As the world plummeted into global recession in 2008, one bank showed that one way to make a bank economically sustainable is to make it environmentally and socially sustainable: Triodos Bank. Continue reading →
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The immoral aspects of greed, selfishness and short-term profit thinking are just some of the causes that have been proposed as the root core of current recent financial crisis. Many of the growth challenges that are being discussed right now are not new. We can go 20, 30, 40 years back in time to find warnings and revelations of the flaws in our current systems’ design. The big question is: will we be able to move beyond the already familiar boom-and-bust cycle? Continue reading →
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Al Gore,
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economic and social value creation,
G20 warning,
Green Economy,
Green New Deal,
NEF,
Occupy Wall Street,
paradigm shift,
sustainable growth
With today’s resource scarcity and skyrocketing social imbalances, how we determine and measure growth is becoming a critical issue. In The New Pioneers I focus on three sustainable growth principles. One of them is the principle of immaterial growth, reflected in concepts like the Triple Bottom Line and Gross National Happiness. Continue reading →
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economic and social value creation,
European Commssion Beyond GDP,
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GNH,
GNP,
gross national happiness,
Hazel Henderson,
Human Development Index (HDI),
immaterial growth,
paradigm shift,
Senator Robert Kennedy,
simon kuznets,
three pillars of sustainability,
triple bottom line
There is an increasing gap between what mainstream business models and economic systems promote and nurture and what we value and need as human beings. Most companies still measure growth in terms of turnover, a country’s wealth is still measured … Continue reading →
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European Commssion Beyond GDP,
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qualitative growth,
quality of life indicators,
Sarkozy measures social progress,
social costs positive GDP contributors
