In a message dated 6/28/02 6:09:08 AM, [email protected] writes: << It seems to me that a related possible winning strategy, which could be positioned as not inimical to anyone's interest, is to change the way we keep score: to work toward a situation where the environmental effects of our actions are not "off balance sheet" but are in fact mandated on the books of corporations and play a direct part in determining the bottom line - which in turn determines behaviour (put another way, I can imagine a "novum organum" in which debits and credits reach beyond the proverbial wall and window to include the whole outdoors!).
>> Winston-- I'm a big proponent of changing the game by changing the rules--and it is useful to change the incentives as well. Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream does something like this, considering environmental effects and the need for jobs in a community when finding a site for a new facility. And their corporate accounts have two "bottom lines"--one for profits and one for contribution to the community. Joelle * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
