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Brilliant, Dr Sally Uren! I love this!
Gil Friend Sustainability OG • Strategic ADVISOR / Board DIRECTOR / Ontological COACH • Helping World-Changers Change Worlds • 👉🏻Ask "Me" Anything 24/7 at delphi.ai/gfriend or text/call +1-254-739-6394 19m Report this post Brilliant, Dr Sally Uren! I love this! Dr Sally Uren Executive Director and Chief Acceleration Officer at Forum for the Future 9h Wondering how best to navigate all the current uncertainty and headwinds? I’ve made a compass! For you. For us.
A Fourth of July Like No Other...
As I ponder the state of American politics on this Independence Day, including the profound politicization of the Supreme Court and the resulting decison granting near total immunity to the commander in chief, all I can think of is this weird scene my wife Lisa and I encountered in 2021 canoeing on the Hudson River near our last home - just a mile up from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. What does this moment bring to mind for you?
How about an "energy transition" - at 18% ROI?!
Have you ever tried to change a habit? Have you ever tried to change your spouse's habits? Your child's? Ten people in your company? Or 100? Or 100,000? It’s hard. And yet it’s done. But you have to make the commitment, and do the work. This is true at the macro level. One case in point: McKinsey & Company (the world's top management consultancy) says that "sustainability is a mission-critical priority" and that it is committed to helping clients decarbonise.
Our 10 Must-Read ESG and Sustainability Books for 2022
Did your New Year’s resolution include spending less time on-screen and more time curled up with a good book or audiobook? We are a few months into the year now but good news, you still have plenty of time to reach your goal… and even learn while you do it! We asked our experts as well as polled Antea Group clients and friends about their favorite books on the topics of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), and sustainability.
The COVID Covenant: Going big is the price of admission
The world (well, most of it) attacked COVID-19 as if it were a true global emergency: with extraordinary speed, scale and scope. With real collaboration and a healthy dose of courage, some gutsy decisions were made both in government and business. Getting billions of people to don masks, allocating trillions of dollars and putting massive human safety nets in place around the globe in record time is no task for the faint of heart.
Just Tell The Truth
by Gil Friend , August 19, 2009 Green marketing claims describe, or assert, green attributes of companies' products and services. Consider, for example, two food packages, one labeled "100% Organic" on one and "the other Eco-friendly." Both make claims about the products, but they have different meanings and impacts: One has a specific legal definition; the other is so unspecific that many find it misleading.
What the CEO ‘Purpose of Business’ Declaration Is — and What It Isn’t
181 CEOs have signed on to broader purpose — skepticism is warranted, but this is potentially a BFD. Now, let’s see if these companies deliver, and help them when they do — and challenge them when they don’t. An important provocation For all the criticism from right and left that the Business Roundtable declaration on the purpose of business has rapidly garnered, this is potentially a very big deal.
A 6-Ingredient Recipe for Sustainability
Why utilities and cities are joining REBA
Materiality Is Broken. But It Doesn’t Have to Be.
In formulating strategy, shaping communications and improving their impact in the world, companies, and their sustainability teams, must answer two big questions: "What is important to our business?” and "What is important to our stakeholders?” (Sometimes as a proxy for the larger question: “What is important to the world?") To do this, companies often turn to a materiality analysis — usually every two years — at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars (or, in some cases, over a hundred...
Moving beyond quarterly capitalism in a carbon-constrained world
First in a two-part series on business risk and strategic duty.My sustainability work over the past several decades has focused on value — discovering, generating and capturing the often-hidden value that can be revealed by looking at your business through the lens of 3.8 billion years of open source R&D (and not only the lens of a 500-year-old accounting scheme).But there's also risk.
Gil Friend’s Daily View
www.businessinsider.com David and Rick looked all over San Francisco for a home under $1 million, to no avail. When the couple stumbled on the San Francisco Shipyard, a middle-class neighborhood rising on the site of a form...
How business can learn to navigate the Anthropocene
I began writing The New Bottom Line in 1992 as a biweekly column for Los Angeles Times syndicate. For years it was hosted at the Natural Logic website. Now, after a hiatus, I’m pleased to have it reestablished at GreenBiz, where I’ll offer monthly strategic perspectives on business, sustainability, innovation and the climate challenge.It’s pitch dark. There’s no moon. You can’t find your map. The ground shifts beneath your feet.
Learning to Count What Counts: The Evolution of New Metrics
We've come a long way since the first New Metrics conference seven years ago. Back then, much of our focus was stuff — resource efficiency and the physical "metabolism" of our organizations; now, we focus more and more on value. Back then, we were very concerned with reporting; now, we're increasingly concerned with how reporting contributes to strategic insight.
Gil Friend and Krista Huhtala-Jenks on urban planning in the age of mobility services
Transportation is on the move, and the convergence of technical, business model and social innovation—Mobility as a Service (MaaS), autonomous vehicles, sharing platforms, electrification, trip caps and more—stand to reshape the urban landscape. But the policy, regulatory and planning landscapes need to adapt as quickly as the technology. What's needed, what's happening, what's possible—and what could go wrong?
These technologies promise an impact in 2017
This is part 2 of a 3-part series.
2016 offers these tastes of hope for the future
This is part 3 in a three-part series. Read parts 1 and 2 here.After highlighting VERGE leaders' impressions of 2016 and visions for 2017, we present our third and final installment of this year's series focused on the role of technology and systems-thinking in accelerating sustainability solutions.Here are 15 responses from inspiring and provocative VERGE movers and shakers, answering our third question: "Imagine it's 2030.
GM, Lyft and Otto on the future of mobility
If recent trends continue, we will be driven into a transportation future that is increasingly shared, connected, on-demand, electric and autonomous. How humankind's quality of life will change due to these technological innovations, however, is up for debate. Robin Chase, co-founder of Zipcar has warned that, if we don't prepare, we could end up in a nightmare of more congested cities with a dearth of tax revenue to maintain roads and massive job loss pegged to automation.
What impressed you most about 2016?
This article is part of a 3-part series.In the spirit of year-end reflection, we invited leaders from across the VERGE ecosystem to share their thoughts about what happened in the world of technology and sustainability in 2016.This piece — the first in a three-part VERGE series to close out the year — features the perspectives of a handful of thought leaders and "doers" on the pulse of trends driving sustainability innovation.
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