What comes to mind when you see or hear the words ‘human rights’?

Do you see the brutality and political persecution by other nations, or perhaps the misery and poverty of sweatshops churning out cheap clothes?

Is it the image some politicians, media, and security services paint of terrorists running amok in our country, the bureaucrats of the European Union interfering with our ‘liberty’, or our businesses supposedly crippled with ‘red tape’?

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Tags: Consumerism, Consumption, Greed, Human Rights, Marketing, Morailty, People

Capitalism is not bad.  It seems to have become fashionable to denounce capitalism as the root of all our problems, but the socialist model is just as bad.  Any organization is defined and its culture shaped by its people and the weak ones are driven by greed and the lust for power.

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Tags: Corruption, Economics, Greed, Non Profit, People, Planet, Profit, Social Enterprise

How do you decide when something is too expensive? Are you logical, weighing up the benefits you will gain against the effort (work) it will take to pay for it? Or do you lean toward the more impulsive, eager to possess the next ‘must have’ item.

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Tags: Animal Rights, Corruption, Durability, Environmental Rights, Globalization, Greed, Hidden Costs, Human Rights, Morailty, Nature, Profit, Toxic Chemicals, Transparency, Trust

Modern marketing is about solving problems we don’t have.  And the truth is that retailers and manufacturers have to stop selling us things we don’t need or won’t last; but almost no business is prepared to face this.  Fortunately the solution is actually quite simple and good for business, us, and our planet.

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Tags: Consumption, Happiness, Marketing, Sustainability

When it comes to sustainability most business leaders and politicians pick and choose the bits they like so it doesn’t interfere with their profits or solve the real problems.

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Tags: Consumption, Family Planning, Morailty, Nature, Population, Poverty, Sustainability, Women's Rights

The term ‘Retail Therapy’ was used in 1986 to describe what was wrong with us – using shopping bags to fix our ‘psychic ills’ – but we’ve turned it into a badge of honour! And in 2001 a European survey showed that a third of shoppers have a “high level of addiction to rash or unnecessary consumption”. The ‘cure’ is worse than the illness.

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Tags: Animal Rights, Consumerism, Consumption, Corruption, Economics, Environmental Rights, Human Rights, Nature, Social Enterprise