Summary
Move your cursor over the forceforgood logo at the top of the home page and you will see that it says 'forceforgood = business success + sustainability'.  So we think sustainability is a key organising concept and a pivotal component in determining what this site is all about and what we are trying to achieve.

 

Throughout forceforgood.com you will find content that touches on or focuses on sustainability: from the recognition of the rights of Nature in Ecuador's constitution, to discussions on how to monetize externalities and calculate the economics of Biodiversity, from the threat to various species and the Artic Ice to the opportunity of creating value through new products and services that meet needs, secure business success and contribute to sustainability outcomes.

                      

You will also see some challenge to the way sustainability is used - too often perhaps implying the need to return to an agrarian past and implied utopia, all too readily used in a way which fails to acknowledge the importance of the innovation that we would argue represents such a powerful dynamic, and therefore needs to be channeled and harnessed, but cannot be wished away or repressed.

 

Fundamentally, however, we need to come to terms with the need for 9 billion people to be able to live together on a basis of equity, inclusion and fulfillment on our one shared planet - and however you define it, to live sustainably.

 

Tony Manwaring, Chief Executive, Tomorrow’s Company

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posted by Admin  on October 5, 2011
‘Learning from nature – the new agenda for business success: a Tomorrow’s Natural Business Conference’ This event will focus on how businesses can succeed in an increasingly challenging climate.  Businesses will learn from the resilience and sustainability of nature to survive unpredictability.  The day promises to be inspirational and exciting with keynote addresses, high quality panels and practical workshops.
     

posted by Paul   on September 21, 2011
The following eulogy was delivered by Paul Hawken at a memorial service honouring Ray Anderson held in Atlanta on August 11, 2011.
     

posted by David  on July 18, 2011
In 1944, FD Roosevelt proposed a new Bill of Rights.  Due to his untimely death it was never progressed.  Perhaps it is time to pick up his ideas once again. 
     

posted by Csr  on June 20, 2011
A brilliant commencement by Paul HawkenYou are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation… but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement.Basically, the earth needs a new operating system, you are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades.
     

posted by Admin  on June 6, 2011
 In November 2009 AISEC along with Kairos Futures conducted a survey of over 3,000 young people from around 122 countries about their views on climate change. The results were telling. 73% of respondents believe climate change to be a greater threat to society than the war or terrorism, and nearly all see their main responsibility as being to leave the world in better shape than their parents did. Here is a run down of their findings.
     

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