Sustainability Leadership
I received a few interesting responses to my last blog posting so I thought it may be fun to keep the dialogue going. The comments I received are pretty consistent with what I hear from many friends and colleagues here in the Bay Area – namely that companies need to be regulated in order to really take progressive, proactive action on social, environmental and labor issues. In particular, I believe most folks feel that companies need regulation to take meaningful action on global warming via hard-hitting new regulation on energy usage and GHG emissions reduction. While I think there is some truth to the fact that companies do need to be “motivated” by regulation (a.k.a. the “cattle prod approach”), I also see companies taking proactive steps independent of regulations, and I think that this should be acknowledged. I also think that such proactive steps if/when taken for the right reasons represent our best shot at truly meaningful, lasting, long-term change.
