Business, Science Critiques

Go into any major bookstore in the High Street, browse bookshelves at airports or look online and you will see a wide variety of books for sale on spirituality/mindfulness/psychology/mind/body and spirit tailored for businesses. Numerous leaders/coaches/facilitators and teachers in these fields offer a range of courses/workshops/retreats and training programmes for businesses leaders/ management/marketing consultants/sales staff and office workers. …

The Privatisation of Spirituality. Genetically Modified Practice for Business. A CritiqueRead More »

There is a valid concern about the influence of powerful corporations on people and the Earth. The more powerful worldwide influence of the business, then the more likely that corporations neglect their social responsibilities and global sensitivities. …

Do Corporations have a Real Commitment to Ethics?Read More »

Dictionary Definition of a Parasite – An organism that feeds on another organism while contributing nothing to benefit it.

We need to ask if global companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Starbucks and Vodafone have become the biggest parasites in society. They avoid paying corporate tax as if it were the plague. They siphon money to tax havens, move money around the globe as part of globalisation for tax avoidance purposes. …

Are Amazon, Apple, Google, Starbucks and Vodafone corporate Parasites feeding on society?Read More »

Costa Coffee, a British multinational,  boasts the biggest chain of shops in the UK with more than 1000 coffee shops in the country and hundreds more worldwide and, on average, a new coffee shop opening in Britain everyday. Unlike Starbucks, it also pays its full share of taxes in the UK. …

Totnes, Costa Coffee and a Rocket Propelled MortarRead More »

Imagine what you could do with £9 billion. Provide sports teachers, sports class, equipment and fields for every poor school in the country? Provide widespread recreational and sports facilities for a whole range of interests?  Give programmes for children and adults to eat a healthy and nutritious diet? Set up programmes for young and old to spend more time outdoors for enjoyment, for exercise, for health. …

Welcome to the Corporate London Olympics starting July 26, 2012. Athletes, kids and adults all miss out.Read More »