Sustainability Report 2008/9 - Perspectives on Sustainability

Lewis Booth

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Ford Motor Company

"Our product decisions ... reinforce the essential link between a financially sustainable company and a sustainable environment."

Bert Bras and Tina Guldberg

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Program Director
Sustainable Design & Manufacturing Program
Manufacturing Research Center
Georgia Institute of Technology

"There must be a significant 'cool' factor that makes people want to change their driving behaviors to reduce congestion and vehicle emissions."

Melissa Forbes

Ph.D. Candidate, Public Policy and Sociology
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Department of Sociology
University of Michigan

"Some companies ... view shareholders as a source of expertise and seek out their advice on complex environmental and social governance issues."

Paul Hawken

Environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, author

"Climate change is not an environmental issue. It is a civilizational issue, and the first truly global one in the history of humankind."

Dr. Adrian K. Lund

President
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute

"The Institute, the auto industry and government must work together to help ensure that motor vehicle safety and the environment achieve a proper balance."

Mark Mittelhauser

Acting Director
Office of International Labor Affairs and Corporate Social Responsibility
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
U.S. Department of State

"We make the argument that effective CSR policies are good for business in terms of worker retention, morale, productivity and risk mitigation."

John Viera

Director, Sustainable Business Strategies
Ford Motor Company

"The fact that we already had a sustainability plan really helped us last year when the auto companies went before Congress."