OK, we've all learned that "at the end of the day" starting a business requires funding. Which is why we buy into the notion of "Social capitalism".

I usually don't give a sustainability report much of a plug here, but this might be worthwhile mentioning: Henkel not only receives regular laurels within the German CSR-community for their reporting, but does so as well internationally now, see their

Recent statistics point out that approx 1.3 billion people have access to the internet.

It's all very well that most companies by now claim to report along the guidelines of GRI. However, even the ones that indeed do so (there are a few hundreds that only claim but are not approved) seem to get some problems with this.

It's one of those interdisciplinary questions still unanswered: If you have 50 people on above issue in the room, there'll be 45 of them ICT-people - that is, at least, when you're attending the annual AAAS conference in Boston.

After this blog had been dormant or link-rolling for a while, we would like to give it a go again. While doing this, let me apologize for any comments that had been omitted - with hundreds of spam messages each week, I might have overlooked a few comments on older posts.

... so that was that. The loudest SOS in history. Funny though: Was it reality, or is/was it already a film? Just seconds after Sting's "message in a bottle" closed the show, the credit roll started running over the screen. Live cinemating and with a "copyright" sign at the end. Had no-one advised Al Gore on Copyleft, then? So let me finish for today with linking to the friends from dropping knowledge.

Good news - the IFC/Philips project (see IFC+Philips, a presentation from a 2005 Ethical Corporation conference) takes off now: bogolight!

It's actually worthwhile to stop for a second and remember that poverty and climate change are intrinsically linked. As we have seen, World Bank, IMF and lots of UN efforts are not producing results on eradicating poverty and in creating sustainable livelyhoods. That's not a criticism against them, but rather against their role as being a political football (thanks to Michael Hopkins for that term) in a game that still has too many bad actors, bad governments and of, course, bad business.