What is one thing you will do?

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


“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.”


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

responsibility across key sectors of our business, as

well as promote environmental awareness.”


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

innovative solutions to become environmentally

sustainable.”


“Talk to my children. Talk to management about the

importance of sustainability.”


“Finish the course. Implement the three

strategies we identified during the course in my

business.”


“Have the conversation about changing the

paradigm.”


“Use some of the basic principles for finding

solutions in my consultations with organisations thinking

about first steps.”


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

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





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

financial etc.”


“Explore sustainability systems influencing

resources in commons.”


“I want to learn more about social environmental

responsibility and apply its principles [to create a]

responsible company and competitive advantage.”


“I’ll continue to explore two sustainable business and

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

labelling.”


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

opportunities.”


“Design personal, public buildings and transport using

green technologies thus using less energy (carbon).”


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


“Research and demonstrate ways that companies can

innovate, to convince others to do the same. Keep

pushing the impossible!”


“Read more about the actual sustainability performance of

key companies.”


“Look into biomimicry and find innovative ways to solve

problems.”


“Leadership related issues and implementation processes to improve

environmental issues from a business and personal level.”


“Start more conversations on social media and try to

spread ideas, gain ideas and shift a paradigm.”


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

agriculture.”


“Use ideas to change transport policy.”


“Research more about natural capital valuations and

ecosystems services.”


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


“Change my share portfolio to reflect sustainable

companies.”


What will you do?