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A Momentary Pause For AI Humanity or Why Did I Ask Elise Victor, PhD About John Elkington’s Triple Bottom Line?

July 18, 2025

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What is the link between Dr. Elise Victor's AI Humaniy and John Elkington's Triple Bottom Line?

Flashfood CEO Nicholas Bertram Talks About Customer Loyalty – Do Consumers Really Care About “Planet Impact?”

February 9, 2024

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Beside "planet impact," what do consumers look for in an ESG program?

What Does Sultan Al Jaber, the President of COP28’s 2023 Comments, and John Elkington’s Seminal 1997 Book Have In Common?

December 4, 2023

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EDITOR’S NOTE: here are not one but two separate yet related comments I made on a great LinkedIn post by David Loseby regarding Sultan Al Jabar’s comments that “there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting […]

Frayed Wires: Is The Consumer Market Unplugging From The EV Industry?

November 30, 2023

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“The lithium-ion battery, one of the primary components of an electric vehicle, requires various minerals, including cobalt. However, mining these minerals comes at an ethical, moral, and environmental cost.” Iain Campbell McKenna, Silent Victims: The Moral Cost of Electric Cars (April 12th, 2023) https://bit.ly/3pcqW5f “The stream of used cars heading to West African ports is only expected […]

The Greening of Procurement (Part 2)

November 3, 2011

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The Environmental Connection? What does this mean in terms of environmental considerations?  One might conclude that those organizations that fail to adapt to a new reality and are therefore destined to mediocrity at best or extinction at worst, are less inclined to embrace innovative imperatives such as sustainable capitalism. Others might suggest that the newer […]

The Greening of Procurement (Part 1)

November 2, 2011

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Cannibals With Forks? “In our rapidly evolving capitalist economies, where it is in the natural order of things for corporations to devour competing corporations, for industries to carve up and digest other industries, one emerging form of capitalism with a fork – sustainable capitalism – would certainly constitute real progress.” From Cannibals  With  Forks  – […]

(NEW SEMINAR) Sustainability Facts and Fiction: Linking Green Idealism and Practical Business Application

October 17, 2008

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“In our rapidly evolving capitalist economies, where it is in the natural order of things for corporations to devour competing corporations, for industries to carve up and digest other industries, one emerging form of capitalism with a fork – sustainable capitalism – would certainly constitute real progress.” From Cannibals With Forks – The Triple Bottom […]

The Socially Responsible Procurement Practice: Moving Beyond Social Consciousness (enterprising non-profits Profile)

September 9, 2008

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“The question this raises is quite simply what set of circumstances will elevate green procurement from a nice to do “boutique” status to a more meaningful (and essential) element of a sound purchasing strategy?  At the risk of answering my own question, I do not think that green procurement in and of itself will achieve […]

The Greening of Procurement: How Social Consciousness is Re-Shaping Procurement Practices (White Paper)

April 15, 2008

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What is the key to ESG success? Bridging the gap between sustainable capitalism and sustainable purchasing.