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Out and About at New York Climate Week (opens the original)
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I wrote about NY Climate Week in my Friday Conversations of the Week last week, but of course, this is a big, overwhelming thing, and my own impressions only go so far.Since I have brilliant friends, I asked several of them this week to share their takes, too. I love the range of perspectives here. I’m making this post free to everyone, because that’s the overall spirit of these reflections.<p class="cta-ca
The Sustainability Double Bind, Women in Tech Aren’t Happy, Age of Oligarchy, NY Climate Week (opens the original)
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Age of oligarchyOur era is often described as a new Gilded Age. In fact, wealth inequality in the US is worse than before the French Revolution.By some measures, the wealth gap is actually worse than it was then:Consider the total wealth personally controlled by some of these figures. Rockefeller, the richest of the Gilded Age tycoons, died worth the equivalent of approximately $30bn, adjusted for inflation. Not bad, clearly. But compare that to Musk’s net worth. The Tesla and Starlink chief may
The Sustainability Double Bind (opens the original)
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“We’ve got this fragmentation in Europe and in the US; they're saying to do different things. One is saying go harder on sustainability, and one is saying don't do this at all...It’s a complex, contradictory, pressure cooker that we're in, basically. I don't know what else to call it."“There’s a pretty clear pathway for a lot of us to become compliance and regulation professionals. And I don't really know what that looks like or if that's really what everybody has signed up for.""Companies were
The End of Win-Win, Writing about Loss, The Sustainability State of Mind, Home Insurance, No One is Coming to Save Us (opens the original)
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Writing about lossIt’s National Suicide Prevention Month. I wanted to share two moving, helpful, and beautiful perspectives, both written by close friends.If you know me, you know I rarely stray too far into personal topics on LinkedIn. I’ve certainly made passing references to my difficult divorce, how much I love my family, and so on. But mostly, I am here to write about work, and I want it to stay that way.This week I decided to break with this approach and share something difficult. I lost m
Grief and Pragmatism in Corporate Sustainability (opens the original)
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“I am noticing something about my generation of women in the corporate workplace. They are all asking, do I keep this up, or burn it all to the ground and start a goat farm? Because apparently, these are our only two choices.” Anonymous“Corporate sustainability deserves plenty of criticism[s]. Blaming the people who have spent decades trying to change companies for not having changed them enough isn’t one of them.” Henk CampherMany corporate sustainability practitioner
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