----- Forwarded Message ----- From: John Fullerton <[email protected]> To: Robert Searle <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 30 January 2012, 22:15 Subject: Finance for Sustainability: The Future of Business Education To forward this email, click here. Finance for Sustainability: The Future of Business Education by John Fullerton I was honored to join Majora Carter, Eban Goodstein, and Elysa Hammond at the launch of Bard College's new MBA in Sustainability last week to discuss how finance has been a major factor driving our ecological and social crises and how fixing finance must be a part of the solution. The ideas I presented – an all-hands-on-deck, bottom-up and top-down/systemic approach to sustainable finance – are at the core of a new finance curriculum the Capital Institute is helping Bard design. Below are the slides from my address. For more information on the MBA in Sustainability program, visit http://www.bard.edu/mba/. See my presentation at the Future of Finance Blog. CI Fellow Reports from the Field Capital Institute fellow Liana Scobie has taken a job at the innovative company TerraCycle and has sent us these thoughts from the field on how their work is making a real difference in the core areas of Capital Institute's focus – sustainability for a full world and a more equitable distribution of wealth. Proof That It's Working by Liana Scobie On January 12, 60 employees at TerraCycle stopped their regular work to stuff 3,500 charitable donation checks into envelopes. At TerraCycle, our mission is to eliminate the idea of waste. We do this by creating national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable and otherwise impossible-to-recycle waste. But for every piece of waste sent to us, we donate $0.02 to a charity, or school, of the sender’s choice. Read the rest of Liana's thoughts at This Week at Capital Institute. ________________________________ Joseph Stiglitz to Speak at Responsible Endowments Coalition Celebration Nobel Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz will be the keynote speaker at The Responsible Endowments Coalition (REC) Winter Celebration and Fundraiser, honoring Anuradha Mittal and the Oakland Institute. The event will be held in New York City on February 15th. The REC is a student-led, not-for-profit organization that works to improve the environmental, social, and governance practices of corporations by transforming the way universities invest their endowments. Founded in 2004 by a group of undergraduates from Barnard College, Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, and Williams College who wanted to encourage their alma maters to invest for a purpose higher than merely financial returns, the REC now counts over 100 active schools in its network. The organization provides information and technical assistance to students who wish to engage their colleges and universities in more responsible investing. It also works with administrators and trustees, providing support to them on integrating responsible investment into the management of their endowments. Register here for the Fundraiser. Regular tickets are $100; student low-income tickets , $38. For more, visit This Week at Capital Institute. ________________________________ Does Growth Equal Progress? Last week, Capital Institute network organization Demos released a striking report and series of graphics on the myth that economic growth equals progress. The report lays out the argument for rethinking our national accounts while the graphics visually detail the failures of GDP as a measurement of progress. See the graphics and get the report here. What We're Reading The January 2012 issue of Solutions features an article by Capital Institute colleague Mark Mykleby who makes the case that the future of national security should be grounded in sustainability and communities rather than a defensive, last-resort militarism. National Security, Sustainability, and Citizenship ________________________________ Comment of the Week "Appreciate the specifics and the mini-lesson on efficiency versus resiliency. I've seen many intelligent, thoughtful people go 'hmm' when offered this dichotomy. Light bulbs flash and discussions are reframed. I'm sure you made a few lights flicker. Perhaps this will reach both sides of the aisle. And, I'm not at all 'reluctant' to try 'bold public-private experimentation to manifest the purpose-driven financial system we need.'" -Rosalinda Sanquiche, A Systems Approach to Financial Reform ________________________________ Quote of the Week "To achieve a viable human-Earth situation a new jurisprudence must envisage its primary task as that of articulating the conditions for the integral functioning of the Earth process, with special reference to a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship... The land, the water, the air, and the complex of life systems... would constitute the integral expression of the Great Commons of the planet Earth to be shared in proportion to need among all members of the Earth community." -Thomas Berry, The Great Work To unsubscribe from this email list, click here. 73 Arch Street, 3rd Floor Greenwich, CT 06830 United States