Denver’s Big Stick for Buildings
Denver and Colorado have enacted tough energy codes for existing buildings, and they're not the only cities and states that have.
WTF Is The Circular Economy?
Circular economics may seem like a secret handshake known only to a few. But it’s everywhere, and it’s growing.
Power to the People, Y’all! - A Company’s Stakeholders
The SEC’s climate-reporting rules are a big bummer because they don’t go far enough. Yet there’s a ring of people and groups encircling every business - stakeholders - and they have the power to lift a company up or create a world of hurt that can shut it down.
One of the World’s Biggest Clean-tech Hubs is in … Arkansas?!
A big clean-tech hub is rising in a part of the country that had 20th-century powerhouse industries like oil exploration and paper mills. Where? Southern Arkansas, and lithium refining and carbon sequestration are two ascendant industries there now.
The SEC & Climate Reporting Flows Downhill
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently mandated climate-risk and greenhouse gas emissions reporting, and there’s plenty to disappoint everyone. But even if you’re a small or middle-market company, if your clients are reporting, then so are you.
Losing Winter
I love winter. I mean really, really love winter. Yet the frozen season is getting shorter every year due to climate change. There’s a name for this - solastalgia, a sense that something we love is leaving us. Rather than curl up in a ball and wish it all away, there is action we can take to parry both climate change and the sadness we winter people feel about its vanishing.
ESG - What’s in A Name?
The acronym ESG means lots of different things to different people - like a Rorschach blot. But environmental, social and governance performance in business is really about is creating or destroying value in a company through its intangible, soft assets.
Environmental Justice – Skip the Outrage in Aspen
Environmental (in-)justice (EJ) isn’t about outrage in white-bread enclaves. EJ is about historically marginalized people and communities who bear the brunt of environmental degradation, usually without any say in it - communities like Libby, Mont., the site of one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.
ESG for Consumers, Customers & Fans
One stakeholder, the consumer, is a central driver of sustainability. So if brands want to hang onto their customers and fans, they must stand for something. The latest excerpt from ESG Table Stakes looks at all-important stakeholders - customers, consumers and fans - and how they drive ESG.
ESG Table Stakes & the Supply Chain
*(Excerpt from the book, ESG Table Stakes - Why ESG Matters to Stakeholders And Why Every Company Needs It. By Melissa Baldridge, due out this fall.*)
Big Glasses - What’s in A Name?
I started my business on Facebook.
To be honest, a friend observantly christened my new business during work-from-home office photo shares in the early days of the pandemic.