by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 27, 2012
Most of what passes for “sustainability” isn’t actually sustainable at all. We have endlessly – and dangerously confused – “less bad” with “good.” Whether looking at a product or a company, sustainability ends up being mostly about less pollution, less waste, and the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 24, 2012
Our current system of pricing products and services ensures that society perpetually makes poor choices. Today we exclude most of the adverse social and environmental costs of producing goods from their price. The cost to clean up the groundwater pollution resulting...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 17, 2012
“Much of what has gone on can only be described by the words ‘moral deprivation.’ Something wrong happened to the moral compass of so many people working in the financial sector and elsewhere.” The Price of Inequality, Joseph E. Stiglitz By now we...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 5, 2012
Leaving Vermont yesterday, I never made it to Charlotte for the Democratic National Convention. After a five-hour delay in Washington, I gave up and spent the night. The delay allowed me to briefly watch the Convention and hear Julian Castro, the mayor of San Antonio...
