Shilpa Unalkat, Conscious Business Consultant

100 Most Creative People in Business

http://www.fastcompany.com/100/mcp.html

Interesting names - some that you may not have expected to see on the list. Great to see Jil Sander and my mate A.R Rahman included.  Pioneers in their own right.

A Fast Growing On-line Marketplace for Social Entrepreneurs

http://www.clearlyso.com/

The Story Of Stuff

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

http://www.storyofstuff.com

Medieval Times - A Financially Enlightened Era ?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jun/22/middle-ages-banking-ethical-business

Stages Of Life - Carl Jung

"Thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening become a lie"

Sounds familiar? What we call 'middle age' need not be a turning point toward death. Ageing may humble us and awakens us to how precious life really is. Finally we've grown up and realised that the body might be aging but we've accumulated a heck of alot of spiritual prowess and knowledge.

The question is - what are we going to do with it to renew our commitment to life?

The Elders - World's Top Leaders Talking Peace

Got hugely excited when i came across www.theelders.org. When 'heavy weights' like Nelson Mandela, Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel collaborate to create a peace supporting initiative - you know this means business.

These leaders are mercurial and they are never better than when they shake up the system. Time is precious and we are so in need of downtime from war and conflict. Yep - that is an understatement. It's gone way past wake up calls don't you think?

Enron - The Play

Looking forward to seeing the onstage version of this Texas energy giant's downfall. Remember all the accounting fraud shananigans and the massive fallout? Lucy Prebble couldn't have timed it better now that the world of finance has been revealed to be full of illusions and fragile to its core.Prebble is holding up a mirror to us all so we can reflect on our greed, fears and ambitions of past times.

Enron will show at the Chichester Festival Theatre from 11 July and Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square from 17 September.