The primary purposes of Sustainability Matters are to improve the performance of New Zealand organisations from a sustainability, or "triple bottom" line perspective, and to advocate sustainability thinking and action.
Frequently this requires a change from "business as usual" to a different approach which not only reduces costs and improves financial performance but also results in much needed improved outcomes for people and our planet. We owe this to our children and to at least the next six generations i.e. seven generations.
The traditional measure of organisation success - financial outcomes - is an incomplete method of measurement and excludes key elements. These exclusions result in an "unbalanced scorecard".
Is this thinking new? No, far from it. Rachel Carson via her 1962 book "Silent Spring" was perhaps the person who more than any other alerted us to the need for changed thinking.
The thinking can be applied to entities of any size, in any sector, located anywhere.
Newsletters
As part of what we do a newsletter is published (usually) once very two weeks. It is four pages and is intended especially for chartered accountants** and those who use their services. It is distributed to subscribers by opt-in eMail. There is no ($) charge; donations are always welcome! By coincidence the newsletter is called Sustainability Matters.
** Because they have immense potential to influence others and to make huge positive differences to our world.
Sustainability Matters 17th March 2016
• Sustainability Group Events
• State of Nation Report 2016
• Fonterra to Pay Organic Milk Farmers at Market Rates
• Peak Milk: Why Dairying’s Big Dollar Days are Over
• How to Tell Your Sustainability Story
• Updated ISO 14004 Environmental Management Guidance Standard
• Aligning Agendas and Getting on With It
• Stern Warns Economic Models Underestimating Climate Risks
• Analytical Tools for Assessing Business Impacts and Dependencies Upon Ecosystem Services
• NEXT Foundation Invests in Large Conservation Project
• Builder Pre-wires Homes for Solar, EVs
• Maturity and Whole System Thinking
• Go Green Expo – Auckland
• Inaugural Meeting of Financial Stability Board’s Climate Disclosure Task Force
• Missing Element?
• Couple Protect Over 2 Million Acres and Donate Land to the Public
• How Faith-based Organisations Can Evaluate Their Work
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Sustainability Matters 3rd March 2016
• Sustainability Group Events
• Integrated Reporting: Will It Make a Difference?
• Integrated Reporting – Panel Discussion Seminar
• 6 Principles to Catalyse a New Generation of Collaboration for Sustainability
• Quotes of the Week
• Wise Response Strategy Workshop and Public Meeting: How does NZ Move Forward from COP21?
• How Forest Loss Is Leading To a Rise in Human Disease
• Methane Gas and what it Means to USA
• The PM’s 2016 Summer Reading List
• NZ Post Confirms Electric Vehicles as the Way of the Future
• Revolutionising Resource Use – How Your Business Can Benefit from the Circular Economy
• Record Inflow Takes Australian Ethical past $1.4 billion FUM
• The Big Sustainability Shift
• Social Enterprise Workshops
• Talented and Influential Sustainability Experts Sought by Auckland Council
• Soil Testing from the Sky
• What DiCaprio Said at the Oscars
• Case Study: Patagonia’s Circular Economy Strategy
• The Elements of Power by David Abraham
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