‘The Chinese Miracle Will End Soon’

WorldChanging.com reports on Der Spiegel’s ‘astounding interview with Pan Yue, Deputy Director of China’s State Environmental Protection Administration.’ We are using too many raw materials to sustain this growth. To produce goods worth...

CSR reporting and corporate performance

My New Bottom Line article this month looks the growing trend to corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting — more than 2500 companies worlddwide — and company performance, and asks ‘How closely are they correlated?’ It turns out that the...

Turning problems into profit centers

Another gem relayed by Good For Business, this one via the Wall Street Journal: There are 26 doctors on staff at Quad/GraphicsĂ–internists, pediatricians and family practitioners that comprise a critical department within one of America’s largest printing...

EcoCement eats CO2

[Good For Business]: By blending magnesium oxide and conventional cements, TecEco’s environment-friendly cement uses one of the earth’s most abundant elements, lessens the need for burning fossil fuels, and forms clean, strength-giving minerals that can...

Factor Ten

My ‘Sustainability Sundays’ post at WorldChanging this week is about Factor Ten, and the call for a 10x improvement in resource productivity from our present primitive state. (Factor Ten is increasingly important in Europe, under-noticed in the US —...