Auden Schendler

So... is ESG the path to save capitalism from itself or a bunch of greenwashing BS? @audenschendler.bsky.social and @mindylubber.bsky.social bring the answers on our latest:

If in the region, this is a free, not-to-miss talk about how green-talking corporations like @Microsoft are using AI to boost oil and gas extraction.

Is ESG BS? When it comes to addressing the causes of climate change, individual action is necessary but insufficient. The truth is that the government and big corporations need to do more.  Some companies have t...

Sustainable business and most of modern environmentalism simply enables our fossil fuel economy to proceed apace. What might abetter approach look like? #Terriblebeauty @climateone.org www.climateone.org/audio/esg-bs

Books for Social Innovators! (SSIR) A literary gift guide from SSIR

@audenschendler.bsky.social recommends "two books that are related in their iconoclasm" by David Graeber and @dsquareddigest.bsky.social

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Auden Schendler Wants to Ruin the Way You Think About Modern Environmentalism His new book, Terrible Beauty, argues that “fighting losing battles is a worthy cause.”

"I’m asking people to become citizens. Being a citizen is difficult — it’s messy, it’s tricky, you get in trouble,"
@audenschendler.bsky.social tells @jeva.bsky.social.

Read more below on the book that may change how you think about environmentalism:

Business Tapped Out of the Climate Fight. Here’s How to Get Back In. Despite the business community’s potential to be a powerful ally in the climate fight, it has largely been sidelined by free market ideologies that promote voluntary corporate sustainability over nece...

Meaningful progress on #climate change necessitates broader policy shifts and regulatory frameworks.

If business wants to play a meaningful role in climate action, that systemic change is where they’ll be focused, working with others.

Thanks @audenschendler.bsky.social.

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Reinventing Corporate Sustainability (SSIR) In Terrible Beauty, Auden Schendler argues that by focusing on incremental rather than systemic change, the corporate sustainability movement has played into the fossil-fuel industry’s hands.

"The implicit message to companies that think climate advocacy is about showing up at COP every year is that they are expending effort in the wrong arena."

Richard Roberts reviews @audenschendler.bsky.social's "Terrible Beauty"

Auden Schendler's "Terrible Beauty" In his new book "Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul," Aspen One's Senior Vice President of Sustainability…

#TerribleBeauty launches today. Here's a minute on what it's about...
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It's #TerribleBeauty launch day, and here's a preview of what's inside: blisterreview.com/podcasts/bli... @hbr.org.web.brid.gy