To Meet the Climate Challenge, Philanthropy Must Challenge Itself
Recent rapid growth in climate philanthropy risks redundancy, waste, and friendly fire.
Environment - Articles
Innovations in environmental protection and conserving natural resources (more)
Racing to Net-Zero: A Captivating but Distant Ambition
While CDR will be crucial in the long term, firms working toward net-zero, now, need to work toward reducing emissions.
Legislating for Climate Justice Starts With Listening
Illinois’ Climate and Equitable Jobs Act shows that transformative policymaking is dependent on a genuinely inclusive process.
SSIR Online, Spring 2022 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about blockchain for good, collective impact, overcoming racial equity fatigue, and carbon offsets.
Resistant Rice
New genome sequencing has produced saline-resistant and flood-tolerant rice.
Podcast
Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders—Climate Solutions
Tonya Allen of the McKnight Foundation and John Palfrey of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation discuss how they’re answering the global call for climate solutions that promote equity and protect vulnerable communities and encourage others in the philanthropic sector to act at this critical time. Produced in partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts.
A Baby Boomer and a Gen Zer Walk Into a Climate Action Meeting
A year of working together in a cross-generational group has taught us how to bridge our divides—and leverage each other’s strengths in the climate fight.
Excerpt
Green Finance
An excerpt from Settling Climate Accounts on the emerging practice of Net Zero finance.
Integrating Individual Well-Being With Environmental Systems
How cultivating a values-based, ecological worldview can help lay the groundwork for collective action toward the greater well-being of individuals, societies, and the systems in which we live.
Business Executives Want to Be Pushed Towards Responsible Sourcing
For ESG compliance to become more than lip service, corporate leaders say they need activist pressure, government regulation, and a strong business case.