Before the corona crisis, it was considered irrefutable wisdom that citizens would not participate in radical changes and that politics would therefore be incapable of action despite the insight that we cannot continue to run the economy as we do now. Business interests and the media emphasized that without growth, living standards and social [...]
Months ago activists decided for massive global climate strikes to take place on April 24th. Due to the COVID-19 crisis they had to reconsider their planning. Cancelling the strikes all together was not an option the young people wanted to consider. Instead, they decided to move their strike online. The activists are calling for urgent [...]
Despite the current situation the International ECG Consultants Training is taking place! Months ago the training was planned to take place at the picturesque Canada Water Theatre and Library in London from April 23rd to the 26th. Due to the corona-crisis it was no longer an option to offer in-person training for participants from four [...]
The Corona Virus is not a novelty in the world, it’s been around for a long time already – it’s only new in the human species. Its typical hosts are wild animals. About 75 percent of new infectious disease, such as Ebola, HIV and Corona, are of animal origin. Also the SARS-Coronavirus, which killed about 8,000 [...]
Kirchanschöring in Bavaria was the first municipality in Germany to draw up an ECG Balance Sheet. As part of a scientific research project of the University of Göttingen it has now been awarded as a "Community of the Future". Prof. Dr. Peter Schmuck and his team of the Center for Sustainable Development at the Georg-August Universität [...]
The Department of Applied Psychology of the University of Innsbruck is planning a long-term study in examining German and Austrian companies and organisations who implement the Common Good Balance Sheet. "The aim of our study, which is to run over several years, is an independent review of the sustainability of the process of Common Good accounting. [...]
The German Green Party calls for common good accounting at federal level The MPs call on the federal government to draw up Common Good Balance Sheets for at least two companies with federal participation in a pilot project, in order to pass on the resulting experience to private companies. In their motion (19/11148), the MPs explain [...]
The ECG-balanced company Taifun-Tofu won the German Sustainability Award in the category "Small and medium-sized enterprises". In the explanatory statement, the company writes that its plant-based organic foods "make an important contribution to feeding the growing world population". The renowned German award honours companies that combine economic success with social responsibility and environmental protection in an [...]
In the 2018/19 financial year, herb abd tee specialist Sonnentor achieved its strongest result ever in terms of sales, with 48 million euros. Sonnentor Kräuterhandels GmbH generated 46.4 million euros of this, the subsidiary Sonnen Tourismus another 1.6 million euros. All in all, a sales increase of over three percent was achieved, even though growth is [...]
