Environment & Energy category comprises all aspects of an area of major 21st century challenge and opportunity.
Texas environmental leadership.
These are not words–or concepts–that one anticipates finding together these days.
But no… this is not a headline from the Onion.
It’s real. It’s important. And it may hold lessons for the new world of 21st century leadership.
Environmental Leadership Begins With Each of Us.
For the week of Earth Day, Serve to Lead includes three posts on the evolution of 21st century environmental leadership. Your comments and contributions are encouraged.
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Amid the ever rising, discordant, disconnected, coursing invasion of voices and information and interpretations competing to engage our consciousness 24-7, it’s ever more difficult to achieve perspective.
Are we surprised that people retreat to various explanatory ideologies to impose some order… or perhaps, a surcease, a rationalization for disengagement?….
Our evolving environmental consciousness exemplifies the challenge of achieving understanding in our highly connected age.
Earth Day week is an apt moment to make note of some of the spectacular changes underway.
Undertake a thought experiment:
–What issues before us now will appear most consequential fifty years hence?
–What questions that appear to us to be settled, entirely beyond debate, will be viewed as erroneous in the future?
–What issues are taboo, kept from discussion, that will be viewed as central, in the longer view?
What follows are a series of observations and questions intended to stir thought–and spur action.
Environmental Leadership Begins With Each of Us.
For the week of Earth Day, Serve to Lead includes three posts on the evolution of 21st century environmental leadership. Your comments and contributions are encouraged.
###
Amid the ever rising, discordant, disconnected, coursing invasion of voices and information and interpretations competing to engage our consciousness 24-7, it’s ever more difficult to achieve perspective.
Are we surprised that people retreat to various explanatory ideologies to impose some order… or perhaps, a surcease, a rationalization for disengagement?….
Our evolving environmental consciousness exemplifies the challenge of achieving understanding in our highly connected age.
Earth Day week is an apt moment to make note of some of the spectacular changes underway.
Undertake a thought experiment:
–What issues before us now will appear most consequential fifty years hence?
–What questions that appear to us to be settled, entirely beyond debate, will be viewed as erroneous in the future?
–What issues are taboo, kept from discussion, that will be viewed as central, in the longer view?
What follows are a series of observations and questions intended to stir thought–and spur action.
Environmental Leadership Begins With Each of Us.
For the week of Earth Day, Serve to Lead includes three posts on the evolution of 21st century environmental leadership. Your comments and contributions are encouraged.
###
Amid the ever rising, discordant, disconnected, coursing invasion of voices and information and interpretations competing to engage our consciousness 24-7, it’s ever more difficult to achieve perspective.
Are we surprised that people retreat to various explanatory ideologies to impose some order… or perhaps, a surcease, a rationalization for disengagement?….
Our evolving environmental consciousness exemplifies the challenge of achieving understanding in our highly connected age.
Earth Day week is an apt moment to make note of some of the spectacular changes underway.
Undertake a thought experiment:
–What issues before us now will appear most consequential fifty years hence?
–What questions that appear to us to be settled, entirely beyond debate, will be viewed as erroneous in the future?
–What issues are taboo, kept from discussion, that will be viewed as central, in the longer view?
What follows are a series of observations and questions intended to stir thought–and spur action.
The Washington Post has editorialized in support of a promising “breakthrough” on fracking. Several national environmental groups have joined with major energy companies to establish an independent consortium to craft rules for shale development in the Appalachian region.
There are several noteworthy aspects to this announcement.
credit | new york times
As recounted in a memorable New York Times obituary, activist Rebecca Tarbotton was notably effective in persuading corporate boards to make business changes that would benefit the environment.
Her example as a 21st century leader may extend her legacy even further.
credit: usgreenchamber.com
California today embarks upon its landmark cap-and-trade program for carbon emitters. This would be newsworthy at any time. It’s all the more important now, because the lamentable mishandling of the cap-and-trade issue in Washington in recent years has taken the concept off the menu of federal policy options for the time being.
Also this week, a prospective breakthrough in the budget cliff debates in Washington is emerging–one which could recast America’s energy and environmental future.
Professor Joel A. Mintz, of Nova Southeastern University Law School has written an informative and important book: Enforcement at the EPA: High Stakes and Hard Choices.
This comprehensive, highly readable volume holds value for anyone concerned with environmental improvement in the United States, the evolving role of law enforcement, and 21st century public administration.
Is Apple Still Thinking Different?
My friend Professor Gregory Unruh of Thunderbird School of Global Management has written a fine post for Harvard Business Review: “Apple and the ‘Little Dutch Boy’ Strategy.”
Professor Unruh suggests that Apple is behaving like the “Little Dutch Boy,” temporarily plugging the dyke of rising stakeholder CSR expectations with a finger.
The post raises a series of points worthy of reflection.
