January 1, 2020. Canberra, Australia. We wake to an eerie silence and a thick blanket of smoke covering our city. No birds chirping, no laughter out on the street from kids playing. We have had weeks of being blanketed in smoke already, but this was different. This level of smoke…
This time last year we asked if Australia was on-track to hold up its end of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A few months later a report from the Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI) gave us an answer. It concludes that Australia’s progress on the SDGs is mixed….
On 8 March we celebrated International Women’s Day. Marches were held around the world to rally for equality and celebrate womanhood. Melbourne’s CBD was filled with women from all walks of life wearing purple and proudly holding signs demanding justice. Last week it was the students’ turn. Striking from school,…
Succinct. Genuine. Direct. World-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs is a master communicator and I was delighted to attend his lecture on A New Age of Sustainable Development at the Plaza Ballroom in Melbourne on 15 October 2018. His call for global partnerships and systems transformation is one we’ve heard before but…
What better way to raise awareness of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) than sponsor the new-look Banksia Awards, Australia’s first and foremost sustainability awards. For a proudly-certified B Corporation that assists clients bring people together to solve social and environmental problems, the decision to sponsor the Banksia Sustainability Awards…
The world’s plan to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs is 1000 days old today! This plan, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the “Global Goals”, was adopted by the 193 countries of the…
Why ‘break bread’ when you can ‘cut cake’? It’s a rhetorical question one can imagine famed 19th Century Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde asking. As you may know, it was Wilde who is quoted as saying: “Life is short. Eat dessert first.” At Currie we cut cake this week….
In the quest for a positive impact on the world, Currie Communications and many of our clients voluntarily hold ourselves to a high standard of governance, transparency, environmental and social impact. We prove this as a certified B Corporation. A large aspect of B Corp certification is using the power…
Wasn’t the ABC TV War on Waste program fantastic? If you weren’t one of the 2.6 million-plus viewers of the program, then you may be wondering what is behind the recent surge in people converting to reusable coffee cups and ditching plastic bags. The Banksia Awards-winning show (it won the Currie-sponsored…
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