April 14th, 2022 | Edition 10 Good Morning, April showers bring… what? So far, unrelenting global superpowers, soaring gasoline prices, and unpredictable lockdowns. At this point,

April 11th, 2022 | Edition 1 Good Morning, We are excited to introduce our ESG 5-Point Digest, which comes out at the top of every week.

April 6th, 2022 | Edition 9 Good Morning, We’ve been thinking a lot about change this week, and it appears that we’re not alone! We certainly

New regulations may be on the horizon that aim to prevent corporations from greenwashing their data – but will they have a positive effect on

With new regulations in place to guide ESG reporting, corporations are already making the move to embrace more sustainable practices. The race to reach meet

In the dust of COP26, and with the end of the calendar year a month back, streams of corporate ESG reports are making their way

Scientists have been discussing systems change since the mid 1900’s, so why focus on it now? In February 2021, the number of individuals plugging “systems change” into Google was the highest it’s been since 2007. The Covid-19 pandemic brought to light the deep rooted societal, economic, governmental issues (as well as many other -al, -ic, and -ism issues). Not only have these problems come to light, but also how intertwined they are; the sobering realization that in order to change something, we might have to change everything.

Many folks around the world are embracing the challenge of systems change. Personally, I’m excited to introduce you, readers, to some of the transformative methods, machinery, and mindsets poised to change the world. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but rather a demonstration of what systems change can look like. To change the systems that have been in place for years, decades, or even centuries, we will need entirely new ways of not just solving problems, but identifying them in the first place.

We use markets every day in our lives—they are places where buyers and sellers meet to exchange goods and services. A neighborhood farmers’ market is a market, as is Amazon or Alibaba. It is through that interaction between buyers and sellers that prices are determined for goods and services which, in turn, impacts the forces of supply and demand. While we most often come in touch with the endpoint of a market (the grocery store or a shopping mall), supply and demand are what drives how goods and services are invented, made, priced, and mass-produced throughout the world.

In a recent episode of her podcast, Supply Chain Revolution, Sheri Hinish asked the critical question about all the innovation taking place around markets for sustainable products: “Why aren’t these ideas scaling?” Yet here we are in 2021 – still not adopting markets that offer a clearly superior alternative. Even worse, all of us remain dependent on every one of those inherently unsustainable products to live our lives. We may own a Tesla and have solar panels on our roof but we continue buying cotton t-shirts, shipped to us by Amazon in carboard packages that are delivered by fossil fuel-powered ships, jets, trains, and trucks. I, for one, am guilty as charged.