by Amy Seidman | Data, SB, Sustainability, Thought Leadership, Video
Information is power and the goal of using metrics is to analyze solutions and measurements to make important changes in business also helps to create transparency. Bonnie Nixon talks about the goal of developing and leveraging the data to enable companies and people...
by Shana Rappaport | Ecosystem, Supply Chain, Verge
It’s easy to talk about companies needing to understand climate risks in their supply chains. It’s a lot harder to do something about it. Risk and supply chains were woven tightly throughout the conversation at the Climate Leadership Conference last week...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
If you have parents, your social activism career just might, with any luck at all, turn out OK. For some social sector activists, parents are hurdles to be pushed out of the way. The poem Journey for Justice repeats an time-worn generational story, “i struggle...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
To describe itself to itself and to attract new converts, it is common these days for the nonprofit sector to talk in terms of investment – obscuring the legal and legitimate lines between grants and donations versus opportunities to make money by doing good...
by Shana Rappaport | Resilient Cities, Sustainability, Verge
The new word from City Hall is coopetition. In a world where metropolises are vying to be seen as climate (or cleantech or green) leaders, some mayors are concluding that they can move further, faster by cooperating as well as competing. It’s a new chapter in the...
by Jonathan Lewis | Cafe Impact, Impact, Learn
Fighting the good fight means big challenges, big ideas, big solutions. In humble contrast, the menial and mind-numbing grunt work required of the social change-maker is tiring and tedious. Accurately and also arrogantly, you know grunt work is below your station,...