At the Money: Woke Investing vs. Values-Based Investing
At the Money: Woke Investing vs. Values-Based Investing Meir Statman, February 28, 2024 There’s been...
Is the ESG Craze Really Fading?
Most people don’t know that it is the editors, not the writers, who craft headlines. This should be common knowledge...
Business Not As Usual: Foundations of ESG
Robert Schwartz and Robert Zevin were Wall Street curiosities. At the height of an era defined by Ivan Boesky’s mantra of greed,...
Global Shift from Fossil Fuels?
Source: Bloomberg Green Thirty years ago, more than half of all power generation came from coal and natural gas. Thirty...
MiB: Brian Deese, Blackrock’s Global Head of Sustainable...
This week, we speak with Brian Deese, Global head of Sustainable Investing for Blackrock. The firm manages over $7 trillion in assets. He...
Biggest ESG Funds Are Beating the Market
Source: Bloomberg Green Nine of the biggest ESG mutual funds in the U.S. outperformed the Standard & Poor’s...
Architecture and Climate Change
These are some really fascinating data points about how real estate consumes energy and impacts the climate. 36%: The percentage of...
Detailed Maps of American Auto Emissions
The data series here from the New York Times is really amazing: You can pull up any metro region in the country, see if its emissions are...
Massive crater under Greenland’s ice points to...
Source: Science This is a wild story — check it out: On a bright July day 2 years ago, Kurt Kjær was in a helicopter flying...
Nat Gas Surpasses Coal for Electricity Generation
Source: NYT Its hard to argue with the data here: Coal was the major and majority source of energy for electrical generation for...