climate action

Today's episode of the GaryVee Audio Experience is an awesome interview I did with lifelong journalist, and CEO of Fortune Media, Alan Murray! We discuss his beginnings as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal, the challenges people go through to better themselves, how to build the biggest empire while keeping an emotional framework, and much more! Enjoy!

THINGS I TALKED ABOUT:

1. Importance of cash for business sustainability

2. Significance of attention as a business asset

3. Alan Murray's career in journalism and entrepreneurship

4. Insights from "Tomorrow's Capitalist" on business and societal impact

5. Evolution of corporate responsibility towards societal impact

6. Role of empathy in business leadership

7. Corporate sustainability and climate change actions

8. Diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in workplaces

9. Economic trends influencing business strategies

10. Businesses' role in addressing societal problems

Busy scientist Adam Aron had too much on his plate to think deeply about climate change - until he read a scary report about what lay in store for the planet if no one acted to cut greenhouse gases. 

So Adam did more and more to fight climate change, until activism became his full time occupation. And the move made him happier and more content. We can't all give up our normal lives to stop global heating - but even making small contributions to the cause can make us feel more connected, more fulfilled and happier. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When it comes to solutions to the climate crisis, we’re going to need a whole menu of options. One item on the menu: clean hydrogen.

The Joe Biden administration recently invested $7 billion into developing clean hydrogen hubs across the country, with hopes the technology could help reduce carbon emissions in a variety of industries.

“Many people call it a Swiss Army knife of decarbonization,” said Emily Pontecorvo, staff writer at Heatmap News. “But the problem of thinking of it that way is that it takes so much energy to make hydrogen that you really only want to use it in cases where you don’t really have any other options.”

On the show today, Pontecorvo explains the difference between “clean” and “dirty” hydrogen, how we might use hydrogen fuel, and why some climate advocates are skeptical of its climate friendliness.

Then, the other labor story of the summer: rounds of walkouts by pharmacy staff at CVS and Walgreens. And we’ll get into how Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s ongoing military promotion blockade has complicated a top military official’s health emergency.

Later, we’ll hear a listener’s concerns about nuclear energy. And another listener was wrong about which countries export petroleum (until they played Tradle).

Here’s everything we talked about:

• • “Biden’s Big Hydrogen Experiment Is About to Begin” from Heatmap News

• • “White House puts $7 billion toward hydrogen hubs” from Marketplace

• • “The race to scale up green hydrogen” from Financial Times

• • “Column: Hydrogen is a crucial climate solution. It’s also a distraction” from The Los Angeles Times

• • “What is hydrogen, and can it really become a climate change solution?” from The Conversation

• • “Biden administration invests in hydrogen fuel, but hurdles remain” from Marketplace

• • “Top Marine General Hospitalized After Apparently Having Heart Attack” from The New York Times

• • “CVS and Walgreens pharmacy staff begin 3-day walkout” from CNN

We want to hear your answer to the Make Me Smart question. You can reach us at makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

The financial sector often talks of decarbonizing investment portfolios as a way to fight climate change. But portfolios can be "cleaned" without having any real impact on the problem, says investment expert Nili Gilbert. Bringing science to finance, she unpacks how investors can actually help decarbonize the world -- a costly endeavor, estimated at three to five trillion dollars per year between now and 2050 -- and ensure the climate transition is just, global and interconnected. "Changing the markets can be a way to change the world," she says.

Milton Friedman, the renowned American economist and spiritual mentor of many entrepreneurs, argued that the social responsibility of business was to increase profits. This has been the gospel since the early 1970s, but companies and investors are beginning to rethink the purpose of business. Has the sun really set on the Miltonian era?

In the second episode of our special five-part series produced in partnership with the Moral Money team, Leila Abboud, the FT’s Paris correspondent, and Gillian Tett, the FT’s US editor-at-large, tell the story of Emmanuel Faber, the former CEO of Danone who embraced environmental, social and governance (ESG) causes - and then was ousted eight years later. Turns out there was more to the story than first meets the eye.

The fall from favour of Danone’s purpose-driven chief

Check out stories and up-to-the-minute news from the Moral Money team here. 

Get 30 days of the premium Moral Money newsletter free, together with complimentary access to FT.com for the same period, visit www.ft.com/insideesg

Review clips: CNBC, Danone, British Pathé, IMAGINE, France 24

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.