Economic Development
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.
Tag: Climate Change
Podcast
Environment
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.
Environment
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
Environment
Green Finance
An excerpt from Settling Climate Accounts on the emerging practice of Net Zero finance.
sponsored
Climate Change, Environmental Activism, and Disability
People with disabilities are on the front lines of the climate crisis. Efforts to address the crisis must include them.
Review
Environment
Getting to Zero
Authors Michael Lenox and Rebecca Duff call for disruptive innovations and radical reconfiguration of industries to decarbonize the planet by 2050.
Business
How Businesses Can Regenerate the Global Commons
Businesses have played a significant role in degrading the social, economic, ecological, and governance commons, but they can play an equal role in restoring them through the development of seven regenerative qualities.
Excerpt
Business
The Perils of ‘Green Business’
An excerpt from The Business of Less: The Role of Companies and Households on a Planet in Peril on how to fix corporate sustainability.
Environment
Heroic Accounting
New proposals for monetizing corporate planetary impacts are alluring, impossible, and perilous.
Business
Why Sustainable Investment Means Investing in Advocacy
Combining traditional impact investment approaches with investment in advocacy is the only way businesses and investors can fuel meaningful social and environmental progress.