Green Matters – November 9, 2020

Social Enterprise: Don’t doubt human ingenuity.

• The city of San Francisco just passed an ‘Overpaid Executive Tax’, which adds a 0.1% tax on companies whose executives earn 100 times more than the average worker (nbc)

• How to run a successful business while elevating humanity (inc)

• Seven emerging issues that will shape sustainable business (thefastforward)

• How working from home could revitalize rust belt cities (theconversation)

   

Markets & Finance: Make the irrational, rational. 

• Why financial advisors should care about Bitcoin (coinbase)

• World’s largest banks invested more than $2.6 trillion in sectors causing biodiversity loss and wildlife destruction in 2019 (triplepundit)

• How economically damaging could new lockdowns be? (economist) 

• Necessity plus opportunity yield fastest growth of US new business applications since 2007 (wsj)

   

Social Consciousness: A humanity revolution. 

• Podcast: How to Succeed by Being Authentic (Hint: Carefully) (Ep. 438) (freakonomics) 

• Does being an ethical consumer go far enough? (atmos.earth)

• Policymakers turning to Indigenous leaders for their knowledge of burning techniques that stop the spread of wildfires (nytimes)

   

Time for Renewables: Unlimited possibility; the good, the bad, the transformative.

• New advances in solar energy technology include floating solar farms and infrared night panels (asme)

• World first: Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel (newatlas)

• New plan charts path to zero-carbon US economy by 2050 (triplepundit)

• Green Hydrogen: Could It Be Key to a Carbon-Free Economy? (yale360) 

• 100% solar, wind and batteries is just the start — the ‘super’ power they produce will change the world (utilitydrive)