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.
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What is one thing you will do?
1. 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
2. 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.”
3. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Push for change in my company.
Explore new avenues for
corporate responsibility across
key sectors of our business, as
well as promote environmental
awareness.”
4. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“I would like to push for my
company to come up with
innovative solutions to become
environmentally sustainable.”
5. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Talk to my children. Talk to
management about the
importance of sustainability.”
6. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Finish the course. Implement the
three strategies we identified
during the course in my
business.”
7. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Have the conversation about
changing the paradigm.”
8. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Use some of the basic principles
for finding solutions in my
consultations with organisations
thinking about first steps.”
9. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Look up Google YouTube Car –
is this for real?”
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10. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Try to separate the various
aspects of the whole: social,
financial etc.”
11. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Explore sustainability systems
influencing resources in
commons.”
12. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“I want to learn more about social
environmental responsibility and
apply its principles [to create a]
responsible company and
competitive advantage.”
13. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“I‟ll continue to explore two
sustainable business and policy
perspectives on local and global
scales, and will research the
topic of food labelling.”
14. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“I‟m going to let more people
know about volunteering
opportunities.”
15. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Design personal, public
buildings and transport using
green technologies thus using
less energy (carbon).”
16. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Broaden my thinking in regard to
potential solutions for ecological
sustainability.”
17. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Research and demonstrate
ways that companies can
innovate, to convince others to
do the same. Keep pushing the
impossible!”
18. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Read more about the actual
sustainability performance of key
companies.”
19. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Look into biomimicry and find
innovative ways to solve
problems.”
20. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Leadership related issues and
implementation processes to
improve environmental issues
from a business and personal
level.”
21. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Start more conversations on
social media and try to spread
ideas, gain ideas and shift a
paradigm.”
22. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Use it to raise awareness of the
lack of sustainability in
agriculture.”
23. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Use ideas to change transport
policy.”
24. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Research more about natural
capital valuations and
ecosystems services.”
25. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Am going to internally price my
own family‟s happiness.”
26. Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
“Change my share portfolio to
reflect sustainable companies.”
