This Week in Sustainability - Starbucks goes a bit meatless, the EPA re approves Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup, the UK moves it diesel and hybrid vehicle ban forward, and more....

In 1996, when Eugene Ellmen wrote The Canadian Ethical Money Guide there were some $40 million in sustainable and responsible investment in Canada. Today there are over $2 trillion.

Eugene is indisputably one of the greats of the modern sustainable and responsible investment movement, not only in Canada, but globally.

Listen to host Marc de Sousa Shields and Eugene discuss the evolution of ESG and impact investment, challenges, successes, and path towards greater growth and impact.

What’s in This Week in Sustainability?

A Final Davos round up.....The Guardian will not take any more fossil fuel adverts.....General Motors goes all electric… at one plant anyhow...... A trillion trees are still in the news......Goldman Sachs says one woman on a board of directors is enough.....And….KFC goes (a bit) meatless.

All this and more….in This Week in Sustainability.

I have Davos Dementia, it hurts. But its time to review. Summarize.

So, here is my first cut at a review of the World Economic Forum in Davos, done with thirty years of fori roaring in my ear (video and podcast).

This week, BlackRock, the giant US asset management firm, finally takes a substantive bite out of the sustainability apple, MicroSoft one-ups Amazon on carbon, and international tennis star Roger Federer caught some fossil fuel back-splash for his relationship with Credit Suisse… all this and more...

For the last three years, Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, the USD 7 trillion under management investment firm, has been making noise about how corporate America needs to work for the common good, for all stakeholders, and not just shareholders

Lots of nice words. Now its time for action.

Join our panel of three expert sustainablity investment professionals as they make sense of Blackrocks new direction.

Join Marc de Sousa Shields, host of The Sustainable Century Solutions Podcast, as he talks with Dr. Quang Nguyen, author and agricultural development specialist, about the global #ClimateCrisis and how it is impacting his homeland.

With its low-lying agricultural areas dramatically affected by changing weather patterns, rising seas, increased soil salinity, and more, Vietnam is among several countries feeling the greatest impact of the #ClimateCrisis.

Despite dire threats to their hard won food secuirty, agricultural export earnings, and community livelihoods, Dr. Quang and his compatriots remain optimist, as they innovate and adapt to new climate realities.

This Week in Sustainability in Reivew for 2019.... ClimateKids, Extinction Rebellion, sustianable finance, Toxic Trump and more....

This week the worst for all things sustainable President Trump was impeached, BigFinance actually gave us some hope even as COP25 staggered to a near fatally disappointing conclusion, and Gorillas make a comeback putting a smile on the week.

If we were all as knowledgeable and honest about food as Jenn DeRose, Manager of Known and Grown, an initiative of the Missouri Coalition for the Environment (MCE), there would be tons less carbon in the atmosphere, we would all be healthier, and local food sheds and farmers would be vibrant and happy!

When asked what kind of food she would be, Jenn responds: “Nutritional yeast.”

Curious? Check out Jen, magical punk foody, on The Sustainable Century Solutions Podcast.