Sustainability

Financial Viability versus Financial Sustainability: Understanding the Distinction

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Rethinking Financial Sustainability: From Viability to Value Creation The language of ‘sustainability’ in business is notoriously slippery. For some, it remains a byword for financial viability—a shorthand for steady profits and operational endurance. For an increasing number of stakeholders, however, financial sustainability means something richer, more nuanced, and for companies wishing to survive the coming …

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Eliminating Mercury and Cyanide: The Future of Responsible Gold Recovery

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A new gold extraction technology is poised to deliver significant sustainability benefits for the gold mining sector, particularly in regions where environmental and health impacts from traditional extraction methods remain a critical concern. This innovative process, described recently in Nature Sustainability, eliminates the need for highly toxic chemicals such as cyanide and mercury, which are …

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What the Stoics Can Teach Us About Sustainable Development

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The modern sustainable development movement suffers from a peculiar blindness: it focuses obsessively on technical solutions while ignoring the philosophical foundations that might actually make those solutions work. Consider the Stoics, who developed one of history’s most sophisticated frameworks for thinking about human flourishing within natural constraints. Their insights remain remarkably relevant for our current …

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