At the 16th Wall Street Green Summit in New York in March, I heard from 100 sustainability leaders, as well as financiers, lawyers and government leaders such as Catherine McKenna, Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, about the latest trends in...
I’ve always had a deep-seated distrust of big business. Maybe it’s because I grew up with a social worker and teacher as parents, or because my first job out of school was with a nonprofit focused on fighting corporate abuses. Whatever the reason, this wariness...
Mike Elchinger is a Project Leader in the Project Development and Finance Advisory Group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). For over 10 years Mike has worked on engagements as a project manager and analyst providing environmental, economic and...
Published in the Harvard Business Review, June 17, 2016. The landscape of American corporations is changing. Since the financialization of the economy in the late 1970s, corporate governance practices have tightly linked the purpose of business with maximizing...
When looking into business schools, I met with many a finance guru in investment and private wealth management to better understand the crossroads of sustainable impact and finance. My questions were met mostly with blank stares—and subsequent explanations that...
Erb Faculty Member, Tom Lyon opines that although Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway's record of astute financial moves is hard to argue with, he may be missing the mark in terms of under-estimating the pace and acceleration of climate change and what that...
This blog was originally posted on the Cultivating Change: Agriculture and Food Security Blog. Ian Robinson recently returned from a Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) assignment in Panama working with another Partners’ project called EducaFuturo. Below he shares his experience:...
The Basics of Solar Financing Background You might say the solar industry is doing well. There’s a plethora of statistics that can be used to back up this assertion, but the graph below may sum up the picture best. Installation prices are falling, adoption is growing,...
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On Sunday, September 13th, Erb Students met with John Denniston (Erb SAC Member) and Tony Salas to learn more about their recently launched for-profit impact company called Shared-X. Topics of discussion included compelling arguments for business to take the lead on...