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 July 29, 2010
 The 2007-2009 financial crisis was a perfect "black swan" event: unexpected, a rarity, with broad and deep impacts; and, with the benefit of hindsight, it was also retrospectively rationalised by many "experts". We got it all "sensationally" wrong: bankers (like myself), policy-makers, supervisors, auditors, research analysts, economists, civil society itself. And even as the crisis was unfolding, many initially did not consider its seriousness. We saw dangers of shocks, but underestimated the confluence and impact thereof.  
     

posted by Admin  on March 30, 2009
This briefing assesses the potential to create 'green jobs' through significant public investment in green technology and infrastructure as a key component of stimulus packages - in contrast with the impact of investment in 'brown' jobs or tax cuts.
     

posted by Admin  on February 25, 2010
This is the contents page for the Tomorrow's Company Briefing Documents. You can use the links below to reach the various Documents stored on forceforgood.com. The Tomorrow's Company Briefing Documents are intended to provide the reader with a comprehensive introduction to a particular topic. Please get in touch if you have any ideas for further briefings at admin@forceforgood.com.
     

posted by Admin  on June 24, 2009
This briefing summarises the concept of the triple context – the rationalebehind it, what it means, and why it is of such vital importance.
     

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