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NO POVERTY
Happy Sustainable Sunday with the SDGs! 836 million people live in extreme poverty. SDG #1 aims to end poverty in all its forms by the year 2030, donate what you don't use to help end poverty. Invest 2 minutes in No Poverty by watching this short video:...
SUSTAINABLE SUNDAYS WITH THE SDGS
Happy Sustainable Sunday with the SDGs! The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were unanimously adopted by world leaders from 193 countries at the United Nations Summit in 2015. The goals are a universal call to action to tackle the world's most pressing social,...
CUT THE BS! IT’S TIME TO FIX ESG’S JARGON PROBLEM
The accepted wisdom is that we are awash in a sea of terms and acronyms that all more or less mean the same thing: ESG, sustainability, impact, SRI, socially conscious investing, values-based investing and so on. But wait – somehow, the accepted wisdom is also that...
CUT THE BS! IT’S TIME TO FIX ESG’S JARGON PROBLEM
The accepted wisdom is that we are awash in a sea of terms and acronyms that all more or less mean the same thing: ESG, sustainability, impact, SRI, socially conscious investing, values-based investing and so on. But wait – somehow, the accepted wisdom is also that...
EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK AND SO MUCH MORE
According to the National Women's Law Center, the overall wage gap for women over the past decade has remained steady at about 80 cents for every dollar earned by men. That translates to about 64 extra work days per year for women to reach pay parity. This gap is even...
DECADE OF WOMEN WITH THOMSON REUTERS 2018
Lawrence Ford speaking on a panel for the 2018 Decade of Women with Thomson Reuters: https://youtu.be/n7udlfQfYCg
DECADE OF WOMEN WITH THOMSON REUTERS 2018
Lawrence Ford speaking on a panel for the 2018 Decade of Women with Thomson Reuters: https://youtu.be/n7udlfQfYCg
WHY THE GREEN NEW DEAL COULD BE ESG’S MOON LANDING
Is the Green New Deal compatible with the free market? And – let’s remember why we’re here – is it investable? The short answers are yes and yes, and the ideas contained within it are not particularly revolutionary if you have spent any time looking at ESG...
EMERGING NEW CIVILIZATION INITIATIVE
Thank you World Academy of Arts and Science and The Club of Rome for hosting the Emerging New Civilization Initiative being held in Dubrovnik, Croatia. It is an honor to be part of these critical discussions aiming to amplify the paradigm shift towards seeing the...
CONSCIOUS CAPITAL IN STOCKHOLM
Conscious Capital’s mission brought us to Stockholm a couple weeks ago. Striking up a conversation with a cab driver I ask him "how is life"? He tells me with a huge smile– he lives 15 minutes outside of the city, children are all in school, has a retirement pension...