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Transforming the business case for sustainability

In a business context it’s often been necessary to justify why sustainability is important with a business case. While it gets less visibility now, it’s still common to see the symptoms of not having a good business case, or one that’s not widely implemented.

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.

Cost or value? Why is sustainability strategically undervalued?

The business case for sustainability is (shockingly) still either not recognised strategically (i.e. it is understood as an additive factor for operational efficiency or marketing/PR but not as a strategic value creation/destruction factor), or in many cases it is little understood at all.

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.

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?

Build a sustainable business – on strategic resilience

VIDEO – Building strategic resilience through sustainable business practice starts with understanding the risks and dependencies of the business within the context of a changing world.

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?

Towards 9 Billion books – out now!

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

Reinventing the Weal – Exploring the Commons (Part 2)

Preserving and enhancing Global Commons will require changes to systems of law, economics and ownership – an overview of existing and new ideas.

Questions for a sustainable world

Unless we ask the big questions, we won’t find the answers which meet the scale of the challenge we face.

Against a dark background – the limits of certainty

A sustainable future depends upon our ability to perceive the limits of certainty, and to embrace the uncertainty that has always been there.

Utility – the fundamental metric of social impact

Defining and delivering true social utility requires a fundamental perspective and approach to assessing the purpose of enterprise in the first place.

Traffic Jams – the manifest will of the people?

The mass effect of individual actions can produce an outcome at odds with the original intent of those decisions. Is this the manifest will of the people?

Its not you, its we: why values alone aren’t enough for a sustainable world

Allowing the values we hold to be expressed through action should not be a matter of guilt. Sustainability will come when we turn the tide.

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