According to Salary.com, the average salary for a Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) is $153,522 per year, and in 2021, more CSOs were hired than in the previous five years combined. Additionally, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will soon begin to “require registrants to include certain climate-related disclosures in their registration statements and periodic reports,…
Category: Climate Change
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Is your business ready to solve the world’s biggest social & environmental challenges, but doesn’t know where to begin? After some recent speaking engagements AFFLINK Engage event in Scottsdale, AZ and the American Fly Fishing Trade Association Industry Summit & Lowcountry Local First Good Business Summit in Charleston, one thing became abundantly clear: small to medium enterprises want to measure…
Apparel Industry Is Unprepared For New Sustainability Laws (So Where to Begin?)
This article was originally published on Forbes on February 16, 2023 and was written by Greg Petro. “One of the hot topics among fashion execs these days is what’s shaping up to be the industry’s next crisis — government regulation of sustainability. In the US, Europe, and elsewhere, new laws are in the pipeline or…
REPORT: Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, December 2022
This report was originally published on February 16, 2023 on the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication website. By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Jennifer Carman, Marija Verner, Sanguk Lee, Matthew Ballew, Sri Saahitya Uppalapati, Eryn Campbell, Teresa Myers, Matthew Goldberg and Jennifer Marlon Executive Summary Drawing on a nationally representative survey (n = 1,085) conducted from December 2 – 12, 2022, this report describes Americans’ beliefs…
Sustainable Packaging: Foam made from shrimp shells?
We all know that plastic pollution is a major problem that our planet is currently facing and much of the packaging waste the ends up in our environment, which then harms plants and animals is styrofoam. In fact, styrofoam has become such a nuisance that towns, like Folly Beach have banned styrofoam and plastic bags…
In the News: Carbon Neutral Sportfishing Boat
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Wes Carter, who is president of Atlantic Packaging and founder of A New Earth Project, on making his boat, The Stream Weaver, the world’s first carbon neutral sportfishing boat. In the Bite magazine interviewed Wes and me and you can read the article in the…