The wide spread fraud at Wells Fargo Bank is an example of what happens when Management puts pressure without adequate controls and breaks the law. This is a problem in environmental sustainability as well as in financial fraud as in this case.

In my last blog post I wrote about social neuroscience and the SCARF theory, which explains social behavior based on our brain principle known as ‘threat and reward response’. The theory posits that within social interactions our experience is influenced either by perceived threat or reward in one or several of five domains: status, certainty,…

Differentiating the deeper causes of income inequality from those that are more accidental is difficult. When we examine our own particular environments, it is natural that we should focus on our immediate surroundings: our colleagues, neighbors and fellow citizens. We don’t often think about how those on the other side of the world are faring.…

The present Irish government is joining Apple to appeal the EU decision at a time when there is a huge demand in Ireland for better social services especially in the area of housing and health, coupled with an astronomical level of national debt, but the government still says no