Business in a Sustainable Society

For those interested in issues such as climate change, social inequity, and the financial crisis, join me in a dialogue to explore the challenges and opportunities associated with sustainability and the role of business in a sustainable society.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Let's Brand Oil Sands as the Ethical Oil Source!

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That's the argument put forth by Ezra Levant in his new book entitled "Ethical Oil" where he compares Fort McMurray to Saudi A...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

WSJ Ignores the Growing Complexity of Corporations in Society

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Recently, the Wall Street Journal published an article outlining the “case against corporate social responsibility” . This was well written...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Africa's Growth Strategy According to McKinsey

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The 2010 World Cup shifted the world’s gaze to Africa. According to many, Africa is considered the final frontier, the last remaining pocket...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Bala Falls Energy Project: Model for Sustainability?

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As a partial resident of Bala, Ontario and admittedly biased, I’ve become familiar with the highly contested Bala Falls Hydro project by Swi...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

Why has the BP gush not scared Canadians off of the oilsands?

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The Toronto Star recently published a rather scathing article on the complacency of Canadians in light of increased US criticism of the oil ...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Canada's Top Performers in CSR: Use of Measures

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Following up from my previous two posts on the Corporate Knights rankings, this final blog discusses in finer detail the methodology Corpora...
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Friday, July 9, 2010

Canada's Top Performers in CSR: Loblaw's False Impression

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In my previous post , I began a series of three blogs on some of the limitations of the highly coveted Corporate Knights ranking of Canadian...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Canada's Top Performers in CSR: Lifting the Veil

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Canadian Based Corporate Knights Research Group recently launched their annual report which ranks Canadian companies according to their comm...
Monday, June 14, 2010

McDonald's Venture into Politics

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McDonald's has been facing a lot of publicity after they launched their commercial in France depicting a young gay consumer talking to h...

BP - The Villain or the Victim?

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The Obama Administration is starting to come down pretty hard on BP, demanding most recently that the company put 'substantial' fund...
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