Corporations should take responsibility for how their activities affect the environment and society, even if it means short-term costs, because economic growth cannot come at the expense of environmental degradation that harms vulnerable people. Assessing social and environmental impacts and promoting positive change helps society prosper in the long run and recognizes how human well-being depends on living sustainably and treating all people with dignity.

3.  Life has to be made more livable for all.
We cannot support the economic growth
of one sector of society while we permit
environmental degradation to destroy the
lives of the less fortunate.

4.  Corporate initiative to assess and take
responsibility for the company's effects on
the environment and impact on social
welfare.
 Incurring short-term costs that do not
provide an immediate financial benefit to
the company, but instead promote positive
social and environmental change.

6.  "Everything is connected to everything else" is often called
the First Law of Ecology. Helping human society to prosper
in the 21st century requires that we recognize the
importance of living in balance with our physical
environment and treating each other with dignity and
equity.

8. Every Milestone Begins With
A Single Step… !!