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The simplest energy efficiency and renewables actions - taken seriously - can carry us right across 'the energy gap' - in one single bound! There is so much bad news around climate chaos that it is easy to lose heart.  We are so 'hooked' on the belief that we 'need' vast amounts of energy to live decent lives that we all shun tackling the root of the problem.

Increased land fill taxes. Rising energy prices. Emissions taxes. Unpredictable weather.  For most of our lives the environment has been a more or less free resource to be used and abused at will. That situation has changed and that means changes in the way we run our businesses.

We cannot live only for ourselves.  A thousand fibres connect us with our fellow-men, and along those fibres, as sympathetic friends, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Herman Melville

Let us create real value through corporate social opportunity and determined leadership, says Sophie Constance*

Going nuclear or going renewable for our energy requirements is a question of leadership and authenticity.  This fascinating and unusual article explores what we can do to avoid going nuclear and how sustainability is also a question of authenticity.

Working authentically it is not always easy to find venues that are entirely congruent with your purpose or values.  The mainstream conference centres are a no go area and authentic venues are rare and generally involve some level of compromise.  Authentic Guide Rachel Stark went to have a look at an authentic venue with a difference.

Huddinge, in Greater Stockholm, is the first municipality in Sweden to get its own urban walking map. The map will combat increased sedentary living and growing waistlines by encouraging people to get out and walk more. And for planners, highlight the importance of walking as environmentally friendly transport. Hopefully, Huddinge’s 89,000 inhabitants and planning departments will be in better shape and better prepared to meet the effects of rising fuel costs as oil becomes scarcer

The film Mad Max tells of a post-apocalyptic future in which society, because of a scarcity of fundamental resources, has degenerated into a self-destructive brawl. While this cult favourite is a work of fiction, it may soon be fact: all without the need for a nuclear explosion as the catalyst.

If you hate numbers, but want to get your head round climate change… to make the whole thing add up… here are some simple sums to give some scale to your thinking.

Authentic businesses flourish at a size and in markets where conventional rivals flounder. Why is this? What enables these businesses to make a profit where others cannot; to grow where others shrink, to fly were others fall? And how might this apply to other businesses or organisations? Having worked with authentic businesses for three years and written about them in his new book – Authentic Business, how to create and run your perfect business, Neil Crofts thinks he knows the answers.