Tallberg, Sweden(A)
Thursday, September 1st, 2005“How on Earth Can We Live Together?”
“How on Earth Can We Live Together?”
CSR is, fundamentally, all about long-term prosperity.
Drought, Thieves in the Night, and Thirsty Lawyers
In early December of 2004, newly arrived in Sweden from the United States, my husband and I made our way through an airport terminal to the Arlanda Express commuter train, which carried us about twenty miles to Stockholm Central Station. In Central [...]
You’re a foul one, Mr. Grinch
We won’t be invisible; we won’t travel back in time.
This fall, the presidential election dominates the news. It is painful to watch character assassinations and ridiculously simplistic reductions of complex issues in a media designed for sound bites. But for a couple of weeks my husband and I are in the mountains of Vermont, hiking the hills, biking, and kayaking and blessedly isolated from [...]
“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!”
Companies and their stakeholders are taking hard looks at their environmental and social impacts, discussing those impacts with stakeholders and publishing the results. There are many, many companies that have not taken this step, but the momentum we’ve gained is incredible for fifteen short years.
In today’s world, it’s widely agreed that stealing is not only illegal but immoral. We are attacking the obvious cases of stealing in the corporate world with gusto, sending hapless perps up the river as an example that corruption doesn’t pay. But there’s a kind of subtle corruption in the way the big banks treat ordinary, middle class people who just want to achieve the American dream, but do not understand that they are being pushed to the edge of financial disaster on purpose.