Sustainability comms? Companies don’t want to talk about it Joel Makower February 13, 2023 It’s a weird moment in sustainable business. The corporate activity, the money flows, and the pressure from consumers, investors and regulators to take more proactive measures — all are ramping up. The mainstream media interest …
How to Avoid the Many Shades of Greenwashing
This week, we touch on everything from our future circular packaging economy, the new era of the workplace and the planet’s most innovative inventor to the evolution of greenwashing and how your brand can steer clear. Plus, we once again challenge companies to think about how much impact their now-$7M Super Bowl ad budgets could have if directed instead toward social causes. EDITORIAL FROM PURPOSE …
Free event to join: One Earth Choir 2023 February 21st
One Earth Choir is made by persons around the Earth who embrace & share the theme: “we have many native languages, but one only human language, we are one only humanity”. In this project, the Symbol of our Human language is a music, that people around the Earth listen & share online (or play, or sing): *on the same day: 21st February every year, *at the same …
This company is creating ethical diamonds from captured co2 and rainwater
Diamonds may be beautiful, but the industry behind it is not. To start with, there are the terrible environmental consequences that come with mining for diamonds. The Guardian reports that to get just one carat (0.2 grams) of a traditional diamond, miners could excavate up to 2.2 million pounds of …
Making the invisible visible is crucial to our survival
Our world is changing. As the pace of change gets faster, the personal and national stress level rises. Covid + egg prices + climate change + school issues + China sending a balloon across America + Ukraine war + ‘work from home’ + inflation = a lot of anxiety and …
Save the Date: 2023 World Happiness Report
Save the Date Launch of the 2023 World Happiness Report March 20 | 16:00 – 17:00 GMT Add to google calendar | Add to calendar Join SDSN for the launch of the 2023 World Happiness Report. More information coming soon! Register Now
Robert Rubinstein invited you to attend TBLI Talk: Creating an Economy in Service of Life on Feb 16
What kind of economy do you want? In service of life or only wealth accumulation. Feb 16,2023,3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CET TBLI Talk: Creating an Economy in Service of Life Hosted by Robert Rubinstein View event
Alaska’s Move to Eliminate Plastic Reveals Issues Within US Recycling Infrastructure
This week, with heavy hearts for everyone affected by the catastrophic earthquake that destroyed parts of southern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday, we look at the brands that were quick to send support to the relief efforts — and invite our community to do the same. Speaking of supporting those in need, Authentic and its massive portfolio of brands have partnered with Global Citizen to rally consumers to help end …
The Corporate Personhood vs. Human Beings
The Progenitor of Inequalities – Corporate Personhood vs. Human Beings The word “inequality” is everywhere in the media. It usually refers either to race, gender, rich vs. poor, or other differences between human beings. Absent from the public debate is the biggest perpetrator of “inequality” against human beings – the …
Climate tech and AI: An exclusive interview with ChatGPT
My exclusive Q&A with ChatGPT Joel Makower February 6, 2023 If we’re going to co-exist with our technology overlords, we ought to know them a bit better. Case in point: ChatGPT, the scary-smart artificial intelligence engine capable of answering a breathtakingly broad array of questions, which seems to be the …