Cultivating a Just Climate Philanthropy
How climate funding and policy exclude those who experience the worst effects of climate change, and how investing in smallholder farmers can help right the ship.
Environment Innovations in environmental protection and conserving natural resources
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Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way!
An excerpt from Pathways to Action on how market-leading organizations must take the lead in accelerating change.
Investing in Climate Justice
Practical ways investors can help the people most affected by climate change become more resilient to it, while still securing a strong financial return.
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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions
To solve the housing crisis, funders must take collective action to simultaneously solve the climate crisis and prioritize those who have had the least to do with creating either.
Rethinking Scale in Climate Solutions
How grassroots movements create durable and transformative impact.
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Engaging Employees to Create a Sustainable Business
The key to creating a vibrant and sustainable company is to find ways to get all employees personally engaged in day-to-day corporate sustainability efforts.
The Next Phase of Business Sustainability
The era of corporations integrating sustainable practices is being surpassed by a new age of corporations actively transforming the market to make it more sustainable. Open access to this article is made possible by The Regents of the University of Michigan on behalf of the Erb Institute.
The Greening of Wal-Mart
For much of its history, Wal-Mart’s corporate management team toiled inside its “Bentonville Bubble,” narrowly focused on operational efficiency, growth, and profits. But now the world's largest retailer has widened its sights, building networks of employees, nonprofits, government agencies, and suppliers to “green” its supply chains. Here's how and why the world’s largest retailer is using a network approach to decrease its environmental footprint – and to increase its profitability.
Protest Movements Could Be More Effective Than the Best Charities
To do as much good as possible with limited resources, funders should look to woefully underfunded protest movements.
The Case for Causal AI
Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.