CSR Guide for Multinational Corporations in China

Prosperity with Integrity China’s remarkable development has been accompanied by considerable consequences for public and worker health, environmental protection, and social development, resulting in increasing demands from government and the public for improvement. Whether an act of leadership or follow the leader it is prudent for companies, international and domestic, to respond to these calls …

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The War against the Environment

There is a disturbing campaign by right-wing politicians and oil and gas promoters to stifle legitimate debate about resource development and impacts on public health, climate and the environment.  With growing intensity they are attacking the environmental movement with accusations of funding from nefarious foreign interests seeking to undermine Canada’s national economic interests. So claimed …

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Caribou and Jobs – Victims of Failed Forest Management

Michael Bloomfield & Robert Bateman Now may be our last chance to save forest-dwelling caribou in BC. Truth is vital to making good decisions and those like the Financial Post who cry “caribou protection policies could wreak widespread economic carnage across Canada “not only seek to mislead but to impede action on species at risk and meeting our …

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Society’s Return on Investment: The Cult of What’s In It For Me Deepens

Over the past 35 years I have been a pioneer in promoting greater cooperation on environment and development among business, government and civil society. Far from naivete mine was a hard-nosed, practical strategy to blunt the single minded pursuit of money at the expense of public health, social justice and the natural world.  Capitalism has …

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Hello World! Introducing your 21st Century Seer.

Over the past 40 years I have campaigned for a more humane, peaceful and environmentally responsible world. While there has been some progress greed and shortsightedness have brought us to this moment of reckoning where every biological system is in decline and tribalism is on the rise. This blog will inform, entertain and provoke as …