The Second Edition of Sustainability at Work is now available!
Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for anyone who seeks both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society. In this thoroughly revised new edition, Marilyn Waite builds upon recent career trends to include two all-important themes that are redefining sustainability: justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion and climate-related career pathways. Through inspiring narratives and a structured framework, Sustainability at Work illustrates how sustainability can be incorporated into every imaginable career to impact the quadruple bottom line: environment, economy, society, and future generations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Background: Four Pillars of Sustainable Development
Chapter 2. Introduction: Sustainability and Careers
Chapter 3. Pursuing Sustainability in Science and Technology
Chapter 4. Pursuing Sustainability in Health Care
Chapter 5. Pursuing Sustainability in Law and Policy
Chapter 6. Pursuing Sustainability in Business, Economics, and Financial Services
Chapter 7. Pursuing Sustainability in Education and Research
Chapter 8. Pursuing Sustainability in Media and Entertainment
Chapter 9. Pursuing Sustainability in Climate-Related Careers
Chapter 10. Pursuing Sustainability through Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Chapter 11. Conclusion: Careers and the Quadruple Bottom Line
Most Recent Articles
- How the fossil fuel industry is fighting for legitimacy by using Big Tobacco’s playbook
- Investors should look to the Global South to scale climate solutions
Editor-at-Large Articles
- 3 green economy insights from China’s quintessential convening
- The compelling case for being ‘climate positive by design’
- Investing in China’s sustainable finance boom
- This African startup is reducing the footprint of running shoes
- The ESG benefits of cooperatives
- Why the US needs to get on track with high-speed rail
- When it comes to climate investment funds, diverse management is imperative
- Reprinted in Climate & Capital here
- The case for buying climate tech from BIPOC and women-owned suppliers
- B Lab co-CEO Anthea Kelsick: “Innovate against your model’ to address systemic racism
- We need a federal climate policy, but please ditch the name ‘Green New Deal’
The Innovators
- Kuli Kuli: A superstar of superfoods
- How SaLisa Berrien leads the ‘Lyft of energy’
- From Atlanta to Denver, Emrgy offers plug-and-play hope for hydropower
- Harvesting the beauty and utility of ‘ugly’ produce
- Inside Kathy Hannun’s quest to provide accessible household geothermal
- Feeling blue? How this entrepreneur revitalized a natural dye industry
- Aclima’s particulate vision maps air pollution
- How this economist-entrepreneur is cultivating a new market for organic products
- How this app is providing community mobility solutions and personal parenting options
- It’s a ball to keep microfibers out of the ocean
- Kiverdi CEO Lisa Dyson seeks to extract value from CO2
- 10Power aims to tap energy potential in this ‘stand-out’ island nation
Features/Quotes
Climate and Clean Energy Finance
- The age of climate finance regulation (in English)
- The age of climate finance regulation (in Chinese)
- Feature (Quote): Russia exclusions raise tough questions for passive investing
- European Commission’s Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (FISMA)
- Response to the Public Consultation: ESG Ratings and Sustainability Risks in Credit Ratings
- United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: 21st Century Economy: Protecting the Financial System from Risks Associated with Climate Change
- Written Testimony: Decarbonize the Economy to Address Systemic Climate-Related Financial Risks
- United States Department of Labor Possible Agency Actions to Protect Life Savings and Pensions from Threats of
Climate–Related Financial Risk
- Comment Letter to Employee Benefits Security Administration
- United States Securities and Exchange Commission
- Comments on S7-10-22 – The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors
- ISSB Comment Letter: Exposure Drafts IFRS S1 General Requirements and IFRS S2: Climate–related Disclosures
- CDP Feature: Why environmental progress must be explicitly anti-racist: a conversation with Marilyn Waite
- Euractiv OpEd: How to attract private finance for climate projects in developing countries
- Euractiv OpEd: Why natural gas is neither just nor transitional
- Forbes Feature: Meet The Woman Fighting Climate Injustice Through Changing Passive Investment
- Software Alone Won’t Fix Crumbling Infrastructure
- Financial Times OpEd: Carbon accounting should be a basic requirement for banks
- Financial Times Feature: How passive investment dulls the green wave
- Sifted’s Climate Tech newsletter: Brussels needs to respond to the US climate bill. Here are 4 things EU policymakers should to do
- The Wild West of regulating ESG investments
- Glaring omission in climate policy: Community financial institutions
- Hewlett Foundation:
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Letter on Climate Change Disclosures
- Aligning Passive Investment with Paris Goals
- Climate Finance Strategy 2018-2023
- Building a better banking system (with infographic)
- A year in review and what’s ahead for our climate finance strategy
- Q&A with Marilyn Waite: Financing climate and clean energy solutions
- As a member of the California Climate-Related Risk Disclosure Advisory Group: Developing Climate Risk Disclosure Practices for the State of California
- Arcadia Blog: Q&A with Marilyn Waite, clean energy finance expert
- Reuters: Building a better banking system
- ImpactAlpha Feature: Hewlett Foundation aims to activate retail banks for climate action
- Feature (Quote): The thorny truth about socially responsible investing
Medium
- Despairing about the Paris Accord? Here are ten specific ideas to cut carbon emissions
- To yield better clean energy investments, let’s start asking the right questions
- Why Energy Efficiency Matters
- Building an Energy Startup Hub
- Three Types of Energy Efficiency Ventures that Entrepreneurs Can Launch in 2016
Environmental and social aspects of textiles and clothing supply chain – Roadmap to sustainable textiles and clothing
Two Cities Review
Journal of Management and Sustainability
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy
Sustainable Water Resources in the Built Environment
Journal of Textile and Apparel, Technology and Management
