ESG Needs a Shared Language
As a cross-sector collaboration, ESG means different things to different people, but systems change will require building a shared understanding between diverse stakeholders.
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The False Promise of Corporate Carbon Neutrality
“Net-zero” and “carbon-neutral” are prominent corporate climate pledges … that won’t come to anything.
Solving Social Media’s ‘Local Paradox’
Local social networks are often filled with just as much misinformation, racism, and toxicity as global platforms, with effects that can be even more severe.
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The Wonder of New Ideas
An excerpt from Radical Curiosity on how awe can be a framework for rethinking the social practice of innovation.
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How Impact Data Changes the Way Donors Give
A recent study shows that comparable, easily digestible metrics shifted donations from charities with only a good pitch to those with demonstrable results.
Making the Affordable Aspirational: Increasing the Adoption of Frugal Innovations at the Base of the Pyramid
Companies and nonprofits need to be more realistic and empathetic that consumers’ decisions are not purely driven by cost.
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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry
Wouldn’t it be great if you could simply report your program results and get them externally verified by a trusted third-party registry? It’s not as impossible as it sounds—in fact, we’re close.
Digital Service Development Needs an Ethical Pause
The ethical pause—a short period of reflection and inquiry about a project’s ethical implications and the team’s approach to the work—helps ensure teams ask the right questions and address issues of inequity and access in the services they develop.
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Advancing Climate Justice Priorities Over Profit-Led Research
Through intentional investments and informed divestments, investors, philanthropists, and foundations can support environmentally conscious, community-centered, and reparative approaches to economic and technological change.
Time to Put the Fossil-Fuel Industry Into Hospice
If humanity is to survive the climate crisis, we must manage a just and orderly transition away from fossil fuels. The correct models for this resolution are triage, euthanasia, and hospice.
Open-access to this article made possible by University of Michigan.