them a different and more immediate set of questions:
What does the market place think about environmental issues?
What are your customers doing?
What are your suppliers doing?
What are the market leaders doing?
We don’t necessarily need to prove “climate change is true” – we just need to prove that there is a real case for business understanding of environmental issues. […]
The team at Singapore-based Integrative Design, (from left) Rodin Genoff, Rosie Helson, Sarah-Jane Sherwood and Nigel Grier. Image: Integrative Design
Singapore-based Integrative Design plans to launch the inaugural Blue Cities Index in Singapore to redefine how sustainable cities should work to […]
The basic principles of how to communicate about sustainability are not rocket science, In fact, they are not dissimilar to the basic principles of how to communicate effectively in general.
Learning the alphabet
Consider this. Person A wants to say something to […]
By Sarah-Jane Sherwood, Communicate Blue
“The financial crisis has lifted the veil on capitalism, exposing its inherent frailties, but there is cause for hope,” says Mike Townsend of Earthshine, UK and Brad Zarnett of Toronto Sustainability Speaker Series, Canada.
The duo have […]
20 November 2013 — SPINIFEX: As a Sydney-sider, I adore skirmishes around our beautiful countryside in NSW. I marvel at the fact that I can be in the bush within an hour on a Friday night, after work.
What I have found […]
Australia’s top tertiary institutions have produced our country’s cream of the business crop; however, has the institutional style of teaching nurtured an environment that breeds best business practice?
Fourteen of Australia’s leading educators and business leaders recently gathered at a Hargraves […]
I’ll give you a clue, it has nothing to do with Duff beer. The answer is actually Jay Heinrichs, a persuasion consultant and author of the bestselling Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us […]
Following the WWFs recent report, criticising the advertising industry, Kathleen Enright of Ogilvy Earth decided it is about time that advertising speaks out about how it can benefit the sustainability agenda. We went Kathleen’s first Kermit Couch talk to find […]
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