Bitten by the affluenza bug

Sam Lakha

January 14, 2011

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Businesses face a whole host of sustainability challenges in 2011. Is rampant consumption the greatest of these and are businesses up to the job of addressing it?

In the first of a new weekly series for the Guardian Sustainable Business website looking at issues inside sustainability, John Elkington talks about the impact of our urge to possess the latest products and gadgets; it is spreading fast, especially among those in boardrooms and not good for the planet at all.

Read more here and enter your vote in the affluenza poll in relation to John’s post here.