Superstorm Sandy and the US Elections: The Social Cost of Political Ignorance?

Hurricane Sandy may have been an untimely event during the course of election campaigning, but it puts the spotlight back on climate change despite collaborative attempts by the presidential candidates to clearly steer off from any debate on it.

The rigorous campaigning by US President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney is about to end in a few hours time. The intensive debates between the Presidential candidates in past few weeks might have ruffled apprehensions on contentious security issues, clarified positions at-length on foreign affairs, and proposed future course of action on creating jobs, but what they collaboratively steered off from speaking on, was climate change.

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Businesses Must Innovate to Become Sustainable

Thoughts-On-Brew

“The business of business is business” – this could have been an apt statement a few decades ago when business leaders were primarily concerned about economic profits. Social responsibility seemed too amorphous a concept that pro-business critics preferred to shrug off their shoulders. The focus was predominantly (and solely) on profits. This business paradigm dominated most of our history that followed the industrial revolution. The plumes of smoke that rose into the air – were considered as harbingers of prosperity and a symbol of success. Nobody thought it relevant to question the limiting factors that circumscribe our natural wealth.

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Sustainability - The key agenda for 2012

Year 2011 sprang unexpected challenges for governance as a whole. Both - Polity and Corporate were seen at the receiving end as people marched onto the streets to vent their anger and frustration against a system that failed to maintain equity.

In the Middle-East, the epicenter of revolutionary protests, unprecedented turmoil prevailed as civilians challenged the might of firmly entrenched dictatorial regimes. The slogan ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam -"the people want to bring down the regime" - echoed throughout the Arab world. As governments in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt fell, it rocked other nations that immediately tightened control over possible uprisings.

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