For the Nobel-Prize economist Joseph Stiglitz happiness is just as important as the measure of the economic success, or failure, of a society. For Stiglitz, along with a growing number of serious economists the question is whether a single-minded objective to economic growth has led to governments neglecting other important goals. Goals such as social [...]
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The Measure of National Happiness
Posted in Business, Government, Sustainability, environment, philosophy, psychology on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Summer of 2009 (British Isles)
Posted in environment on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It rained and it rained and rained and rained. The average fall was well maintained.
And when the tracks were simply bogs, it started raining cats and dogs.
After a drought of half an hour, we had a most refreshing summer shower
and then the most curious thing of all a gentle rain began to fall.
Next day was [...]
The Cost of a Lack of Corporate Social Responsibility
Posted in Business, Leadership, environment, management on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In 2006 Trafigura were responsible for the dumping of 400 tonnes of toxic waste from the cargo vessel Probo Koala in the port of Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast. The waste was loaded on to trucks and dumped near the city. Over the following weeks thousands of local people found themselves choking and [...]
Big Business and Lack of Corporate Social Responsibility
Posted in Business, environment, philosophy on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In 1964 Chevron (then Texaco) began drilling for oil in the remote northern region of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Prior to that this pristine rain-forest provided both the physical, spiritual and cultural requirements of the many indigenous inhabitants of the area.
Over the following 25 years or so Texaco made deliberate, cost-cutting operational decisions that resulted in [...]
