It was a sold out crowd at the Commonwealth Club last night for my talk
on 'Business and Sustainability: Risk, Fiduciary Responsibility and the
Laws of Nature.' (See the summary below.)
I used the occasion to present the Sustainable Business - Declaration
of Leadership that I wrote recently (thanks to the sponsorship of StopWaste.Org).
You can download the 50k PDF here. Check back next week for
downloadable audio (it needs a little editing first - any suggestions
of Macish audio editing software?), a for large format poster
version.
Here's the Declaration (thanks, Joel,
for prodding me to post this):
Sustainable Business - A Declaration of Leadership
Because:
we are committed, as business and community leaders, to the well being
of both economic and ecological systems, of both humans and other
living things,
compatible (and where they seem to be incompatible, we are committed to
finding better ways to do business that make them compatible).
We envision our company, suppliers and customers, and our community doing business in ways that:
preserve, protect and ultimately enhance the living systems -- of this
region, and the planet -- that sustain our business and the larger
human economy
To do this we will:
analyze the life cycle operating costs and impacts of our facilities,
operations and products/services, as well as their initial costs
work to eliminate "waste" of all kinds from our operations, and to find
safe, productive uses for any "non-product" that we are not yet able to
eliminate
design our facilities, operations and products/services to be ever more
efficient, ever less dependent on materials and activities that poison,
degrade or encroach on living systems, and ever more supportive of
these approaches
We will measure our progress by the trends of our
We will pursue these steps with a commitment to
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