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Materiality Matters, what matters most in sustainable business?

Materiality is the difference between a weak sustainability approach and one that’s logical, planned and based upon what’s important. What matters most?

Sustainability, environmental management and quality – parallels and differences

Sustainability, EMS & quality management – can a continuous improvement approach to the management of sustainability deliver real strategic change?

Sustainable business culture – how do you nurture it?

Any change in organisational priority implies a change in organisational approach and capacity. Successful sustainability must be approached as a change issue, in the norms, values systems and structures of an organisation as much as the specific ambition, goals and performance commitments of a sustainability strategy.

Act now for sustainability! Should companies be activists?

Sustainability is a transformative agenda. It requires companies to not only develop new priorities, but also to become corporate activists – to act to affect the wider system within which they operate.

The sustainability of profit – stop looking back

Why isn’t profit useful for measuring sustainability, or even for telling us much about economic viability? Because profit is a lagging indicator and sustainability is inherently about long-termism. Assessing and delivering sustainability requires forward-looking indicators.

Sustainable Finance – workshop report

In September 2017, we ran a Towards 9 Billion workshop on sustainable finance, to explore how the finance sector could build a sustainable future. To get the workshop report contact us.

How might the financial system build a sustainable future?

A sustainable financial system requires both rethinking the very nature of value, as well as creativity in how we would project that value over time.

Population & consumption: where’s the problem?

Alongside the challenges to sustainability we already face, there is growing concern about how these might accelerate in the future. One key issue is population growth and its impacts, but should the scale of humanity be seen as a threat or as an opportunity?

Sustainable energy systems – what are they and how do we achieve them?

Effort is going into into exploring how we might develop sustainable energy systems – what are the issues and dimensions to consider?

It’s the end of the world…but I don’t care

All that environmentalists are trying to do is ensure that the value that we get from the planet is reflected in the priorities and decisions that are made by politicians, economics and markets, so that we might continue to have freedom of choice. Even if the choice of some of us is to treat the planet with disdain or ignorance.

Sustainability & freedom: the politics of existence

Associating sustainability with a political viewpoint is an eternally frustrating issue that threatens our chances of achieving a sustainable future, why is it so common?

2017 – What are the big sustainability issues?

Business sustainability continues to grow but are you focussing on what’s important? What big sustainability issues should you pay attention to in 2017?

When all around is broken – maintaining optimism for sustainability

Sustainability practitioners need ways to maintain optimism, celebrate small successes but also keep an eye on the scale of change required.

A flourishing future – business models & technologies for sustainability

A flourishing future – what business models and technologies do we need for achieving sustainability?

Context and capitals – the next big things in corporate sustainability

Corporate sustainability must recognise the planet’s limits, sustainable context describes the ‘safe space’ for activities. What does it mean for you?

Our Edie series

We have just produced a series of short, sharp blogs for sustainability practitioners on Edie. Each one provides a bridge between the big ideas and analysis in our Towards 9 Billion book series and the challenges and issues encountered by sustainability professionals in their daily lives. The pieces cover the rise of sustainability context, technology […]

Transformational and incremental change – a false dichotomy?

Incrementalism and transformation are often seen as divergent paths yet they may actually be the long and short term outcomes of the same journey.

Towards 9 Billion books – out now!

Our free Towards 9 Billion books series. Big hopeful, playful ideas for a sustainable, equitable future.

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