what is one thing you will do?
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At his recent public lecture on 'The Business Case for Environmental Sustainability, Professor Dan Fogel asked the audience: What is the one thing you will do as a result of this conversation? Here are the audience's answers.TRANSCRIPT
Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
What is one thing you will do as a
result of this conversation?
Answers from the audience at Professor Dan Fogel’s Open Lecture on
‘The Business Case for Environmental Sustainability’19 March 2013
Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“As a private investor we focus on bottom line profits. Most private
companies we look at that are involved in environmental sustainable
technologies seem only to survive on Government R&D grants. I will
endeavour to talk more about the technologies or processes with my
investing network. This hopefully will bring interest into this sector.”
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“Push for change in my company. Explore new avenues for corporate
responsibility across key sectors of our business, as
well as promote environmental awareness.”
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“I would like to push for my company to come up with
innovative solutions to become environmentally
sustainable.”
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“Talk to my children. Talk to management about the
importance of sustainability.”
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“Finish the course. Implement the three
strategies we identified during the course in my
business.”
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“Have the conversation about changing the
paradigm.”
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“Use some of the basic principles for finding
solutions in my consultations with organisations thinking
about first steps.”
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“Look up Google YouTube Car – is this for real?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgQpa1pUUE
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“Try to separate the various aspects of the whole: social,
financial etc.”
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“Explore sustainability systems influencing
resources in commons.”
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“I want to learn more about social environmental
responsibility and apply its principles [to create a]
responsible company and competitive advantage.”
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“I’ll continue to explore two sustainable business and
policy perspectives on local and global scales, and will research the topic of food
labelling.”
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“I’m going to let more people know about volunteering
opportunities.”
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“Design personal, public buildings and transport using
green technologies thus using less energy (carbon).”
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“Broaden my thinking in regard to potential solutions for ecological sustainability.”
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“Research and demonstrate ways that companies can
innovate, to convince others to do the same. Keep
pushing the impossible!”
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“Read more about the actual sustainability performance of
key companies.”
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“Look into biomimicry and find innovative ways to solve
problems.”
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“Leadership related issues and implementation processes to improve
environmental issues from a business and personal level.”
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“Start more conversations on social media and try to
spread ideas, gain ideas and shift a paradigm.”
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“Use it to raise awareness of the lack of sustainability in
agriculture.”
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“Use ideas to change transport policy.”
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“Research more about natural capital valuations and
ecosystems services.”
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“Am going to internally price my own family’s happiness.”
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“Change my share portfolio to reflect sustainable
companies.”
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What will you do?