From one cause to another...
Chris Macrae informs me that a key sustainability thinker in corporate life, Ray Anderson, Chairman of Interface Inc and featured in the documentary and book The Corporation is giving a lecture at the RSA:
Lecture | 05 May 2005 18.00 | London & South East
Manifesto Challenge: Moving Towards a Zero Waste Society
Tickets are free and you can sign up online (after registering).
Here an extract that Chris sent me from the corporation:
But he [Anderson] now rejects as dangerously limited the beliefs he once shared with the large majority of business leaders "that nature is unlimited, the earth...a limitless resource for raw material, a limitless sink into which we can send our poisons and waste";" that the relevant timeframe is my lifetime, maybe my working life, but certainly not more than my lifetime"; and that the market's invisible hand will take care of everything. The market alone cannot provide sufficient constraints on corporations penchant to cause harm, Anderson now believes because it is "blind to...externalities, those costs that can be externalized and foisted off on somebody else".
Should be a very interesting lecture.
Posted by Paul Goodison at February 24, 2005 09:03 AM | TrackBack