What is one thing you will do?

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At his recent public lecture on 'The Business Case for Environmental Sustainability, Professor Dan Fogel asked the audience: What is the one thing you will do as a result of this conversation? Here are the audience's answers.

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Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise

What is one thing you will do as a

result of this conversation?

Answers from the audience at Professor Dan Fogel’s Open Lecture on

‘The Business Case for Environmental Sustainability’19 March 2013

Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise

“As a private investor we focus on bottom line profits. Most private

companies we look at that are involved in environmental sustainable

technologies seem only to survive on Government R&D grants. I will

endeavour to talk more about the technologies or processes with my

investing network. This hopefully will bring interest into this sector.”

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“Push for change in my company. Explore new avenues for corporate

responsibility across key sectors of our business, as

well as promote environmental awareness.”

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“I would like to push for my company to come up with

innovative solutions to become environmentally

sustainable.”

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“Talk to my children. Talk to management about the

importance of sustainability.”

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“Finish the course. Implement the three

strategies we identified during the course in my

business.”

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“Have the conversation about changing the

paradigm.”

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“Use some of the basic principles for finding

solutions in my consultations with organisations thinking

about first steps.”

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“Look up Google YouTube Car – is this for real?”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgQpa1pUUE

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“Try to separate the various aspects of the whole: social,

financial etc.”

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“Explore sustainability systems influencing

resources in commons.”

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“I want to learn more about social environmental

responsibility and apply its principles [to create a]

responsible company and competitive advantage.”

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“I’ll continue to explore two sustainable business and

policy perspectives on local and global scales, and will research the topic of food

labelling.”

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“I’m going to let more people know about volunteering

opportunities.”

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“Design personal, public buildings and transport using

green technologies thus using less energy (carbon).”

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“Broaden my thinking in regard to potential solutions for ecological sustainability.”

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“Research and demonstrate ways that companies can

innovate, to convince others to do the same. Keep

pushing the impossible!”

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“Read more about the actual sustainability performance of

key companies.”

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“Look into biomimicry and find innovative ways to solve

problems.”

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“Leadership related issues and implementation processes to improve

environmental issues from a business and personal level.”

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“Start more conversations on social media and try to

spread ideas, gain ideas and shift a paradigm.”

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“Use it to raise awareness of the lack of sustainability in

agriculture.”

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“Use ideas to change transport policy.”

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“Research more about natural capital valuations and

ecosystems services.”

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“Am going to internally price my own family’s happiness.”

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“Change my share portfolio to reflect sustainable

companies.”

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What will you do?

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