Environment

Response: Using Industrial Symbiosis to Address Barriers to Circularity

By Giorgos Demetriou, Claire Hammon & Valentina Ort

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

By Ken Pucker 1

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

By Amanda Williams, Patrick Haack & Knut Haanaes 1

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)

Conjuring Liquid Gold from Air

By Atharv Agrawal, Wajed Nadine El-Halabi & Jina Yazdanpanah

The nonprofit Dar Si Hmad utilizes the ancient technology of fog harvesting to address water scarcity in Morocco.

The Portfolio Defense of ESG

By Frederick Alexander 1

Shareholder stewardship should prioritize companies’ effects on the economy and investors’ entire portfolios.

The God’s-Eye View of ESG

By Ben Filewod, Murray Collins, Simon Dikau, Alexis Moyer & Luca Taschini

Satellite technology can remake the reporting of environmental, social, and governance standards. But this spatial finance revolution requires help from industry and government.

Politics, Values, and the Green Transition

By Daniela Blei

Shifting consumer values can combine with market forces to green the economy.

Why Do Collaborations Fail?

By Daniela Blei 2

Collaborations of diverse stakeholders confront predictable governance traps.

SSIR Online, Summer 2023 Issue

By SSIR Editors

A collection of standout pieces published online about fighting climate change, funder accountability, telemedicine in Ukraine, and inclusive social entrepreneurship.