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Let’s Bend the Arc of Money and Power Toward Justice

Posted on 29 August 2013 by Marcy Murninghan

Sixth in a Series: Time to Talk About the Public Interest The TakeAway: The 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom provides the opportunity to reflect on what truths we hold to be self evident, what … Continue reading →

Posted in Ethics and Values, Fiduciary, Human Rights, Interactive Technology, Politics | Tagged .350.org, Baby Boomers, Bayard Rustin, Bill Clinton, Boston, CEO pay, Civic Stewardship League, civil rights movement, Cold War, Detroit, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Elinor Ostrom, Emmet Till, fossil fuel divestment, John Lewis, Jr., Lansing, March on Washington, Martin Luther King, Michigan, Minneapolis, Model Cities, New Hampshire, Occupy Wall Street, polycentric, President Barack Obama, Richard D. Letts, Robert C. Wood, San Francisco, sustainability, Vincent Olstrom, Western Massachusetts, Whitney Young | Comments Off

Back to the Future: Apocalypse Now

Posted on 19 August 2013 by Marcy Murninghan

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 | Comments Off

Campus Curricula and the Common Good: Filling the Gap

Posted on 3 February 2012 by Marcy Murninghan

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 →

Posted in Climate Change, Commentary, Corporate Sustainability | Tagged common good, corporate social responsibility, curriculum, education, greenhouse gas emissions, Joe McCarty, Occupy Wall Street, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, students, sustainability, University of Michigan | 2 Comments

The Sustainability Ratings Industrial Complex: Breaking the Hold

Posted on 6 July 2011 by Marcy Murninghan

The TakeAway: The recent launch of the Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings seeks to bring some order, quality, and accountability to the diverse and booming growth industry of sustainability ratings and rankings—also a topic of the online “SustyChat3” among experts, … Continue reading →

Posted in Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Public Policy, Sustainability Ratings | Tagged Allen White, Bill Baue, Bloomberg, Bob Massie, BP disaster, Calvert Group, Ceres, Council on Foundations, CSRR-QS, Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings (GISR), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), James A. Joseph, MacBride Principles, Mark Tulay, Michael Sadowski, Mindy Lubber, OpenEyeWorld, Sullivan Principles, survey fatigue, sustainability, sustainability ratings, SustyChat, Tellus Institute, TIAA-CREF, Valdez Principles | 3 Comments

Stepping Toward Corporate Sustainability Footprinting

Posted on 10 March 2011 by Marcy Murninghan

Guest Commentary by Bill Baue, Contributor and Curator, The Murninghan Post The TakeAway: Corporate sustainability ratings and reports don’t really tell us if a company is sustainable, but sustainability footprinting takes a step in the right direction. I challenge you: … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary | Tagged Amartya Sen, Andy Barker, Ben & Jerry's, Bill Baue, ESG, G3 Reporting Guidelines, G4 revision process, Global Reporting Initiative, Joseph Stiglitz, Mark McElroy, Mathis Wackernagel, Nicholas Sarkozy, Oxfam, Oxfam Private Sector Department, Poverty Footprint, proportionality, Rate the Raters, Social Footprint, sustainability, Sustainability Context, sustainability footprint, sustainability ratings, UN Millennium Development Goals, William Rees | 18 Comments

Tone at the Top: Rebooting Democracy’s Dialogue

Posted on 13 January 2011 by Marcy Murninghan

The TakeAway: We must hold lawmakers accountable to high standards of statecraft, just as we hold ourselves accountable when engaging on ‘hot button’ issues such as corporate accountability, sustainability, and human rights. It was a high-minded day. Following a Native … Continue reading →

Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Sustainability, Human Rights, Public Policy, Stakeholder Engagement | Tagged "Obamacare", Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bob Massie, Congress, Dodd-Frank, Fred Upton, Gabrielle Giffords, gun control, Henry Waxman, House Committee on Energy & Commerce, House Financial Services Committee, House Rules Committee, human rights, Joe Barton, John Boehner, mental health, Michelle Bachmann, political truce, Spencer Bachus, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, Tucson | 10 Comments

The US Military: Partners in Sustainable Peace

Posted on 12 November 2010 by Marcy Murninghan

The TakeAway: Climate change, clean energy, and humanitarian stability operations are mission-critical components of the Defense Department’s policy doctrine and operational stance. As we hailed our troops on Veterans Day, we should also salute the U.S. military for embracing sustainability. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Human Rights, Natural Disasters, Public Policy | Tagged Air Force, and Climate, and Reconstruction (SSTR), Army, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (CFIA), clean energy, climate change, Deepwater Horizon, Defense Department, Directive 3000.05, energy, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Gregg Nakano, Gulf Coast, health care, human rights, humanitarian, Joint Operating Environment 2010 (JOE), Marine Corps, national security, natural disasters, Navy, Pew Project on National Security, preventive defense, Ray Mabus, Security, Stability, Strategic Studies Institute (SSI), sustainability, Transition, Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS), US Army War College | 2 Comments

It’s Raining Ratings!

Posted on 6 October 2010 by Marcy Murninghan

The TakeAway: In response to the boom in corporate sustainability ratings, SustainAbility releases the second report in its four-phase “Rate the Raters” project. Last month, when JustMeans and CRD Analytics released their Global 1000 Sustainable Performance Leaders list (the latest … Continue reading →

Posted in Corporate Sustainability, Sustainability Ratings | Tagged BP, Ceres, Corporate Knights, Corporation 20/20, CRD Analytics, Deepwater Horizon, Ethical Corporation, FTSE4Good, Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings (GSIR), Globescan, Inflection Point, IW Financial, John Elkington, JustMeans, MacBride Principles, MSCI, Rate the Raters, Sullivan Principles, sustainability, Toby Webb, triple bottom line, Trucost, Valdez Principles | 22 Comments

Climate Skeptics’ Arguments Crushed By Global Bank

Posted on 13 September 2010 by Marcy Murninghan

The TakeAway: Deutsche Bank powerfully rebuts arguments used by climate deniers, and snubs US for lagging on climate policy and clean energy investments. Climate deniers faced another massive debunking of their flimsy claims in last Tuesday’s release of a white … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Sustainability, Sustainable Investing | Tagged climate change, sustainability | 1 Comment

Back to School, Back to the Land

Posted on 8 September 2010 by Marcy Murninghan

The TakeAway: School-based farming is blooming, a fresh alternative to Big Agra and mounting public health risks that is rooted in our Land Grant tradition of education. This summer’s recall of more than half billion eggs, on top of last … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Harvard's Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHGE), Hatch Act, master gardener, Morrill Acts, sustainability, Tea Party, urban agriculture | 1 Comment

Say Hello to AfricaSIF!

Posted on 31 August 2010 by Marcy Murninghan

The TakeAway: The Africa Sustainable Investment Forum adds a new chapter to the history of using finance for social progress that started in South Africa. Most people think the US-based divestment movement toppled apartheid in South Africa. The reality is … Continue reading →

Posted in Corporate Sustainability, Sustainable Investing | Tagged AfricaSIF, apartheid, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Development Bank of South Africa, economic sanctions, FIFA World Cup 2010, Ford Foundation, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Graham Sinclair, integrated reporting, Jay Naidoo, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Padraig O'Malley, Responsible Investor, SinCo, South Africa, sustainability, XBRL | 3 Comments

The Go-Getter Approach to Climate Change

Posted on 17 August 2010 by Marcy Murninghan

The TakeAway: With extreme weather mounting and Congress dithering, WRI report outlines what we can do now to reduce GHGs. In the world of climate change, the gap between scientific consensus and political resolve is widening – but luckily, this … Continue reading →

Posted in Public Policy | Tagged climate change, Franz Litz, GHG, Jeremy Grantham, Nicholas Bianco, sustainability, World Meteorological Organization, World Resources Institute | 2 Comments

Integrated Reporting: Off to A Strong Start

Posted on 4 August 2010 by Marcy Murninghan

The TakeAway: International Integrated Reporting Committee Launches to Blend Financial Reporting with Sustainability Reporting Good news for proponents of sustainability reporting: On Tuesday, the Global Reporting Initiative and the Accounting for Sustainability project (A4S) sponsored by the Prince of Wales … Continue reading →

Posted in Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Public Policy | Tagged A4S, Allen White, Amy Domini, Bob Eccles, Bob Massie, Business for Social Responsibility, Ernst Ligteringen, Global Reporting Initiative, IIRC, integrated reporting, Joan Bavaria, Joan Shapiro, John Elkington, King Committee, Mervyn King, Michael Krzus, sustainability | 9 Comments

Sustainability: When Will the Exception Become the Rule?

Posted on 28 July 2010 by Bob Massie

Commentary by Bob Massie The TakeAway: Silo Thinking by Corporations, Activists, Investors, and Others Slows Progress of Sustainability Those who have been working to advance the concept and practice of sustainability in the United States over the last decade can … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary | Tagged Bob Massie, Ceres, climate change, ESG, Global Reporting Initiative, SEC, sustainability | 7 Comments

U.S. Boards Lag on Sustainability

Posted on 26 July 2010 by Marcy Murninghan

The TakeAway: Conference Board Study Says Most US Boards Still Pursuing Random Approach to Sustainability With rapidly changing financial regulations, the emergence of coherent global standards for disclosure, and a record breaking year of sustainability shareholder resolutions, you’d think that corporate … Continue reading →

Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Sustainability, Public Policy | Tagged board oversight, climate change, Harvard Law School Forum, Matteo Tonello, risk management, sustainability, The Conference Board | 3 Comments

Environmental & Social Policy Resolutions Receive Record Levels of Support

Posted on 21 July 2010 by Marcy Murninghan

Part Two of Three Parts For more than forty years, shareholder activists and large investors have expressed their concerns to corporate boards through the proxy resolution process. For them, this past season was the best ever. Proxy resolutions are proposed … Continue reading →

Posted in Proxy Voting | Tagged Altria, Bob Massie, Calvert, Center for Political Accountability, Ceres, Citizens United, climate change, coal ash, diversity, Domini Social Investments, equal employment, ESG, Exco Resources, Gardner Denver, Goldman Sachs, Halliburton, Heidi Welsh, hydraulic fracturing, ICCR, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, KBR, Leggett and Platt, Lubber, Mercy Investment, Miami Firefighters, NYCERS, Pax World Funds, political activity, political spending, proxy resolution, reporting, Reynolds American, SEC, shareholders, Si2, sustainability, Sustainable Investments Institute, The Transition Group, Trillium Asset Management, Trinity Health | 2 Comments

Sustainability Disclosure and Sector Sensibility

Posted on 19 July 2010 by Marcy Murninghan

Now that the experimental cap seems to be holding on BP’s blown-out well in the Gulf, it’s time to step back and take a wider view of the company and the industry it occupies. While we need to keep the focus … Continue reading →

Posted in Corporate Reporting | Tagged Amsterdam Declaration, Arup, benchmark, Bob Massie, Domini Social Investments, ESG, G3, GRI, industry, Initiative for Responsible Investment, key performance indicators, KPI, Lydenberg, mandatory disclosure, materiality, National Annexes, One Report, Rogers, SEC, sector, shareholders, sustainability, The Transition Group, Wood | 10 Comments

Game On!

Posted on 16 July 2010 by Marcy Murninghan

Who knew that sustainability could be fun? Those who are in the business of “Serious Games”, that’s who. A growing number of digital game developers are finding ways of connecting game genres and mechanics to serious policy issues, creating outcomes … Continue reading →

Posted in Serious Games, Stakeholder Engagement, Web 2.0 | Tagged Allianz, Chevron, Deloitte, Ecogamer.org, energy, Global Reporting Initiative, IBM, Muzzy Lane, stakeholders, sustainability, World Wildlife Fund | 6 Comments

When Titans Learn to Dance: GRI Partners with CDP + UNGC

Posted on 13 July 2010 by Marcy Murninghan

Last Wednesday, the Amsterdam-based Global Reporting Initiative (GRI, the international corporate sustainability reporting standard setter) announced a linkage document with the London-based Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP, a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change reporting system). This marked the second … Continue reading →

Posted in Corporate Reporting | Tagged carbon, Carbon Disclosure Project, G3, Global Reporting Initiative, GRI, investors, network, partnership, stakeholders, sustainability, UN Global Compact, UNGC | 9 Comments

The Murninghan Post Launches!

Posted on 7 July 2010 by Marcy Murninghan

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Murninghan Post, which we’re creating as a gathering place for information, ideas, deliberation, and strategic action on matters pertaining to the reform of our corporate structures and capital markets. The aim is bold … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ariane van Buren, Bill Baue, Bob Massie, disclosure, Dodd-Frank, engagement, ESG, Investor Advisory Committee, investors, ratings, SEC, Sonia Hamel, stakeholder, stewardship, sustainability, The Transition Group, value, Web 2.0, XBRL | 6 Comments

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