In all the debate about a new responsible revolution – in the articles, on the blogs and on the bookshelf, what has been sorely lacking is the call for creative communication. I missed the confidence, the firm belief that we as the communications industry can make a...
When our children are looking back on the way we did business, it will be as strange a notion as slavery is to us today. How could we be so oblivious to the harm we continue to inflict on people and the planet? Couldn’t we see the icebergs melting or the...
Last Month’s climate talks, COP17, seem light years away. The focus has already tipped from climate headlines to ones dominated by economic recession. The summit’s outcome is best reflected by reframing the the official slogan from “Saving tomorrow today” to “Saving...
Despite a dire economic outlook for the world economy, I’m looking forward to 2012; it’s going to be an exciting and positive year. Countries and companies alike might panic and turn their backs on sustainability, asking with a tremble in their voices: Is...
Dear South African businessmen and women, why so quiet when it comes to COP17 or as the official title reads: the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)? Where’s your advertisement, your support, your...
The silence on COP17 and its unintended lesson for South Africans South Africans have an extraordinary social conscience, says Thomas Kolster, the Danish communications consultant and author of the soon-to-be released book The Bible of Goodvertising (from Thames &...
