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...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 27, 2012
Dispatches from The New York Times/Shell Oil 2012 Energy Summit titled Earth 2050: The Food Water Energy Nexus. Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director, FoodFirst Institute for Food and Development Policy, says that of the one billion people who are chronically hungry,...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 25, 2012
Dispatches from The New York Times/Shell Oil 2012 Energy Summit titled Earth 2050: The Food Water Energy Nexus. In Houston, the cost of water over the last five years has skyrocketed from $.50-$1 to $5–$6. That’s a 500% to 600% increase. Joe Rozza, Global Water...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 23, 2012
Dispatches from The New York Times/Shell Oil 2012 Energy Summit titled Earth 2050: The Food Water Energy Nexus. Last week I was in Houston to attend an intimate gathering of about 50 people to participate in The New York Times/Shell Oil 2012 Energy Summit titled Earth...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 19, 2012
In October of 2011, the Harvard Business School cajoled nearly 10,000 of its 78,000 alumni to complete a questionnaire that was published on January 18, 2012. The result? Harvard alum are clearly glum. In fact, 71% of the Harvard graduates who are in business expect...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 10, 2012
In 2010, 2.3 million jobs in the United States were associated with the production of green goods and services, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports in its just released report on “EMPLOYMENT IN GREEN GOODS AND SERVICES – 2010.” What defines Green Goods and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 4, 2012
The answer: By avoiding tax payments and cutting its US workforce! No corporation has surpassed General Electric’s mastery of profit-maximization, or its use of public-relations (“corporate propaganda”) to mask its true aims behind the widely-supported...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 2, 2012
Powerful news: A recent study proves that sustainable banks deliver higher financial returns than some of the world’s largest financial institutions. A study commissioned by the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), compared the performance of 17 values-based...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 27, 2012
Out of the The New York Times unfolds a story that once again highlights the absence of morality and fair play that has come to represent the company we know as Goldman Sachs. Goldman’s own employee’s in Japan workers are unionizing. In the wake of 200,000 financial...
