Can China become sustainable?

Tony Manwaring was impressed with the Beijing Olympics and why not?  The magnificent show, was, after all, designed to impress. He also poses the uncomfortable question, for many Western readers,...

The Credit Crunch and Income Inequality

Gandhi said that poverty is the worst form of violence. He was talking about absolute poverty, whereas we now, in the UK and the US, are talking about relative poverty, but the point holds good....

Sustainability communications: walking the talk

We have seen more and more companies develop some form of statement on their environmental and social values, signalling a widespread acknowledgement by the business community of the need to...

A House Divided ... (Follow the money)

Our Mansion House event together with current coverage of discussions in the USA, reminded me of my days as a camp counsellor in America. 'We're the men of Abe' we used to sing, 'And our...

Innovation goes Bananas!

Innovation is difficult to define - it perhaps even defies definition. We may be better off not even trying to. Can innovation be taught? Short answer, no. Can wisdom be bought?...

Comments on the financial crisis

The crisis has been a ‘perfect storm’ i.e. a catastrophe resulting from the coming together of a number of negative factors all driving in the same direction. I am usually TC’s historian so my...

Ubuntu - I am because you are

Ubuntu, a Bantu word, defines what it means to be truly human, and will be the theme of an annual congress being held in South Africa in early 2009, by Rights and Humanity.    Rights and...