I was a guest at a recent presentation of the 2011 Cone Corporate Responsibility (CR) Opportunity Study and I was impressed by the scope and depth of the research. The study investigates CR across ten countries that combine to form the world’s leading GDPs as well as over half its population. It used more than 10,000 participants, and reached out to local experts from each country to create what may be the largest and most complete global corporate responsibility resource available. And...

Earlier this month, Delta Managementannounced the inaugural Clean 50, a group of committed individuals who have made significant contributions to sustainability or “clean capitalism” in Canada in recent years.  These 50, either...

 My daughter loves Playmobil.  She spends hours constructing and then animating complex scenes and she’s a master at combining parts from different sets to create new structures that aren’t in the well-thumbed Playmobil catalogue.  Except for the unpleasantness of stepping on a rogue piece in the dark or sifting through the dust of the vacuum cleaner bag to recover some special plastic bit,...

It all started the day the world ended. The world as we knew it that is. September 15, 2008, the day Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest investment bank in the modern world, came crashing down. On that day, we began a fast and furious downward debt spiral. Panic set it, fear took over and the rest, as they say, is history.