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Browsing by Subject "Green Capitalism"

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    Sustainable Development: What is it, Why Care, and How can Korean businesses Profit from it?
    (Pusan National University, 2007-11) Andregg, Michael M.
    This is a 26 slide PowerPoint presentation on Sustainable Economic Development that accompanied the 11 page academic paper on same presented at the same South Korean Universities and trade associations.
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    Sustainable Development: What is it, Why Care, and How can Korean businesses Profit from it?
    (Pusan National University published this in South Korea, in Korean language, but I do not know where, 2007-11) Andregg, Michael M.
    Sustainable Development: What is it, why care, and how can Korean businesses profit from it? Prepared for Pusan National University, Republic of Korea, November, 2007 By Michael Andregg, University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA mmandregg@stthomas.edu (This text accompanies a Power Point of 26 slides, or it can stand alone.) Sustainable Development means growing things, including wealth, in the natural way, for the long term, efficiently, without destroying natural resources, realizing profits without consuming your natural and human capital. But what do those things mean? The best book I know on these topics is “Natural Capitalism” by Paul Hawken, Amory and L. Hunter Lovins (1). So we will begin by discussing natural capital, human capital, and how they relate to growing wealth. All businesses are familiar with financial capital and how money helps businesses grow. Enlightened businesses are also familiar with human capital, the qualitative aspects of one’s workforce in terms of knowledge, skills, enthusiasm, loyalty, hard work ethics, and so forth. Although business routinely uses human capital to transform natural resources into the products that they sell, relatively few businesses are familiar with natural capital, the accumulated stock of resources and living systems that provide essential services to our earth, like turning carbon dioxide into oxygen and fixed carbon, or purifying the water we all depend on for life, and so forth. Because those services are taken for granted in today’s world, they have no established price or value. Until, for example, previously free, clean water becomes unavailable. After that, clean water can be sold at prices higher than oil, because humans can live without oil, but we cannot live without water. Hawken and the Lovins couple concluded that: “Actually, an economy needs four types of capital to function properly: -- human capital, in the form of labor and intelligence, culture and organization, -- financial capital, consisting of cash, investments, and monetary instruments, -- manufactured capital, including infrastructure, machines, tools, and factories, -- natural capital, made up of resources, living systems, and ecosystem services.”