A podcast created to inform, connect, and mobilize business leaders and investors to transform the public and private sectors toward a just and sustainable economy. Hosted by the American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN).
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Today's episode features a conversation on Regenerative Finance featuring Jasper van Brakel (CEO, RSF Social Finance). ASBN's Just & Sustainable Economy Podcast is proudly sponsored by Hanson Bridgett, hansonbridgett.com.American Sustainable Business Network
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Join ASBN and Corey Rosen (Author, Ownership: Reinventing Companies, Capitalism, and Who Owns What) and executive director and cofounder of the National Center for Employee Ownership, a private, nonprofit membership, information, and research organization in Oakland, CA.American Sustainable Business Network
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Regenerative Agriculture & Climate Change
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“Regenerative” is one of the new buzz words right now—though many of us are not sure why it is important and how it relates to our life and work. ASBN assembled a panel of entrepreneurs, farmers, and investors who are practicing at the forefront of the regenerative organic, agriculture movement. Today, you will learn why regenerative, organic agric…
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Making the Business Case for Good Jobs with Secretary Marty Walsh
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On Friday, May 13 the Department of Labor (DOL) hosted a special hybrid event, Making the Business Case for Good Jobs, with ASBN’s Vice President, Carolyn Pincus and Secretary of Labor, Marty Walsh leading the discussion. Along with Carolyn Pincus and Secretary Walsh, the discussion also included three ASBN business member owners to discuss DOL’s G…
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Today's episode features a conversation on Creating an Economic System That Works for All featuring Joel Bakan (Professor of Law, Univ of British Columbia; author and filmmaker, The New Corporation) and Rebecca Henderson (John and Natty McArthur University Professor, Harvard University) in conversation with ASBN's Co-Founder & CEO, Jeffrey Hollende…
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What does it mean to choose a High Road Future for Our Economy? That’s the theme of today’s episode featuring Saru Jayaraman (One Fair Wage). Today's episode is as pertinent now as it was when originally recorded in the winter of 2018.
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Episode 16 of the Just & Sustainable Economy podcast features a conversation with award-winning journalist, Alec MacGillis on his book Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America. Joining Alec in conversation is ASBN Co-Founder and CEO and Co-Founder of Seventh Generation, Jeffrey Hollender. Fulfillment is a A New York Times Book Review Ed…
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Housing is Healthcare with Andre M. Perry & Joshua Pollard
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Today's episode focuses on housing, specifically the intersection of home, health, and wealth. Featured guests include Joshua Pollard (President & CEO, Omicelo) and Andre M. Perry (Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institute; Author, Know Your Price; and advisor with Known Holdings. ASBN's Just & Sustainable Economy Podcast is pr…
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Centering Climate Justice in Climate Action
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We know the impacts of the climate crisis largely fall on those who contribute the least to it: Black, Brown and Indigenous communities. We also know we need to reach net zero carbon emissions (carbon neutral), fast. The time is now for courageous business leadership to help create a future that serves people (especially those most vulnerable) and …
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Climate & Racial Justice: The Nexus of the NEXT Economy
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We know the impacts of the climate crisis largely fall on those who contribute the least to it: Black, Brown and Indigenous communities. We also know we need to reach net zero carbon emissions (carbon neutral), fast. The time is now for courageous business leadership to help create a future that serves people (especially those most vulnerable) and …
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This episode was recorded at ASBN's annual conference and features Nick Tilsen (NDN Collective) interviewed by ASBN Co-Founder & President, David Levine. Nick Tilsen is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Tilsen has over 18 years of experience building place-based innovations that have the ability to inform systems change solutions around climat…
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Episode 11 of the Just & Sustainable Economy Podcast features ASBN board Co-Chair and Asset Allocator, Valerie Red-Horse Mohl (CFO of East Bay Community Foundation) who walks you through the innovative steps her Foundation took such as rewriting their investment policy statement requiring a priority to invest in diverse founders which eventually le…
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Today's episode of the Just & Sustainable Economy Podcast comes from our 2017 archives, featuring Labor and Civil Rights Icon Dolores Huerta of The Dolores Huerta Foundation and philanthropist, co-founder of ASBN member company Beneficial State Bank, and founder of NextGen America, Tom Steyer. The conversation was spurred by the documentary film DO…
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Today's episode comes from ASBN’s recent Impact Retail and Sustainable Products Summit, a special virtual event designed to support impact retailers navigate the current landscape of impact retail (e.g. ecommerce), and support them as they seek to improve their businesses, expand their impact, and enhance their leadership. This Summit was hosted in…
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NEXT Economy Showcase - Presented by Hanson Bridgett
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ASBN's NEXT Economy Showcase is an opportunity to hear from high-impact, innovative businesses and investment solutions to building an economy that works for all. From early stage companies, to innovative funds, and more, the NEXT Economy Showcase features 11 investable opportunities that can accelerate our shared work towards creating a sustainabl…
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In the run-up to the 2020 election, ASBN was honored to host a conversation alongside the Movement Voter Project host “Let My People Vote,” a conversation between Desmond Meade of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and Erika Alexander of Color Farm Media. As relevant today as it was just over a year ago, the dialog centered on ending the dise…
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BIPOC farmers disproportionately face the detrimental impacts of institutional oppression. The agricultural players have deprived farmers of access to capital. Reparative capital is needed to build thriving businesses and shift control and power back to marginalized communities to support self-determination. Episode 6 features Mark Watson of Potlik…
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The Blue Economy: Frontiers in Alaska Native Kelp Farming
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Episode 5 of the Just & Sustainable Economy features leaders in the Blue Economy – Dune Lankard, Native Conservancy, Catherine O'Hare, Daybreak Seaweed, and Nick Tilsen of NDN Collection in a dialog moderated by Shaun Paul of Ejido Verde – Alaska Natives staking a claim in the state’s plans to grow a billion-dollar mariculture industry. While leadi…
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In their seminal book 'Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take' former Unilever CEO Paul Polman and sustainable business guru Andrew Winston explode fifty years of corporate dogma. They reveal, for the first time, key lessons from Unilever and other pioneering companies around the world about how you can profit b…
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The defining issues of modern society are sadly not very modern at all. The economic gap continues to grow and is troubling. However you look at it - income, wealth, race, gender—the negative impacts of climate change are creating a sustainability gap in communities of color. Gayle Jennings-O'Byrne (Co-Founder, WOCstar Fund) joins the podcast to di…
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Fighting for Our Future: Businesses Taking a Stand
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Cenk Uygur of TYT Media, Joe Sanberg of Aspiration, David Bronner of Dr. Bronner's and Kristin Hull of Nia Impact Capital joined Thulasi Sivalingam of ASBN to answer the questions, "What does it mean to take a stand as a business? What does it mean to live your values as a business?," and "What's the role of business when the future of our planet i…
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Restoration & Reconciliation - Rev. Dr. William J Barber II & Karen Joseph
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Episode 1 of the Just & Sustainable Economy Podcast features two of the most important movement builders in North America in dialog on restoration and reconciliation in the context of our societies and economic systems, Karen Joseph of Reconciliation Canada and Rev. Dr William J Barber II with Repairers of the Breach and the Poor Peoples Campaign i…
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