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Last week I was in Portland with 150 others at LAUNCH – a collaboration between Nike, NASA, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US State Department that accelerates new solutions for a better world. This was ...

Forum - Blog - Stephanie Draper - 10/05/2013 - 9:23am - 0 comments

In my last post,  I talked about how many firms are using quantified business cases that credibly predict positive financial returns to drive broader, gutsier and often customer-facing sustainability decisions. Such firms recognise that long-term ...

Forum - Blog - Aaron Hay - 15/05/2013 - 6:19pm - 3 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Sally Uren - 02/05/2013 - 9:39am - 0 comments

In recent years, Forum has witnessed an important shift in how many of our partners scrutinise the financial case for sustainability. We’re becoming accustomed to partners asking for advice not on the intangible benefits of a fringe initiative, but ...

Forum - Blog - Aaron Hay - 03/05/2013 - 8:40am - 0 comments

200 years ago, tea cost £100 per pound (about half a kilo). It was so expensive that only the upper class could drink it and they kept it under lock and key, so the likes of you and me couldn’t get their grubby mits on it. Not only that but it helped ...

Forum - Blog - Ann-Marie Brouder - 23/04/2013 - 6:09pm - 0 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Katie Shaw - 18/04/2013 - 10:14am - 0 comments

Let’s start with the paradox. The concept of sustainability is simple – the capacity for continuance. However, the means of achieving this end state is complex and difficult.  As a minimum the journey to sustainability requires businesses to respond ...

Forum - Blog - Sally Uren - 16/04/2013 - 6:36pm - 1 comment

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Green Futures - Article - Anonymous - 15/04/2013 - 3:17pm - 0 comments

How easy do you find it to think about and plan for the future? If like me, English is your mother tongue, you have a good excuse for finding it difficult.  Research  released last week by a Yale behavioural economist has an interesting take on ...

Forum - Blog - Jane Wilkinson - 21/03/2013 - 6:48pm - 0 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Katie Shaw - 26/02/2013 - 10:00am - 0 comments

It was Wednesday morning and the day the new AkzoNobel CEO, Ton Büchner, was announcing their strategic direction. I held my breath as the webpage loaded. Sat on the edge of my seat, my cup of tea left unusually to one side. As I scrolled ...

Forum - Blog - Anna Warrington - 25/02/2013 - 11:08am - 0 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Martin Wright - 28/02/2013 - 2:51pm - 0 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Anonymous - 12/03/2013 - 9:05am - 0 comments

The Indian Companies Bill 2012 (en route to becoming an Act) requires companies worth ₹500 Crore (or just over $9M) to spend at least 2% of their average net profits on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), or report on the reasons why not. This ...

Forum - Blog - Stephanie Draper - 27/02/2013 - 10:44pm - 3 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Anonymous - 22/02/2013 - 1:23pm - 2 comments

The car horns are blaring, the taxi’s stop-starting, and the air is suffused with the delicate scent of diesel. All of which means we’re back in Mumbai, live blogging from a rush hour jam. (If you can’t pound away on your laptop in Indian traffic, ...

Forum - Blog - Martin Wright - 15/02/2013 - 7:47pm - 0 comments

Are consumers rational? Not, it seems, when working out the actual cost of their purchases over the whole lifetime. Consumers buy cheap and then pay later. I was doing some work recently with Ingersoll Rand, one of the world’s leading ...

Forum - Blog - Peter Madden - 24/01/2013 - 2:41pm - 0 comments

You go to the cash machine and decide to look at your balance.  Oh dear.  Overdrawn again.  You make a mental note.  Must stop spending.  More than that, must try to pay back the debt and save up so you don’t end up overdrawn again. ...

Forum - Blog - z.legrand@forum... - 24/01/2013 - 10:40am - 0 comments