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How To Stop Lying To Our Kids About Climate Change

Brad Zarnett

February 28, 2023

Culture and Leadership, Energy, Cities and Climate Change, system change

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How ethically bankrupt politicians are paving the way towards ecocide

Brad Zarnett

January 5, 2021

Is CSR Working, Energy, Cities and Climate Change, political leadership

Reckless and dangerous is the only honest description of climate policy 2050 net zero.

Can a Culture of Capitalism Ever Support a Truly Green Leader?

Brad Zarnett

September 3, 2020

Is CSR Working, system change, Culture and Leadership

It’s as if they’re saying, I fully support that we should give up environmentally destructive behaviours…as long as it doesn’t inconvenience me.

The Corporate Elite Must Reconcile if They Are Wealth Hoarders or Climate Protectors.

Brad Zarnett

October 24, 2019

Is CSR Working, Business and Sustainability, business culture

We must drop the neoliberal fairy-tale and accept that business using the profit motive has been a spectacular failure.

Are CEOs finally becoming “woke” to their societal responsibilities?

Brad Zarnett

October 24, 2019

Is CSR Working, Business and Sustainability

It felt like an obvious PR stunt but almost no large media outlets characterized it that way.

Is CSR Working?

Responses to: “The Unholy Marriage Between Crony Capitalism & Sustainability”

Brad Zarnett

January 14, 2019

system change, Is CSR Working, Business and Sustainability

When confronted with the idea that regulations could move us much more quickly to address our urgent global environmental challenges, the response is often that we, the consumer, need to change our wasteful and polluting behaviour.

The Unholy Marriage Between Crony Capitalism and Sustainability

Brad Zarnett

December 20, 2018

Is CSR Working, Business and Sustainability, Culture and Leadership

It doesn’t help when a corporation responds to a crisis in this way and makes it sound like an important step.

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Business won’t operate sustainably but we can’t regulate them or else? I don’t accept that.

Brad Zarnett

October 24, 2019

Is CSR Working, Business and Sustainability

I agree, they can do more, anyone can step up to do more…the question is will they?

Companies Must “Zoom Out” For a Sustainable Planet

Brad Zarnett

August 6, 2019

Is CSR Working, system change, Business and Sustainability

Companies need to drop the charade and admit that their efforts to be sustainable have largely failed. It’s time to stop pretending to be part of the solution and come back to the table and be a real partner for positive change.

Why the DNC Doesn’t Want a Climate Debate — It Actually Makes Perfect Sense.

Brad Zarnett

June 26, 2019

Is CSR Working, Energy, Cities and Climate Change, Culture and Leadership

We’re not talking about a few tweaks here and there, but rather, a dramatic shift in the ideological approach and the narrative of the role of business.

The Narrative “Greening of Business” Is a Joke But We’re Not Laughing

Brad Zarnett

June 17, 2019

Is CSR Working, Business and Sustainability

The Greening of Business and Win-Win solutions via CSR, Impact Investing and Profit with Purpose appear to just be a cover for corporate elites and billionaires that distract the public while they continue to plunder the planet and add to their billions.

CSR in Canada

Meet 2018’s Top 30 Under 30 in Sustainability

Corporate Knights

November 26, 2018

CSR in Canada, Canada's Top 30 under 30

One act at a time, these winners are tackling the big sustainability problems of our day and have no plans on stopping. Our supply of ingenuity … involves bo...

Canada makes a landmark $800 million commitment to social finance, purpose and innovation

TSSS Contributor

November 23, 2018

CSR in Canada, Social Impact

Another reason why expansion of Alberta’s oil/tar sands has a weak business case

The Energy Mix

March 14, 2018

CSR in Canada, Energy, Cities and Climate Change

Writers tackle various scenarios of the coming climate crisis with “Cli-Fi”

TSSS Contributor

March 9, 2018

CSR in Canada, Energy, Cities and Climate Change

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Part II: How Billionaire Greed Ruined a Perfectly Good Strategy Called Corporate Sustainability (and Democracy). 3 Possible Pathways Forward

Brad Zarnett

April 29, 2019

Is CSR Working, Business and Sustainability

There’s still time to make things better, but we must acknowledge the truth about what is at the core of our climate plundering and wealth concentrating system.

How Billionaire Greed Ruined a Perfectly Good Strategy Called Corporate Sustainability. (Part 1)

Brad Zarnett

April 21, 2019

Is CSR Working, Culture and Leadership

Despite all of the CSR inspired positive inputs that are being added to the capitalist recipe, the end product is becoming more brutal and difficult to swallow.

Expedition: See the gigantic glaciers of Greenland, now melting at record rates.

TSSS Contributor

April 8, 2019

Energy, Cities and Climate Change

Greenland is the best place in the world to see the scale of the problem as ice sheets and glaciers melt at speeds up to four times faster than just a decade ago.

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Jim Harris - Disruptive Innovation

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