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Autumn 2007

Sod the Choos choose the SOD

Retail therapy is an acceptable way for a gal to let off some steam and indulge herself.

The icy side of enviromental advocacy

When Lewis Gordon Pugh was growing up, none of the famous landmarks of the planet had been swum.

Changing places

Behind a colourful South African beading project is the talented, patient, and outspoken Mathapelo Ngaka Mathapelo Ngaka, 32, has walked a long road from her days selling sweets outside Woodstock station in Cape Town to being a co-director and founder of the award-winning nonprofit organisation, Monkeybiz.

Changing

Brenda Nkuna

Social entrepreneur awards South Africa.

Chosen for “finding dynamic new solutions which are critically needed to improve the country’s problem solving capacity on key issues such as skills development and service delivery”, the finalists in the Social Entrepreneur Awards stand a chance to rub shoulders with world leaders at the next World Economic Forum in Davos.

Social

Sheryl Ozinsky

Putting your best foot forward

It’s not just the big corporations that contribute to global warming.

Putting

Craig Simmons

The business of footprints

Large retailers such as Marks & Spencer and Tesco have started measuring carbon along their supply chains and labelling carbon emissions on individual products with the aim of reducing the carbon impacts of their entire operation.

THE

Simon Miller

The consensus man

Anglo-American boss Sir Mark Moody-Stuart reflects on Africa, corporate standards and the future of globalisation.

THE

Judy Kuszewski

Sustainability as competitive advantage

Can market forces come to the aid of a sick planet? The grudging realisation by business – that it operates within a larger system whose biophysical laws limit its expansion – has taken a long time.

Sustainability

Hugh Tyrrell

The real cost of economic growth

The economy is run by economists who are swayed by figures and facts.

THE

Peet Du Plooy

In the search of the Global Compact

South Africa‘s adoption of the UN‘s Global Compact – which encourages big business to adopt socially responsible practices – has been slow.

ESS

Andre Fourie

Resisting the green religion

Poverty is the biggest threat to the environment and business is the only way to generate wealth.

Resisting

Andrew Kenny

Developing value

The economic sense in creating business strategies incorporating environmental and social concerns is increasingly apparent for companies operating in developed markets.

Developing

Jodie Throrpe

The business case for sustainability

With so much evidence of the potentially devastating effects of climate change – and a large portion of the culpability apportioned to business – business is under pressure to be more socially and environmentally responsible.

THE

Monica Graaff