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  1. 2024 Was a Bad Year for Sustainability

    [Welcome to 2025. A couple of weeks ago HBR published my annual look back at sustainability. It wasn’t an easy year. But one very positive story cropped up in the last week…Costco bucked the pressure of pulling back on diversity and inclusion (Theme #2 below). They issued a nicely worded ‘buzz off’ message to anti-DEI […]

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  2. Sometimes Sustainability Costs More. So What?

    [fyi, this was written before the election and published in MIT SMR that week. Some things have obviously changed, but this long-standing challenge in sustainability hasn’t] Corporate sustainability efforts are seemingly facing a slump of low enthusiasm, with some tired clichés like “sustainability always costs more” resurfacing. It’s a blunt, unnuanced argument. The business case for […]

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  3. The Story That Connects the Election and Sustainability

    [Part 2 of some post-election reflections.] I don’t have words of wisdom right now. There will be endless analyses of the U.S. election, and hot takes don’t interest me too much. We’ll need more time (maybe years) to answer the question “what happened?”. I could speak from the heart about what this all means to […]

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  4. What Will Business Do on Climate in the U.S.?

    [The first of many thoughts on what this election means. As the world’s governments (with lots of representatives from business) meet in Azerbaijan for the climate conference, it’s clear that the U.S. gov’t won’t lead at the global level. Will business fill the void?] There will be much to say and discuss over the coming […]

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  5. A Couple of Pieces of Good News on Climate

    [I will soon send out some of my thoughts post-election that I’ve been posting on LinkedIn, but thought everyone could use some good news. Here were 2 clean-tech transition stories I posted right before the election.] EU Emissions Dropped 8% in 2023 EU Emissions Down 37% since 1990 Cynicism is very chic in sustainability circles […]

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