Corporate “greening” is dividing environmentalists – and sparking debate on the real meaning of sustainability
“I’ve been an environmentalist for over two decades,” Andrew Telfer tells me. “Back then we used to call it sustainable development, but people didn’t like the word development – the growth aspect of the word – so they changed it to just plain ‘sustainability.’ But I really like the term ‘sustainable development.’ We don’t live in a zero-growth world; the world economy is based on growth.”
Telfer works as Manager of Sustainability for Walmart Canada – one of many sustainability positions the company has created in the past decade. Sigue leyendo