Welcome to Ethical Exchange Sustainability Services (Pty) Ltd.
At Ethical Exchange Sustainability Services (Pty) Ltd we pride ourselves in placing the three kings at the forefront of all our business endeavours. The three kings refers to the social environment, the natural environment and the economic environment. These are all interlinked and what affects one, ultimately affects the other.
The Green revolution did not begin all that long ago and was probably prompted in the 1960′s with Rachel Carsons’ Silent Spring (http://www.rachelcarson.org/). In South Africa, the National Environmental Managment Act was promulgated in 1998 and I remember a good friend of mine saying to me that this legislation will take at least ten years to be enforced. It is now the year 2011 and i look around me and it is not only companies making an effort to “green” their businesses, but it is individuals who have taken matters into their own hands and who have begun being more aware of electricity usage, recycling initiatives, and what they can grow from there own garden, it is the individuals of this world who are rapidly deciding that enough is enough and refusing to buy products which are damaging to the environment. As a result, companies have been forced, due to public demand, to become environmentally responsible and to be stamped with a label which says that they are responsible. These certification stamps, popularly known as ecolabels, are not standardised, but they do all have similar requirements in common – the main one being – do not pollute the natural environment and clean up if you do pollute. So, although not standardised, the world has come a long way from industrial revolution times to the green revolution times which we find ourselves in today. Today we find that there is a general awareness amongst people…. We find that technology, farming methods, mining methods, architectural design, automobile design, energy designs and other aspects of the human world are “evolving” with one aim in mind – to green the natural environment – to clean the natural environment.
We have realised, somewhere along the way, that we do indeed need the environment in order to survive and that technological improvements will not bail us out of the mess generations before us have created (with no intention), and we have accepted that our food, clothes, freshwater, shelter and pretty much every component sold today in the human world is sourced from the natural environment. Thus we get one of the Kings – the natural environment, which interacts with the economic environment – another King, so much so, that if the resources of the natural environment are depleted or damaged then the economic environemnt will too, be adversely affected. A damaged natural or economic environment will result in a damaged polarised society.
So even though we see we have come a long way in terms of cleaning and greening the environment and saving profits for large companies through being responsible, we are only starting to focus our energies on how to balance the extremely unbalanced human society that we find exisitng in the world today. The rich are still getting richer and the poor are still getting poorer.
Ethical Exchange Sustainability Services (Pty) Ltd communicates to the public how to be responsible – socially and environmentally responsible. We exchange innovative solutions and implement these for companies. We partake in coporate social responsibiity initiatives and we manage and action projects on behalf of companies in communities where assistance is needed. We pride ourselves in helping communities reach a stage where they can help themselves, be this through training, teaching, establishing food gardes, wind power, recycling initiatives or whatever may be the need of the people. Thus we are a platform for the exchange of ethics – the exchange of solutions, ideas and technology from those who can afford to give and who want to partake in corporate social responsibilty, to those who are in need of these life changing solutions, ideas and technology.
Making future generations better now.