by Gil Friend | May 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
In their otherwise excellent HBR post, “Sustainability In Financial Services Is Not About Being Green,” Robert Eccles and George Serafeim may have missed the elephant in the room. They rightly say that The next time we hear about a bank or insurance...
by Gil Friend | May 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Does Wall Street really care about sustainability? This was one of the questions in the air at the Ceres conference last week, where managers of trillions of dollars of assets gathered to assess and advance the state of ESG/SRI/sustainable/impact investment....
by Gil Friend | Apr 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Last week I asked: “If your company were focused on building regenerative capacity—its own, of its value chain, of its communities, of the local and planetary ecosystems that support it—how might you do your business differently? What new opportunities might...
by Gil Friend | Apr 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
“For 25 years sustainable development has been held up as the solution to the world’s problems. But instead we have had ever more pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change. Sustainability has been abused like few other terms in history. It is time to think...
by Gil Friend | Apr 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
This morning I posted Beyond “Sustainability”: Better Questions. This afternoon a new book arrived: The Upcycle, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. The subtitle: Beyond Sustainability: Designing for Abundance. Exactly.
