Sustainable Enterprise 2007 Together for a Better Tomorrow

Salvador in Bahia, Brazil

by
Robert Henriques Girling, Ph.D.
and
Katia Siqueira de Freitas, Ph. D.
January 2007

The Programa de Capacitação em Gestão Participativa/Lidere (PGP) started at the Federal University of Bahia in August 1995. During this time the program has employed a project learning approach to
successfully train hundreds of school administrators in
the State of Bahia, Brazil. As a mark of its success, the program was contracted by the city of Salvador to train teachers and administrators at all of the city’s 120 schools.

Goals and objectives of the project

Robert Girling, Ph.D.
Professor; School of Business and Economics
Sonoma State University

"Sustainable development will be the primary driver of industrial and economic change over the next 50 years."
David Blood, former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Beginning In 1992 with the Rio Earth Summit, the community of nations began the dawn of a new age in which we recognized that prosperity and protecting the environment are like Siamese twins. Increasingly, a broad range of companies are incorporating sustainability into their business strategies and plans.

Just what is meant by sustainability? There is remarkable agreement about human values. Most members of any community would like to see opportunities for good work for all, health food and clean drinking water, access to education and health care, responsible entrepreneurship and the preservation of sustainable and livable cities. Taken together these values add up to sustainability, the principle of ensuring that our actions today do not limit the range of economic, social and environmental options open to our children and future generations or simply "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability future generations to meet their own needs." (UN Brundtland Commission)