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Last week, while poking around a few dusty corners of the internet, I came across a small business future group which one person had left because of disagreement about the prominence of sustainability in the group\u2019s charter.<\/p>\nLast week, while poking around a few dusty corners of the internet, I came across a small business future group which one person had left because of disagreement about the prominence of sustainability in the group\u2019s charter.<\/p>\n
This is a shame. Those who are facing up to the current challenges in business need to work together to find the solutions, not argue over the relative importance of their preferred approaches.<\/p>\n
Then a post on World Changing<\/a> caught my eye. \u201cThe Two Faces of Economic Reporting\u201d<\/a> points out that last week\u2019s growth in US GDP growth<\/a> was underpinned by the largest drop in personal income for over three years<\/a>.<\/p>\n Whether you classify this as an issue of concerning sustainability, responsibility, society, business, the media, politicians or penguins is neither here nor there.<\/p>\n What does matter is that GDP is a niche indicator, measuring only the amount of money changing hands and nothing else. As the drop in personal income demonstrates, it is not an indicator of the economy\u2019s overall health.<\/p>\n The author of the piece is Clark Williams-Derry<\/a>, the research director for the Sightline Institute<\/a> in Seattle. He goes on to comment:<\/p>\n It’s high time that reporters caught on to the new reality — GDP isn’t much of a bread-and-butter story anymore, and “economic growth” doesn’t mean what we think it does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n All of which begs the question, what should we use to measure our economic health? instead A variety of alternative indicators have been proposed, which one gets your vote?<\/p>\n Post your favourites below and if there\u2019s enough I\u2019ll post an article highlighting them!<\/p>\n Related Posts:<\/strong> Last week, while poking around a few dusty corners of the internet, I came across a small business future group which one person had left because of disagreement about the prominence of sustainability in the group\u2019s charter. This is a shame. 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\nThe Virtue of Conservation<\/a>
\n Morality and Markets: The Depth of our Carbon Footprints<\/a>
\n Three widgets to measure and help your \u2019sustainability bottom line\u2019<\/a><\/p>\nPicture Credit: Gpigraph by Miss Rogue on flickr under Creative Commons Share Alike 2.0<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"