Green Options » economic strength http://greenoptions.com/tag/economic-strength Posts tagged 'economic strength' Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:24:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en GDP Growth Needs Replacing, But With What? http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/09/04/gdp-growth-needs-replacing-but-with-what/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/09/04/gdp-growth-needs-replacing-but-with-what/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:24:35 +0000 Chris Milton http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/09/04/gdp-growth-needs-replacing-but-with-what/ Graph showing comparison of GDP against GRI Last week, while poking around a few dusty corners of the internet, I came across a small business future group which one person had left because of disagreement about the prominence of sustainability in the group’s charter.

This is a shame. Those who are facing up to the current challenges in business need to work together to find the solutions, not argue over the relative importance of their preferred approaches.

Then a post on World Changing caught my eye. “The Two Faces of Economic Reporting” points out that last week’s growth in US GDP growth was underpinned by the largest drop in personal income for over three years.

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