Korea as a Conserver Society

Abstract

In the Spring 2012 Issue of Social Business Emeritus Professor Stan Shapiro revisited the pioneering work of the Canadian Conserver Society Project with which Dr Jim Dator had been involved. Ten years before, in 2002, Shapiro had also published a lengthy evaluation of this project in the Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis, in which he emphasized the renewed necessity of a Conserver Society for the twenty-first Century. He again stressed numerous ways businesses can make money in a Conserver Society. He compared the work of the Conserver Society with the recommendations of the World Business Council on Sustainable Development Report, “Sustainable Production and Consumption: A Business Perspective” (Geneva, Switzerland, April 1996), further reinforcing the point that businesses now should embrace and not run from the Conserver Society perspective.