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Business is getting right with the environment too. The Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, based in Washington, is working with auto and oil giants including Ford, Chevron, Texaco and Shell to draft guidelines for incorporating biodiversity conservation into oil and gas exploration. And the center has helped Starbucks develop purchasing guidelines that reward coffee growers whose methods have the least impact on the environment. Says Nitin Desai, secretary-general of the Johannesburg summit: "We're hoping that partnerships--involving governments, corporations, philanthropies and NGOs--will increase the credibility of the commitment to sustainable development...
...Guides, writing up department store eateries can be tricky. "We have reviewed only one department store restaurant, Harvey Nichols," he says. "When we gave them a bad review they refused to carry our books. That kind of behavior can make reviewing these restaurants a delicate situation." Harvey Nichols' Dominic Ford points out that the store carries only two restaurant guidebooks, including the Zagat Survey, which gave his restaurant a mixed review. "I would not refuse to stock a book based on a bad review," says Ford. "I have just chosen not to sell all the guidebooks." Harden and Zagat both...
Harvey Nichols, a store that is often credited with starting the current dining trend, is completely renovating its 10-year-old Fifth Floor Restaurant and Bar, overlooking London's Knightsbridge. "We have to stay ahead of the times," says Dominic Ford, Harvey Nichols' restaurant and food retail director. "When we created this floor I wanted a restaurant that happened to be on top of a department store, not vice versa. It had to be high-caliber enough to bring people in, and that is why we have been successful." So successful, in fact, that Harvey Nicks now owns...
...People used to write songs about T-Birds and Corvettes. Today they write regulations." Bill Ford , Ford CEO, on America's floundering love affair with...
...their parents, who are living longer than anyone expected or planned for. Full Social Security benefits, which have kicked in at age 65 since the program began in 1935, will get pushed back starting next year and gradually recede to age 67. Dozens of companies, including Sears and Ford, have scaled back health-insurance benefits for retirees. A smaller and smaller percentage of Americans (now just 16%) receives guaranteed-benefit pensions from their employers. Americans are more dependent on 401(k) savings plans--in which balances have been shrinking (4% in 2001, to $10.9 trillion) despite record amounts...