by Jeffrey Hollender | May 21, 2012
A new report from the Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, and the Sierra Club evaluates which of the nation’s mega-banks provide the most money to the coal industry. Based on an analysis of the number of transactions that a bank was involved in, Bank of America...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 21, 2012
May 2012 — This fall of 2012, Jeffrey will teach “Sustaining Social Change in the New Economy: Opportunities and challenges for a just and equitable future” at New York University. The class is sponsored by, and was developed in conjunction with, the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 17, 2012
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a membership association that legislators and corporations pay to be a part of. In return, ALEC hands “model” bills from corporations to legislators advocating changes in the law to directly benefit the business’...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 15, 2012
Recently, Unilever and CEO Paul Polman have been one of my favorite examples of brave and unparallel leadership in the sustainability space. Unilever recently announced its progress one year into the implementation of its “Sustainable Living Plan,” providing a great...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 14, 2012
This press release was originally published on CSRwire and is accessible here. May 2012 — Social Venture Network (SVN) just announced the second group of inductees into the SVN Hall of Fame. Five “Environmental Evangelists” will be presented with the SVN Impact...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 14, 2012
The following is a speech I gave at the launch of a new solar project that will produce clean, renewable energy at two local schools, and will provide an estimated $300,000 in direct economic benefit to the city of Burlington. This project, located at Burlington High...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 10, 2012
Why is the former chief of Fannie Mae still a director of a public company as prominent as Goldman Sachs and Target? How can Charles O. Prince III, the former chief executive of Citigroup, who resigned under pressure in 2007 amid huge write-downs at the bank, be an...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 7, 2012
Recently, the EPA announced the 50 organizations that are using more than 15 terawatts (that’s a lot!) of clean energy annually. These 50 are avoiding carbon pollution equal to that created by the electricity used by more than 1.3 million U.S. homes each year. That’s...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 3, 2012
While I went to MIT’s Sustainability Summit to speak, one of the most compelling reasons to go was not for myself, but to hear Jeremy Grantham, co-founder and chief investment strategist at GMO, a Boston-based asset management firm with nearly $100 billion under...