Tuesday, May 14 2013
The battle to spawn new names for sustainability is becoming unsustainable, says Peter T. Knight Ever since Gro Harlem Brundtland invented the notion of sustainable development, a coterie of commentators have spent their waking moments trying to devise something sexier that would be more easily understood by the masses: less frightening, more positive. A term [...]
Thursday, May 9 2013
The results of the annual Sustainability Leaders survey from Globescan and SustainAbility are out. They asked 1,170 qualified sustainability experts, unprompted,  which companies they think are leaders in integrating sustainability into their business strategy. Congratulations to  Context clients, Unilever (taking the top spot for the third year in a row) and Interface who made the top 10: [...]
Thursday, May 2 2013
 Context client Centrica’s 2012 Corporate Responsibility Performance Review sets out how the company is balancing what it coins the ‘energy trilemma’- the need to provide a secure supply of energy at affordable cost while moving towards a low carbon society. Highlights include increased customer satisfaction and clearer billing, insulation for around 670,000 homes – saving [...]
Wednesday, May 1 2013
Last weekend’s pursuit by shoppers for the $6 bikini neatly highlights the size of the chasm between consumer and corporate responsibility. As shoppers picked through the dirt cheap merchandise, some of the hands that made the garments lay trapped in the collapsed Bangladeshi building, home to the sweatshops producing cheap clothes  for the wealthy West. [...]
Thursday, April 25 2013
Greenpeace has published its sixth annual Cool IT Leaderboard. Congratulations to Context clients, Cisco (jointly topping the list with Google), HP and Vodafone who made the top 10.
Friday, April 19 2013
Congratulations to Context client Jaguar Land Rover for achieving the highest rating in Business in the Community’s Big Tick awards. The platinum rating, new this year, recognises companies that demonstrate long-term thinking about mega trends such as population growth and resource scarcity, and the contribution their business can make to sustainable economies. Jaguar Land Rover’s latest sustainability [...]
Wednesday, April 17 2013
Corporate Responsibility Magazine have published their list of the top 100 corporate citizens of 2013. Congratulations to all Context clients in the list: Cisco Systems Fedex Hasbro Hewlett-Packard International Paper Life Technologies Lockheed Martin McGraw-Hill Motorola Solutions Pepsico
Monday, April 15 2013
Integrated reporting is still in its infancy, writes Polly Ghazi. But 85 leading global companies are blazing a trail by piloting a model developed by businesses, investors and accounting experts under the umbrella of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC).
Monday, April 15 2013
Stuff your face with fatty food, wash it down with a gulp-sized cola laced with cut-price whisky and spend the rest of the afternoon on the La-Z-Boy brewing a little diabetes. What’s wrong with that? And whose corporate responsibility is it anyway?
Tuesday, April 9 2013
Join our Context Conversation on Google Hangout from 5.30pm BST tonight, watch the live stream below or come back and watch it later.
