Comments on: Seriously people, the correct order is planet first, then people, then profit. http://greenmonk.net/seriously-people-the-correct-order-is-planet-first-then-people-then-profit/ Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down Wed, 23 May 2012 15:02:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: SAP’s new Sustainability Performance Management tool could be a real game-changer! http://greenmonk.net/seriously-people-the-correct-order-is-planet-first-then-people-then-profit/#comment-7769 SAP’s new Sustainability Performance Management tool could be a real game-changer! Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:33:12 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=1434#comment-7769 [...] SAP regularly in discussions around sustainability make the point that while their carbon footprint of almost 500,000 tonnes per annum is significant, the combined footprint of their clientbase is 10,000 times their own! SAP are taking the line that while it is important for SAP to reduce their own emissions, helping reduce their clients carbon footprint could produce a far better long-term planetary outcome. As long as companies remember that, as I have said before, the correct order is Planet first, then People, and then Profit. [...] [...] SAP regularly in discussions around sustainability make the point that while their carbon footprint of almost 500,000 tonnes per annum is significant, the combined footprint of their clientbase is 10,000 times their own! SAP are taking the line that while it is important for SAP to reduce their own emissions, helping reduce their clients carbon footprint could produce a far better long-term planetary outcome. As long as companies remember that, as I have said before, the correct order is Planet first, then People, and then Profit. [...]

]]> By: SAP’s new Sustainability Performance Management tool could be a real game-changer! — GreenMonk: the blog http://greenmonk.net/seriously-people-the-correct-order-is-planet-first-then-people-then-profit/#comment-7765 SAP’s new Sustainability Performance Management tool could be a real game-changer! — GreenMonk: the blog Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:29:08 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=1434#comment-7765 [...] SAP regularly in discussions around sustainability make the point that while their carbon footprint of almost 500,000 tonnes per annum is significant, the combined footprint of their clientbase is 10,000 times their own! SAP are taking the line that while it is important for SAP to reduce their own emissions, helping reduce their clients carbon footprint could produce a far better long-term planetary outcome. As long as companies remember that, as I have said before, the correct order is Planet first, then People, and then Profit. [...] [...] SAP regularly in discussions around sustainability make the point that while their carbon footprint of almost 500,000 tonnes per annum is significant, the combined footprint of their clientbase is 10,000 times their own! SAP are taking the line that while it is important for SAP to reduce their own emissions, helping reduce their clients carbon footprint could produce a far better long-term planetary outcome. As long as companies remember that, as I have said before, the correct order is Planet first, then People, and then Profit. [...]

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://greenmonk.net/seriously-people-the-correct-order-is-planet-first-then-people-then-profit/#comment-6961 Tom Raftery Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:02:54 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=1434#comment-6961 Hey Jamie, hey Chris, Jamie, thanks for the kind words and yes i have been following the Oasis stuff. I'm on the mail list! Chris, thanks for stopping by and commenting. I think Jamie said it better than I could! Hey Jamie, hey Chris,

Jamie, thanks for the kind words and yes i have been following the Oasis stuff. I’m on the mail list!

Chris, thanks for stopping by and commenting. I think Jamie said it better than I could!

]]> By: Jamie http://greenmonk.net/seriously-people-the-correct-order-is-planet-first-then-people-then-profit/#comment-6960 Jamie Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:16:28 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=1434#comment-6960 The point is that to have profit you need people, and to have people you need planet. So Tom's order is correct in my opinion. The point is that to have profit you need people, and to have people you need planet. So Tom’s order is correct in my opinion.

]]> By: Chris Yeh http://greenmonk.net/seriously-people-the-correct-order-is-planet-first-then-people-then-profit/#comment-6959 Chris Yeh Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:11:00 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=1434#comment-6959 I'm a big fan of not destroying the sole habitable planet we have, but I think it's dangerous to say "planet first, then people, then profit." While this formulation will fire up the true believers, I'm not sure it helps convince the "swing voters" who make up the majority of people. They usually care a lot about people. I’m a big fan of not destroying the sole habitable planet we have, but I think it’s dangerous to say “planet first, then people, then profit.”

While this formulation will fire up the true believers, I’m not sure it helps convince the “swing voters” who make up the majority of people. They usually care a lot about people.

]]> By: Jamie http://greenmonk.net/seriously-people-the-correct-order-is-planet-first-then-people-then-profit/#comment-6949 Jamie Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:05:21 +0000 http://greenmonk.net/?p=1434#comment-6949 Great post Tom, couldn't agree more. Brilliant that the FERC chairman said come in with that. Again, I think it's all about data - the more that energy markets can become as transparent as the internet allows them to be, the more it will become clear that low carbon electricity is cheap electricity... have you been following the OASIS stuff http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2009-08-25.php ? Great post Tom, couldn’t agree more.

Brilliant that the FERC chairman said come in with that. Again, I think it’s all about data – the more that energy markets can become as transparent as the internet allows them to be, the more it will become clear that low carbon electricity is cheap electricity… have you been following the OASIS stuff http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2009-08-25.php ?

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