{"id":1975,"date":"2010-08-29T13:09:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T17:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2010-08-29T13:09:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T17:09:26","slug":"month-8-day-30-ka-ching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-8-day-30-ka-ching\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 8, Day 30: Ka-Ching!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Tribune appears to have discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/ct-biz-0829-eco-stores-20100828,0,5116341.story\">sustainability is good for business.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is mind-boggling is that this epiphany is not rewarded with a resounding, <em>&#8220;Well, duuuuhhhh.&#8221;<\/em>  <\/p>\n<p>But I guess everybody has to start somewhere.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It should not seem counterintuitive that ecologically sensible practices are good business practices as well.  Environmental destruction is the worst possible corporate strategy \u2014 because ultimately all wealth is a function of our relationship to the natural ecosystems of which we are a part. Most contemporary economists assert that infinite economic growth is both possible and desirable, ignoring the fact that we live on a finite planet.\u00a0   As Edward Abbey famously said, <em>&#8220;Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The survival of our economic system is predicated on the survival of our species; even the largest multinational cannot outlast humanity.  That&#8217;s why it makes absolute sense for business to embrace the disciplines of sustainability at every level, whether it&#8217;s implementing a careful recycling policy, adhering to green building practices, or supporting strong legislation to fight global climate change.  Can someone tell the U.S. Chamber of Commerce?<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Tribune appears to have discovered that sustainability is good for business. What is mind-boggling is that this epiphany is not rewarded with a resounding, &#8220;Well, duuuuhhhh.&#8221; But I guess everybody has to start somewhere. It should not seem counterintuitive that ecologically sensible practices are good business practices as well. Environmental destruction is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[160,241],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-economics","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1976,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions\/1976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}