by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 20, 2011
Al Gore and David Blood, his partner in the multi-billion private equity fund, Generation Investment Management, recently opined on “How businesses can embrace environmental, social and governance metrics,” on the Op-Ed page of The Wall Street Journal, an unlikely...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 21, 2011
So here’s the good news: we absolutely have the ability to solve our current global environmental, social and economic crises. The not-so-good news: Do we have the will to do it? From my perspective, the challenge is not about technology, but rather about...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 12, 2011
The Dorothy Day Apartments on Riverside Drive in West Harlem are shockingly beautiful. The building is one of six in the neighborhood run by Broadway Housing Communities. Charles Blow, an excellent new addition to The New York Times Op-Ed pages, went to visit. His...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 11, 2011
With every piece of legislation, every political decision, every empty campaign promise, we have moved further and further away from a democracy benefitting all Americans and closer to an oligarchy serving very few Americans – the 1%. It’s a dangerous development that...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 10, 2011
More than a decade ago, The Ecologist cited the insurance industry as the single most significant force addressing the challenges of global climate change. Large European insurance firms were pressuring the boards of global companies to develop strategies to mitigate...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 5, 2011
In September, Don Peck, writing in The Atlantic, provided an exceptionally thoughtful and detailed analysis of the fate of the middle class. What has contributed to its emergence as the economic and political foundation of American life? What has transpired to put its...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 23, 2011
Contrast this. This August, financier Leon D. Black celebrated his 60th with a blowout at his oceanfront estate in Southampton. After a buffet dinner featuring a seared foie gras station, some 200 guests took in a show by Elton John, who was paid at least $1 million...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 21, 2011
Any business that considers itself responsible and sustainable must pay its employees a living wage. Not a minimum wage – a living wage. In many American communities, families working in low-wage jobs make insufficient income to live locally given the local cost of...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 9, 2011
Unemployment shatters families, communities, self-respect and the belief in a positive future. We have failed – or at least are failing – to provide an opportunity that is so basic to human dignity and well-being. An opportunity to participate in what is called “the...
