This past Thursday, October 20th, Anthony Brooks and Meghna Chakrabarti talked with Green Needham Chair Michael Greis and Massachusetts Energy Undersecretary Barbara Kates-Garnick about the green economy, the 2020 clean energy plan, energy efficiency & “green living” at the local
Two books on Oil and our Energy Future – very different authors with some suprisingly similar conclusions
Two authors, with very different styles, approaches and opinions, write books about oil and our energy future. Reading them together, it is easy to imagine a provocative and enlightening panel with the two authors. But the real takeaway are the
Beyond a niche – BSAS session on ESG integration
We designed the September 27th BSAS lunch session on ESG Integration to highlight a development that is further along than many in the investment community realize – the progress ESG is making towards incorporation in the mainstream. Putting it in
ESG Performance white paper asks a bigger question
A recently published white paper from RCM provides evidence of outperformance generated through best-in-class ESG investing. Because it examined a sizable number of stocks (more than 900 spread across three geographic portfolios) over a period encompassing a wide range of
The high cost of oil – in jobs
Efforts to address energy and climate challenges are now reflexively branded as “job killers” by one part of the political spectrum. Amazingly, this happens even when the proposals are defined in terms of their positive economic impact, as in the