Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman published an essay in New York Times Magazine titled “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits” (pdf). The essay argues business managers who spend their companies’ money on social responsibility projects shareholders, employees, and customers don’t want to address are stealing from…

We need specific solutions, not vague calls for change. — Preventing catastrophic climate change requires one thing: reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. And doing that requires us to decarbonize our economy. How do we decarbonize? Many call for “system change” as the solution to the climate emergency. Climate strikes call for complete system change. Investors and…

Originally published May 8, 2020 at the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise. Why do companies have an easier time setting sustainability goals than achieving them? …