Harnessing business power for sustainability

How pioneering business billionaires are resetting their companies’ relationship to nature, society, and our common future creating sustainable prosperity and reveals us how to balance business needs with impact on nature, shareholders with stockholders, and short-term vs Long-term profits. Strategies for addressing the negative externalities and trade-offs  that arise from doing business, identifying the right metrics and targets to deliver on your purpose, and accounting for human, social and natural capital, alongside financial capital. A must-read book for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers at companies around the world. Luc Hoffman, heir to the Roche Pharmaceutical group shows us how business … Continue reading Harnessing business power for sustainability

Seductive pursuit of beauty myth: Ladies in black knickers, corsets, cosmetics

Are you in front of the dressing table history, a place where your dreams come true, doubts, self-harm and hopes. Who determines which shape is currently “all the rage”? How to custom, colour, class and sex fit into the picture/ Virginia Nicholson explains how advances made by feminism collided with the changing shape of desirability. The pain is Gladys’s botched surgery on her nose, Dorothy, whose skin colour lost her an Oscar, Beccy who took slimming pills and died, and the radioactive corsets. The New Women who discovered freedom by bobbing their hair, the boyish, athletic “ Health and Beauty” … Continue reading Seductive pursuit of beauty myth: Ladies in black knickers, corsets, cosmetics