July is B Corp month. So as a proudly-certified, purpose-driven B Corporation (B Corp), Currie is sharing what we know about seeking certification. Seeking certification as a B Corporation (B Corp) can be like eating an elephant. It’s not something you should tackle with a faint heart or a lack of appetite….
Why should businesses do good? It’s not just about reputation or charity. It’s about becoming a more successful business. Currie is a proudly-certified B Corporation, a founding member in Australia. As a B Corp, we believe in the power of business to make a difference. It’s why Currie gifts 5%…
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….
Almost 3000 Australians revealed their perceptions of Australia’s beef industry to the University of Queensland (UQ) last year. In the main, the results are positive. According to lead researcher Dr Bradd Witt, Australians have more trust in the industry than other resource-based industries or the financial sector. (NT Country Hour)….
The expectations that consumers and the community have for how food is produced, and who they trust to produce it, are changing. Lately the terms ‘social licence’ and ‘sustainable development’ have been used interchangeably by Australian agriculture in talk about how to keep the community’s trust. However, they are not…
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,…
I’m among a growing number of millennials with a level of mistrust of brands and their online communications and an ability to switch off to this content. We’ve developed a kind of sixth sense; we can spot ‘spin’ and are aware of guerilla comms tactics infiltrating our social media feeds….
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…
Are you ready to balance professional and private priorities – and regulate the inevitable intertwining of the two – if something unforeseen is to occur in your home life? For me this was the brave question a senior executive at a major corporation posed to a recent leadership summit in Sydney. It’s the type of question…
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…
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