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Environment
Response: Increasing Environmental and Social Sustainability at the Same Time
The fashion industry could decrease its environmental impact by shifting its sources of revenue from material and energy to labor.
Response: Driving Sustainability From Within Business
Rather than canning the circular-economy concept altogether, business leaders and policy makers should prioritize sufficiency over recycling.
Environment
Response: Using Industrial Symbiosis to Address Barriers to Circularity
Collaboration is an essential driver for discovering and scaling innovative approaches that can move the fashion industry toward circularity.
A Circle That Isn’t Easily Squared
As the fashion industry’s environmental footprint attracts increasingly negative attention, circular business models are promoting opportunities to sustain growth by decoupling revenue streams from resource use.
In this Up for Debate series, Ken Pucker, former Timberland COO, explains the industry’s turn to circularity and the barriers to its adoption, then researchers and experts in the sector respond.
Putting the SDGs Back on Track
Worldwide SDG efforts are failing. How can businesses do their part to make things right?
Open access to this article is made possible by a research grant from E4S (Enterprise for Society Center)
A Haven for Transitional Youth
First Light Hospitality has developed a scalable social enterprise that provides jobs, life skills, and outdoor fun for young people aging out of the social-services system.
The Portfolio Defense of ESG
Shareholder stewardship should prioritize companies’ effects on the economy and investors’ entire portfolios.
India’s Corporate Philanthropy
Indian companies tend to spend required social outlays on important stakeholder groups.
Politics, Values, and the Green Transition
Shifting consumer values can combine with market forces to green the economy.