CONTENTS
In this issue
COVER
STOR
INFORM
Y
05 ❘ Idle Thoughts
CONTRIBUTORS
06 ❘ Corporate responsibility
07 ❘ Built Environment
Mike Cartwright
08 ❘ Waste
As business to business
director at the DIY retail
09 ❘ Transport
chain B&Q, Mike analyses 22
the impact of the 1 April
10 ❘ Pollution control
legislation stating that only
timber that originates from
independently verified, legal
11 ❘ Corporate strategy
and sustainable sources can
be bought for use on UK
12 ❘ Finance
government property (p17)
13 ❘ The Peter McManners Column
14 ❘ Policy Tracker
30
20 28
❘ Diary
31 ❘ The Green Mondays Column
32 ❘ Market Intelligence
Paul Ruyssevelt
REGULARS
As businesses gear up for
next year’s Carbon
17 ❘ Analysis
Reduction Commitment,
Mike Cartwright from B&Q considers
Camco International’s
the new rules that say only timber from
strategic projects director
considers whether the new
legal and sustainable sources can be
legislation will be a millstone
bought for use on government property
35
or a golden opportunity for
those organisations it will
18 ❘ Leaders third of what they were last July. But,
affect (p25) Tom Idle talks to the director of plant write David Strahan and Gary Kendall,
science at confectioners Mars about this has little bearing on the future of
the company’s ambitious targets for its energy prices or the drastic steps
entire cocoa supply chain businesses will need to take as the
DON’T MISS...
wells run dry
32 ❘ Market Intelligence
Sustainable Business –
25 ❘ Carbon Reduction Commitment
35 ❘ Notes from Selsdon Next year, the CRC comes into force.
The Event preview
But will it be a millstone or a golden
supplement
FEATURES
opportunity for organisations? Paul
Full conference details
Ruyssevelt gives some advice
of the inaugural event 20 ❘ Interview Pooran Desai
at Sustainabilitylive! The founding director of sustainable 26 ❘ Communications strategy
development charity BioRegional thinks With CSR withstanding the recession,
government policy lacks clarity of companies need to stay alert to
leadership. And, he says, most people greenwash, writes Kate Sturley
think the Code for Sustainable Homes is
a real mess. Erik Jaques reports 28 ❘ Carbon reduction
Free with
We have the technology to overcome our
22 ❘ Cover story global food and energy crises but we need
this issue
How to cope with the oil crisis to decentralise society, writes Jon Elms in
of SB
Oil prices have plummeted to less than a this award-winning essay
Sustainable Business ❘ May 2009 3
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