What does the gender pay gap say about CSR?
A very disturbing report from BusinessGreen (£) on the gender pay gap amongst CSR executives - women earn 23% less than men. To put that in...
Leadership is everything in CSR
Apr 4, 2014
I wrote The Green Executive in 2010 to provide both an inspiration and a manual for the new generation of responsible and progressive business leaders...
All your sustainability/CSR questions answered!
Dec 13, 2013
I've got an exciting new resource for you coming next year - Ask Gareth - a sustainability agony aunt, for want of a better term....
Interview with Tracey Rawling Church, Head of CSR, KyoceraDUK
Nov 6, 2013
The Kyoto Ceramic Company Limited was founded in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed Kyocera in 1982. It has grown into a multinational electronics and ceramics...
Has ‘sustainability’ been devalued? No, just popularised!
Sep 23, 2013
I often see it said in sustainability/corporate social responsibility circles that the terms 'sustainability' and 'CSR' have become diluted and devalued through use/misuse until they...
Are You Creating Wealth or Creating Value?
Aug 19, 2013
At the risk of sounding like a Mark Carney fanboy (yep, second blog in a week), the brand shiny new Governor of the Bank of...
CSR Hits the Headlines (as per usual…)
Aug 12, 2013
What do on-line bullying, zero-hours contracts, on-line porn filtering, the tax affairs of Starbucks, lads mags' covers, the tax affairs of Google, Page 3 of...
Zero Hours and CSR
Aug 5, 2013
Another week, another corporate responsibility issue hits the headlines. This time its the number of workers (up to a million) that are on 'zero-hours' contracts...
Is business evil?
May 6, 2013
Very amusing column from Lucy Mangan in the Guardian at the weekend where a trip to her local independent bookshop threatened to tempt her from...
It’s Time to Forget the Three Pillars of Sustainability…
Mar 20, 2013
We are often told that there are three pillars of sustainability: environment, society and economy, but I say it is time to stop thinking that....