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.
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.
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.