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Author Archives: Marcy Murninghan
Truth in Paradox: Freedom’s Eve and Freedom’s Wave
On this first day of the New Year and decade, let us celebrate paradox. Both light and matter co-exist, just as good and evil, right and wrong, past and present — and, some argue, future. Waves and particles, that’s my … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 13th Amendment, Bethel AME, civil rights movement, Declaration of Independence, democracy, Emancipation Proclamation, Jon Meacham, loop theory, Murray Gell-Mann, quantum physics, Rev. Dr. Ray Hammond, self-governance, string theory, Watch Night
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Money Power in the Public Interest: From “Follow the Money” to “Leverage the Money”
The TakeAway: Amazon’s recent purchase of Whole Foods continues a pattern of disruption in both retail and the wider economy that’s unstoppable. It’s part of a massive shift in jobs and income, that exacerbates income and wealth inequality. Rather than … Continue reading
Posted in American public life, Automation, Civic engagement, Ethics and Values, Fiduciary, Inequality, Investor Governance, Politics, Proxy Voting, Stakeholder Engagement, Sustainable Investing, Wage Gap
Tagged Amazon, Anne Case, automation, Brookings Institution, civic fiduciary, clean energy, Cornerstone Capital, deaths of despair, digital commerce, European Central Bank, housing, incarceration, income inequality, infrastructure, investor governance, Investor Research Responsibility Institute (IRRCi), jobs, Lawyers'Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, opioid addiction, peer-to-peer, Pew Research Center, Prison Policy Initiative, racism, retail, retail apocalypse, Robocalypse, Sir Angus Deaton, wealth inequality, Zevin Asset Management
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Remembering Mary Tyler Moore
The TakeAway: Mary Tyler Moore was emblematic for many of us who came up during the 1970s, confronting barriers to personhood whose shards still remain. Less than five days after the Women’s Marches, she made her exit, but leaves behind … Continue reading
Posted in Media & Entertainment, Notable People
Tagged Mary Tyler Moore, Ms. magazine, Women's Marches
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Children of Light, Children of Darkness: 2017’s Protagonists
It must be understood that the children of light are foolish not merely because they underestimate the power of self-interest among the children of darkness. They underestimate this power among themselves. Reinhold Neibuhr, 1944 The TakeAway: Periodically, democracy confronts mass … Continue reading
Posted in American public life, Civic engagement, Ethics and Values, political economy, political philosophy, Reinhold Niebuhr
Tagged 2017 challenges
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Fulfilling America’s Promise: Build Equity, Bridge the Gap
The TakeAway: As we celebrate Independence Day, it’s time to rededicate ourselves to those very ideals on which our nation was founded: liberty, opportunity, and justice for all. That means bridging the equity gap that undermines the American dream and … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Governance, Ethics and Values, Fiduciary, Investor Governance, Networked Citizenship, Politics, Public Policy, Stakeholder Engagement, Sustainable Investing, Wage Gap
Tagged "America", 4th of July, American Dream, Charleston church massacre, equity gap, fiduciary, Frank Pasquale, Geoffrey Hodgson, Ground Truth Project, nuclear waste, opportunity gap, police killings, racism, Samuel Francis Smith, Ta-Nehisi Coates, William Lloyd Garrison
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Mesh Networks, Leadership, and Democracy’s Promise
The TakeAway: This election season and Veterans Day provide a great time to reflect on the state of our democracy, which is ailing badly. It’s also time to think about ways of healing it, while achieving sustainable peace and … Continue reading
Posted in Civic Technology, Data Visualization, Ethics and Values, Interactive Technology, Net Neutrality, Networked Citizenship, Notable People, Open Government, Open Knowledge, Politics, Public Policy, Stakeholder Engagement, Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Peace and Prosperity, Uncategorized, Web 2.0
Tagged Baby Boomers, Bob Herbert, Civic Stewardship Brigade, civic technology, dark money, data visualization, data-smart governance, Donella (Dana) Meadows, Forum for Cities in Transition, Generation X, Generation Y, James Luther Adams, mesh networks, Michael Walzer, Millennials, Moakley Chair for Peace and Reconciliation, Open Government, open knowledge, Padraig O'Malley, predictive analytics, prophethood of all believers, Robert Bellah, Rockefeller Republicans, Stephen Goldsmith, Susan Crawford, The Responsive City, Thomas M. Menino, urban mechanics, Veterans Day, William Bradford
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Smart Cities and Sustainable Development: Where Hope and History Meet
The Question: “How can cities contribute to the advancement of sustainable development and address issues including water, energy and waste?” The task of the coming city is not essentially different: its mission is to put the highest concerns of man … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Public Policy, Sustainable Cities
Tagged Abu Dhabi, Bauhaus, Brookings Institution, Bruce Katz, Community Development Corporations, Elinor Ostrom, Ford Foundation, Forum for Cities in Transition, Gray Areas Program, Lewis Mumford, Martha Derthick, Masdar City, Metropolitan Governance, Model Cities, New Towns, New Towns In-Town, Padraig O'Malley, Paul Ylvisaker, polycentric, Robert C. Wood, Rumi, The Architects Collaborative (TAC), Vincent Ostrom, War on Poverty
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The Power of Two, Plus You! OpenLetter2013
The Takeaway: Two friends from Boston, increasingly alarmed by the dearth of meaningful action on climate change, decided to take matters into their own hands. The pair are crowdfunding a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal calling out the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Ethics and Values, Fiduciary, Media & Entertainment, Notable People, Politics, Public Policy, Sustainable Investing
Tagged Civil Rights Act of 1964, climate change, Deb Nicholson, indiegogo, Jordyn Bonds, Joshua Gay, Mike Gintz, moral outrage, OpenLetter2013, Wall Street Journal, Willy Loman
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Trustees Are Not Thermometers
Fifth in a Series: Time to Talk About the Public Interest The TakeAway: In the United States, key to our political form of representative self-governance is the idea of good trusteeship, of stewardship, of wise statecraft. The same holds for corporate … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics and Values, Fiduciary, Investor Governance
Tagged Alasdair MacIntyre, Ceres, civic stewardship, Corporate Governance, director, fiduciary, Hauser Center, Holly Gregory, National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), Peter Dobkin Hall, stewardship, trustee
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Civic Virtue as the Animating Ideal
Fourth in a Series: Time to Talk About the Public Interest The TakeAway: Despite the great strides made toward incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into economic decision making, these ideas are untethered from a moral paradigm or ethos … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics and Values, Human Rights, Investor Governance, Politics, Proxy Voting, Public Policy, Stakeholder Engagement
Tagged Agent Orange, anti-apartheid, Bob Massie, Campaign GM, civic virtue, common good, common goods, Dow Chemical, Eastman Kodak, Episcopal Church, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), John Winthrop, Jr., Kodak-FIGHT Campaign, March on Washington, New York City Pension Funds, Project on Corporate Responsibility, public interest, religion and public life, Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, Saul Alinsky, South Africa, TIAA-CREF
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Back to the Future: Apocalypse Now
Image made by Mary Naber King Third in a Series: Time to Talk About the Public Interest The TakeAway: In a society saturated with market values, we need to recoup the idea of civic virtue, and the civic moral obligations … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics and Values, Fiduciary, Politics, Public Policy
Tagged civic virtue, Enlightenment, fiduciary, governance, Harvard College, Harvard Islamic Finance Project, IRRC Institute, John Winthrop, Modern Portfolio Theory, money and morality, public interest, Steve Lydenberg, sustainability, trusteeship
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Loose Canons and Apocalypse Now: Unveiling the Ethics in the Fiduciary Ethic
Second in a Series: Time to Talk About the Public Interest The TakeAway: This essay posits that the idea of fiduciary duty, with its legal and economic constructs, rests upon on a foundation spanning centuries of insights and wisdom about … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics and Values, Fiduciary, Public Policy
Tagged Apocalypse, Book of Revelation, Carlin Romano, civic virtue, Cold War, Elaine Pagels, ethics, fiduciary, fiduciary duty, fiduciary ethic, Gnostic, Jefferson Pooley, John Rawls, Mark Solovey, Michael Sandel, Modern Portfolio Theory, Nag Hammadi, Rakesh Khurana, rationality, reason, Steve Lydenberg, stewardship, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Boston Foundation, Thomas Kuhn
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Fighting the Fury Once Again: 14 Actions We Can Take
The TakeAway: Yet another deadly tornado has ripped through Oklahoma, killing at least 24, including 9 elementary school children. It came on the heels of severe weather yesterday, which generated at least two dozen tornadoes across Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa and … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Natural Disasters
Tagged .350.org, Bill McKibben, Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants, Carbon Tracker Initiative, Cary Krosinsky, Charles David Keeling, climate change, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Gina McCarthy, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), Marathon bombing, Mark Campanale, Mauna Loa, Moore, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Network for Sustainable Financial Markets, Oklahoma, Pieter P. Tans, Plaza Towers Elementary School, Ralph Keeling, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Sherman Teichman, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Trucost, Tufts University, UC San Diego, wind shear
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Note to MurnPost Subscribers about “Environmentalism 2.0: Young People Lead the Way”
Note to MurnPost subscribers: Due to a technical problem, today’s Earth Day post by Tristanne Davis was published without subscriber notification. We’re sorry about that, but now have fixed it. Alas, we’re unable to resend the link without reposting it, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Commentary
Tagged climate change, Earth Day, Tristanne Davis, Voices of Young People
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Environmentalism 2.0: Young People Lead the Way
by Tristanne Davis, Occasional Contributor The Takeaway:Today is Earth Day, and the environmental movement needs young people more than ever. We can help reignite constructive activism by inspiring and engaging the public in bipartisan ways that promote sustainable development thinking and … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Commentary
Tagged .350.org, Clean Air Act, climate change, Cuyahoga River, Earth Day, Energy Action Coalition, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Forward on Climate, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), New Economics Institute, Power Shift, Responsible Endowments Coalition (REC), Richard Nixon, sustainable development, Tristanne Davis
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Gift Xchange: Giving, Investing, and Grantmaking for Good
Part One of Two The TakeAway: Charitable requests are a constant, but the end of the year brings a blizzard of appeals. In addition to our donor dollars, there’s a vast amount of untapped money power held by nonprofit institutions, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Political Activity, Corporate Sustainability, Ethics and Values, Human Rights, Public Policy, Sustainable Investing, Uncategorized
Tagged .350.org, Bill McKibben, Bob Massie, Center for Responsive Politics, Ceres, endowments, fiduciary, foundations, Free Software Foundation (FSF), Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), Joshua Gay, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), New Economics Institute, OpenSecrets.org, Responsible Endowments Coalition (REC), Rootstrikers, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
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Ready For Their Close-Up: Corporate Secretaries and “The Shape of Things to Come”
Part One of Three The TakeAway: The recent annual conference of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals focused on “The Shape of Things to Come”—that is, key issues and trends affecting corporate accountability and sustainable prosperity. In so … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Political Activity, Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Ethics and Values, Interactive Technology, Politics, Proxy Voting, Public Policy, Stakeholder Engagement
Tagged Anthony Horan, Corporate Board Member, Doug Chia, ESG, Fay Feeney, Governance Minutes, Jim Brashear, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase, Ken Bertsch, materiality, Nasdaq, Sarah Teslik, Sarbane-Oxley, Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals, T.K. Kerstetter, Tim Smith, Walden Asset Management, ZixCorp
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“Just Keep Your Knees Together” – Democracy’s Disconnect
Guest Commentary by Rosalie Hudnut Wright, Occasional Contributor, The Murninghan Post The Takeaway: To inaugurate MurnPost’s “Voices of Baby Boomers” section, Rosalie Hudnut Wright writes about the “disconnect” in our Presidential primary campaign between women’s well-being and social and economic sustainability. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Commentary, Human Rights, Politics, Public Policy
Tagged Andrea Mitchell, aspirin, Charlie Rose, contraception, Eve Ensler, Foster Friess, Planned Parenthood, Power Center for the Performing Arts, Rick Santorum, Rosalie Hudnut Wright, The Vagina Monologue, Title X, University of Michigan, violence
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A Valentine’s Bouquet: Twelve for 2012
The TakeAway: The blooms of sustainable prosperity and justice are fed by at least twelve currents that will get stronger throughout 2012. They involve the maturation of corporate social responsibility and corporate governance; rethinking the meaning of “fiduciary”; balancing internationalism … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Political Activity, Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Human Rights, Interactive Technology, Investor Governance, Natural Disasters, Proxy Voting, Public Policy, Stakeholder Engagement, Sustainable Investing
Tagged Apple, B-Corporations, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), climate, conflict, Corporation 20/20, divided societies, ESG, fiduciary, G4, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), human rights, Middle East, MITSloan Management Review, Occupy Wall Street, post-conflict societies, social sustainability, stakeholder engagement, supply chains, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), U.N. International Year of Cooperatives, XBRL
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Campus Curricula and the Common Good: Filling the Gap
Guest Commentary by Joe McCarty, Occasional Contributor, The Murninghan Post The TakeAway: To inaugurate MurnPost’s “Voices of Young People” section, Joe McCarty writes about the failure of undergraduate business schools to equip students with the knowledge and competence necessary for building … Continue reading
Walter White and LBJ: Personality Plus, To What End?
The TakeAway: Two drama, Breaking Bad and All the Way, provide insights into complex characters, and lessons for our times. Time collapsed earlier this week, as volcanoes from the past and present erupted and converged in a manner that only … Continue reading →