2016 A Hopeful Year for Sustainability Innovation? Technology Experts Share Their I Hope List Happy New York 2016 to our friends and colleagues! What are your hopes for sustainability in this new calendar year – the pages are blank, so fill in what you would like to see happening. Elaine Hsieh, director of VERGE at the Greenbiz Group, did that for us with her “biggest hopes for sustainability technology in 2016,” which Greenbiz presented in a year end post. The result is “19 for ’16,” answers to Elaine’s questions posed to VERGE leaders. (The VERGE platform covers the intersections of technology, science, art, and culture). You’ll see brief, byte size responses from such companies and organizations as Google, Zipcar, SunPower, California Clean Energy Fund, AECOM, Rockefeller Foundation, Honeywell, NASA, and others. Example: Tom Werner, CEO of SunPower says “when it comes to innovative technology, I’m confident that sustainability will move one step closer to ‘default status’ across industries…” Here at G&A Institute we are very encouraged by the convergence of many important trends and developments that are pointing to a positive year of advancement of sustainability concepts and approaches in the corporate and investment communities. We’ll be commenting on these (our list is up to about three dozen and growing) in the pages of our Sustainability Update blog and in this newsletter for you. And as always we are here to help your company as your trusted advisers on Sustainability -- please contact us to set up a catch-up call (for our old friends), or an intro call (for our new friends) to explore how we can help! Top Stories of the Week 19 for ’16: Biggest sustainability hopes for 2016
(Monday - December 28, 2015)
Source: GreenBiz - Now, for the next installment of our three-part VERGE series, we asked VERGE leaders a second question: "What’s your biggest hope for sustainability technology in 2016?" Sustainability in Focus Sustainability and Social Impact: Will it Lead Business Strategy in the Coming Years?
(Monday - December 21, 2015)
Source: Sustainable Brands - When I first heard of the Sustainable Brands conference from our friends at Forum For The Future - I couldn't wait to go to one of the events. Luckily for me, it wasn't long until they brought the event to Asia, kicking off in...
2015 in review: Sustainability equals growth
(Monday - December 21, 2015)
Source: Global Cosmetics News - If there was one recurring theme to the news agenda in 2015, sustainability was it. Barely a week went by without a sourcing pledge or triumphant eco-success story. The Strong case for sustainable capitalism
(Monday - December 21, 2015)
Source: GreenBiz - Heard the Stone Soup story? That’s what jumped to mind when I got news of Maurice Strong’s death Nov. 28. He had been the single most important champion of sustainable capitalism for decades and a huge influence on my thinking. I... Systematic Sustainability Is the Goal of New Fair-Trade Initiative
(Wednesday - December 23, 2015)
Source: EcoMonitor - It used to be that coffee and bananas were among the few products that carried a fair trade label, and made people feel good about their purchases during trips to the local supermarket. Nowadays, there are a vast number of... 2016: the year consumers stop caring about sustainability - and business starts
(Thursday - December 24, 2015)
Source: The Guardian - For years, consumers have propelled the push for sustainability. But if the market turns its attention elsewhere, will companies stay the course? Sustainability: Moving Toward the Mainstream
(Thursday - December 24, 2015)
Source: Supply Chain Management Review - Editor's Note: This is a rebuttal to the recently published op/ed piece by Elizabeth Sturcken, managing director of the Environmental Defense Fund. Chipotle's Sustainability Hypocrisy Could Eclipse Its Food Poisoning Fiasco
(Monday - December 28, 2015)
Source: Huff Post - The number of recent food poisoning cases linked to the fast-food restaurant soared this week to more than 500 with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announcing 6 additional cases in four more states: Pennsylvania,... Can Sustainability Pros Break Out of These Six Silos?
(Tuesday - December 29, 2015)
Source: Triple Pundit - Silos occur naturally in organizations, and companies struggle to get information out of a silo and into a broader organization. A lack of information on sourcing, for example, can cause a company to wake up one morning and find... Cultivating Sustainability: How to Ensure Your Company's Green Initiatives Take Root
(Tuesday - December 29, 2015)
Source: Business.com - Unless you’re the one who gets stuck cleaning out the year-old leftovers from the break room refrigerator, the connection between the terms “company culture” and “ecosystem” may not be something that you really consider. The Top 5 Corporate Sustainability Stories of 2015
(Wednesday - December 30, 2015)
Source: Forbes - 2015 was a roller-coaster year for business and sustainability around the globe, with Google, Unilever, Tesla and Shell making headlines. Momentum built from the , through the Sustainable Development Goals and ended with the... Top sustainability stories of 2015 – in pictures
(Wednesday - December 30, 2015)
Source: The Guardian - From Davos and predictions of a chocolate crisis to the MRSA superbug in supermarket pork and the VW emissions scandal Courageous Companies: 7 Corporate Sustainability Pioneers Shaking Things Up
(Wednesday - December 30, 2015)
Source: Sustainable Brands - The bold thinking and actions taken by corporate sustainability trailblazers often challenge the status quo and alter the concept of a company’s role in society. The following companies are leaders. They have taken principled... ESG Issues & Players Higher Rates Will Dominate Markets in 2016
(Tuesday - December 29, 2015)
Source: Fox Business - Will the Federal Reserve’s decision in December to start raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade help deflate the same stock market bubble the central bank has been accused of helping to inflate over the... Socially Responsible Investing Comes of Age
(Wednesday - December 30, 2015)
Source: Wealth Management.com - There is an evolution under way in socially responsible investing. It no longer means just screening out certain securities from portfolios according to ethical considerations (no sin stocks!), but investing with an eye toward... 2015, the year that was: Environment + Energy
(Monday - December 28, 2015)
Source: The Conversation - Environmental news, as a rule, doesn’t deal in triumphs. So the sight of leaders holding their arms aloft in celebration after clinching the historic Paris climate agreement will stand as a defining image of 2015 – a moment of... 2016 Forecasted to Be the Hottest Year Ever Recorded
(Wednesday - December 30, 2015) Associated Profiles : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC)
Source: Truth Out - The Met Office's 2016 forecast is certainly dramatic and, if realized, would be towards the upper end of the range predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their most recent assessment... Asset Managers, US Pension Funds,
Sovereign Wealth Funds 2016 will be a year of living dangerously for the global economy
(Wednesday - December 30, 2015)
Source: The Guardian - Economic forecasting is a mug’s game. One thing that has been learned from the financial crisis and Great Recession is that even those equipped with the most sophisticated models get it wrong, sometimes spectacularly. Report say Iowa public employee pension fund has $5 billion shortfall
(Monday - December 28, 2015) Associated Profiles : Iowa Public Employees Retirement System (IPERS)
Source: Daily Journal - The Des Moines Register (http://dmreg.co/1OG1lVe) reports that Gov. Terry Branstad was briefed Tuesday on the status of the Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System, which has 346,000 members. The report says the... Largest 10 Direct Sovereign Wealth Fund Deals of 2015
(Monday - December 28, 2015) Associated Profiles : Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
Source: swfinstitute.org - Wealth funds backing these monstrous deals are the China Investment Corporation (CIC), Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), Norway's sovereign wealth fund and the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA).... | Check It Out...
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