To Harvest Green Business, Feed Eco Incentives to the Decision Makers
May 7, 2012 1 CommentIncentive-based pay isn't new; it's been around for centuries. Ship captains transporting prisoners from England to Australia were once rewarded, not on passenger counts, but on how many survived the journey. Nowadays with major companies, it's usually linked to financial performance. But unless companies begin to connect compensation to sustainable environmental and social performance, they will ...
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What Conclusions Can We Draw From Tesco Dropping its Carbon Footp ...
February 4, 2012A week ago, the Guardian published the news that the Tesco grocery store chain dropped its plan to put a carbon label on all of its products. I felt a little sorry for the carbon trust, but I wasn't surprised at all. Why? Because I didn't expect a true commitment to sustainability from Tesco in the first place. In this article, I tell you why, and I explain the possible conclusions you can draw from this. 1. Protected by Oligopoly, Supermarket Chains Will Never Foster Sustainability Like all the players in the oligopoly of the supermarket business, the Britain-based multinational grocery ret...
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Key Elements for your Sustainable Social Media Strategy
August 26, 2011 4 CommentsFrom a corporate perspective, the relevance of Social Media within a Sustainability Strategy has been rising step by step over the last years. Undeniably, the world wide web has emerged to version 2.0. In former times, it used to be an instrument that is mainly used for providing information to the public or specific audiences – Whereas today, it rather consists of a relevant path to start and maintain a dialogue with internal and external stakeholders. Hence, modern companies are constantly changing their one-way communication to a more dialogue-based approach. Focusing this challenge in ...
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