Corporate Citizenship

I saw a poster ad this weekend for Tesco mobiles – something along the lines of “A new phone every year – long live the 12-month contract”…
Once I’d got past my surprise that Tesco was now selling phones as well, I couldn’t stop thinking about the implications of the ad… Here was Tesco, encouraging us [...]

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Education has long been an area of strategic community investment for many leading companies and flicking through the CSR reports of the FTSE 100 shows that most firms engage in one way or another with the education agenda. Indeed, this is borne out by our latest London Benchmarking Group (www.lbg-online.net/) data, which shows that of every [...]

It is widely accepted that the causes of climate change are complex and diverse. At the same time, it seems that the mechanisms by which companies are held to account for their contribution to global warming are also proliferating. Alongside green taxes, carbon trading schemes and environmental legislation, business is now facing increasing pressure from [...]

I visited a Beijing suburban market last weekend and came across an organic dairy enterprise called Green Yard that made this claim: ‘we have a wide playground for cows, with mild music that increases their feeling of happiness, and thus enhances the freshness and good taste of the milk.’  
One year on from its milk contamination [...]

 In the city that never sleeps, I’m here to talk sustainability and citizenship to a group of senior Chinese managers.  There’s appetite for the subject, but apathy too. With a business growing at 40% + p.a, it’s hard to convince them that anything other than business as usual is the way forward.  But they also [...]

At the Sustainable Brands conference in Monterery, California in early June the efforts of brands were displaying their efforts to incorporate environmental and social aspects into their marketing. Clorox has created an entirely new line of products, GreenWorks, to attract consumers. Sun Chips has expanded its healthy product positioning and adopted environmental initiatives – solar [...]

The FT is not where you normally find what the Chief Executive of the Australian Rugby Union would call “a statement of the bleeding obvious”.
Yet Tuesday 2nd June was an exception.  The FT had a statement of the bleeding obvious from no less than Dave Hartnett, permanent secretary at the Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. [...]

Who’d have thought it. News of tube strikes in London has reached Shanghai.. Feeling rather blessed that I’m not there, and wonder why the Chinese should care if the Northern line is making lives in London miserable (again). After all, they have their fair share of urban woes to deal with. Not least a crackdown [...]