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.
Environment Innovations in environmental protection and conserving natural resources
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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.
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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.