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Article

15 Nov 2005

Author:
John Elkington, co-founder and chair of SustainAbility, and Mark Lee, director of SustainAbility, in Grist magazine

The ebb and flow of corporate eco-consciousness

Increasingly, environmental and social issues present real business risks and opportunities. The real test is whether these business leaders move beyond the blasted-off-my-donkey-by-a-beam-of-green-light phase to work for, lobby for, and invest in genuinely sustainable forms of development... SustainAbility has mapped three great waves of societal pressure impacting government and business since 1960...How do the upwaves and downwaves work? [refers to Wal-Mart, General Electric]