Sustainability and Profitability

The Subject is Sustainability...visionary thinking...new ways of doing business

I'll be interviewed tonight at 6 pm Pacific time; http://www.universallearningseries.com/
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Some of the issues we'll be exploring are:

· why is sustainability so important to our survival?
· what are some exaples of visionary leadership?
· what is triple bottom line thinking?
· how does it literally "pay to be good?"
· what suggestions do you have for small businesses?
· how can you instigate "original thinking" in the workplace?

Interview based on The Art of Original Thinking-The Making of a Thought Leader

Excerpts:
To protect the planet or the poor, we must begin to say--convincingly and collectively--that
corporations can profit as they wish, but not at the expense of the environment, of human rights, and of the communities in which they do business. This is not a revolution against corporate tyranny, as was the Boston Tea Party. This is an evolution for corporate consciousness, and it will lead to higher profitability and more goodwill because it is the
right action for this time, and we, as a people, reward actions that hearten us. And we all want to engage in lives and work experiences that are heartening as well.

This is the potential of corporate America--to re-think their structures and processes in such a way that they become furnaces of inspiration, centers of creative ingenuity, arbiters of a culture conscious enough to bring the whole human family into the picture. The profits from such an endeavor--materially, culturally, spiritually--could overwhelm the most skeptic imagination.

Thought leaders do not think in terms of "me" and "mine." They
think in terms of "we" and "ours." They do not think outside the box,
they live outside the box. No matter what their address, they think of
themselves as global citizens, responsible to the earth, responsible to the
human family, and aware that their well-being is tied to the well-being of
others. They are balanced and in tune with their own inner life, and they
are awake to the immense possibilities that erupt when the inner lives
and imaginations of their colleagues are fully engaged.

Comments

[joebhed]

Sustainability can be an empty concept in an economic meaning, unless that concept properly relates to the three basic components of the economy.
Those three parts are natural resources, labor and the means of exchange.
Sorry, its NOT the means of production.
The means of production are just fine. There is something wrong with the means of exchange, and that is the basis of all of our current suffering.

We need a sustainable means of exchange, and therefrom we can have economic stability along with profitability. In order to restore the means of exchange to sustainability, we need a new money system.
We need to abandon and abolish the UNSUSTAINABLE debt-money system of the private federal reserve bankers. No sacred cows.

The present debt-money system creates ALL the new money that is needed AS A DEBT.
So, ALL money comes into existence as a debt that is repayable with interest due that normally requires a repayment in NEW DEBT MONEY of twice the original amount of the loan.
Where does that interest money come from?
From new debt-money.

We need to DOUBLE the amount of debt in order to pay for the new car or TV or lunch for that matter. Double the debt-money and you get another hole in which to throw your future.
Does that sound like today.

SO, begin with the debt-money system.
Replace it with a sustainable and permanent money system.
The Chicago Plan for Monetary Reform.
Economic stability.