Green Matters – September 7, 2020

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Insights for the conscious investor.

September 7th, 2020

Corporate Social & Environmental Responsibility: It’s time to step up.

  • Redefining “Business as Usual”: A webinar on stakeholder capitalism (Sept 14, 2020) (SOCAP)

  • Reimagining a world where CEOs have moral obligation to every human being who works for them (TED Talk)

  • Remaking capitalism, B-Corps (ConsciousCompany)

  • Substantial increase in sustainability reporting regulations around the world  (3blmedia)

Tech & Innovation: Unlimited possibility; the good, the bad, the transformative. 

  • The future Is coming: The technology revolution of the roaring 2020s (Yadeni) 

  • Visualizing the social media universe in 2020  (VisualCapitalist)

  • How technology moves from disruption to invisibility (Ritholtz) 

  • The four internets: the US vs. the EU vs. India vs. China (Stratechery)

  • The ingredients for innovation (FarnamStreet)

Trends by Generation: History is seasonal. 

  • New Yorkers are fleeing to the suburbs: ‘the demand is insane’ (NYT)

  • Generation work-from-home may never recover (the Atlantic)

  • Gen Z pushing brands to do better (PublicGoods)

  • How financial services will be more commonly embedded into other businesses (Medium)

  • ESG investing is winning the popularity contest among millennials, gen Z (ETFTrends)

Social Justice, Diversity, & Ethics: No more tradeoffs.

  • Female-managed funds outperform all male rivals (MarketWatch)

  • Visualizing the racial wealth gap (VisualCapitalist)  

  • The child-care crisis punishes women in health care (Washington Post)

  • The age of Corporate Social Justice (HBR)

Solutions: Don’t doubt human ingenuity.

  • UN Advisor: Divert national military budgets to climate change and UN sustainability programmes (Watts)

  • Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being (NewScientist)

  • Children raised near greener areas have higher IQs, study finds(BigThink) 

Odd Lots: A little bit of this, a little bit of that, a little bit of oh that’s interesting… 

  • The financial therapists helping wealthy people cope with change (FT)

  • Inside the company trying to solve the global bicycle shortage (Marker)

  • Watch US transportation trends as they evolve (QuiverQuant)

  • The ruining of assumptions: digital interconnectedness, labor shifts, pax Americana, and media consolidation (CollaborativeFund)

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