Reading Time: 5 minutesCriticism is important because what it tells us is important. The more you experience criticism as a negative, the more apt you are to respond to criticism in a negative manner. Criticism is a complex, essential and powerful process. It is important because situations affect our welfare and must be evaluated. It is essential because […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesFirst published on Pro Bono News Ten years ago, ESG was a grassroots initiative. Today, it is top-down. Ten years ago, issues of corporate social responsibility (CSR) – such as measuring carbon footprints, socially responsive company policies, or ethical supply chains – might have been championed by activist employees or customers, but they were not
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Reading Time: 2 minutesFirst published on Pro Bono News ESG vs Sustainability You’ll often hear environmental, social and governance (ESG) and sustainability in the same sentence — in some cases, you might even see them used interchangeably. But they are not the same thing. When it comes to disclosing and benchmarking data, there’s actually a remarkable difference between
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Reading Time: 4 minutesFirst published on Pro Bono News ESG is a strange beast because what it means to the average person in the street and a fund manager is not the same thing. Despite a growing enthusiasm for impact investment, many asset owners are constrained because of a baffling array of unverified, opaque and incompatible measurement frameworks.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesThe United Nations has held the “Conference of the Parties,” or COP, for almost three decades, including the landmark 2015 Paris climate summit. This year is the 26th meeting. In that time, urgency has ramped up over greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and human-caused climate change. Some key statistics driving the conversations include: Earth has
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou can make major changes in your life with minor changes in your thinking and behavior. To understand how this works, consider the three Rs model: “Reality plus response equals result.” Say that one of your colleagues criticises your work (that’s reality). Your response creates a particular result. If you ask your colleague why he
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAs chemicals, probably about a dollar. As part of the universe, about as close to zero as one can get. As another human in a human society, whatever that person makes of himself or herself, whatever value humankind assigns, and whatever chance permits. Any value judgment is inherently subjective, meaning that the value of something
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Reading Time: 3 minutes“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ― Confucius A major problem of this world is that we were never taught to live a simple life. The system’s proponents teach us to always want more and complicate things by confusing us with its rubbish mantra. A simple life can lead to a happy life.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesLife Rule #1: If you are simple, the world is simple for you! A simple life can lead to a happy life. People must be self-sufficient and happy, tolerant, and magnanimous. You can’t think about anything complicated. If your soul is overloaded, you will complain and worry about others. It is necessary to delete the
Reading Time: 7 minutesFirst, my Dad was in ICU (non-COVID related) in March. Then, we (Melbourne) went into lockdown in April. Then, I was made redundant in June. Then Melbourne went into a longer lockdown in June. Then, my mom got COVID. Then, Melbourne sort-of came out of lockdown. Then, I made a perilous trip to India in
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