ESGarchitect

Remember “The Circle” and thinking: #socialmedia can’t be THAT all embracing. Well, prepare to be freaked out. #WhatGoogleKnows. What will investors do next, @PRI_News? #ESG #data #dataprivacy #surveillance HT @iamdylancurran

This is the @RobertJShiller #markets course from 2011 @Yale for #investment learning that I recommended in #ESG Note S1E6 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/esg-note-s1e6-nervous-markets-guns-blood-money-chicago-sinclair

Live break in performance in news they won their 5th Grammy. After working hard 30+ years on your art and being recognized by your peers. Congratulations my brothers from #KZN #LadysmithBlackMambazo. We need your beautiful voices. #choral #SouthAfrica https://twitter.com/therealmambazo/status/957895179335213058

Monday motivation: it’s always a happy thing (pass the dopamine?!) when the #sustainability in finance message you designed and delivered rings true with the #nextgen in finance you hoped it would. Thanks Jennifer Buritica and team. Thanks Shipra Gupta and Virginie Bonnell and strength to your sustainability action plans for in 2018.

Essay in @themaroontiger at #Morehouse 1947. http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_470200_000.1.html

To wrap your weekend and to start your 3rd week of 2018, enjoy #ESGnote [beta, S1E1]: “Vanguard At $5Trillion, Bono Finds Fintech, New York City Takes On Big Oil, Facebook Happy Not Happy" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/esg-note-beta-s1e1-bono-finds-fintech-nyc-climate-changes-sinclair by @esgarchitect on @LinkedIn #Vanguard #fintech #ESG #investment

‪Happy Friday. For your reading consideration on the homeward commute, the first article of my new #ESGnote today on #investment and #sustainability. #ESG #Vanguard #Bono #fintech #BigOil #Unilever #ETF #rats #oilspill #Facebook #Norway #Happiness $TSLA $FB https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/esg-note-beta-s1e1-bono-finds-fintech-nyc-climate-changes-sinclair‬

Expand your #investment thinking, break open your #business strategy, grow your hope for #sustainability. Lecture on A World of 3 Zeroes by #MuhammadYunus @Yunus_Centre #GrameenBank #NobelPeacePrize. @LSE #MinoucheShafik @LSEEcon @CFMUK #ESG #SDG #poor

So my field of work in investment at a stroke of #inauguration becomes unsearchable?! Implies I'm by definition into the #resistance..?! Climate change does not care if you "believe" it. The CO2e concentrations on the #KeelingCurve do not disappear. If you're a #billionaire you can isolate yourself from its effects for a while. Eventually all your children will breathe the dirty air and watch the sea level rise... #ESG MT Caroline McCabe

There's an #investment case for everything, but how to figure if it's ir/responsible? Discuss... $MAT

Online surveillance will give #Trump a lot of information on us. Here's what you can do to resist via @quartz Must read longread on your digital privacy and how to resist via @qz, includes history of panopticon architecture as surveillance and modern analog of cybersecurity. Includes network dataviz model from MIT Media Lab

If your name is etched in stone for centuries, will it make you rethink your position? Legendary news anchor Dan Rather is proposing a monument for climate deniers: "I think we should erect a monument built from materials impervious to the elements and list the names of all the elected officials and others in positions of power today in the United States who refuse to stand with the science on climate change." https://www.facebook.com/theDanRather/posts/10157876777645716 Climate is a political problem. Climate science is advancing with every new dataset and every new modeling. The Keeling curve plots inexorably up and to the right, not in a good (investment) way. The data is the data. Unless you scrub it. Scientists are backing up data in the USA fearing Trump's data vaporizer political appointments. Financiers and engineers can maybe get widgets built to adapt our lives, but our lives will be different. Try getting snow insurance if you run a ski resort or coastline storm surge insurance if you're building less than 8ft above current sea level mark. More anxiously, what about the millions who have no smartphones and depend on reliable moderate weather to grow their food? Adapting human civilization to the Anthropocene era when the earth is shaped by humans is the reality of the 21st century. Memorializing the names of people who think they can buy their rich lives out of its consequences is one approach. Maybe we can levy taxes their grandchildren would pay, because it'll be pretty obvious 2 generations from now. Monuments have a role. How to act right now, how to take the keys from the drink driver?

The mixed blessing of being [un]happy #creative via @el72champs @qz : "Creativity is complex. The 14 components Jordanous and Keller found all need to work together to varying degrees depending on the task at hand, the researchers explain. None is more important than any other although different creative activities—and different steps of a single creative effort—may demand more of one or another and build on each other." http://qz.com/790226/happiness-creativity-neuroscience/

Lyrics to #DaySleeper by #REM is cycling thru my head sitting in @AmtrakNEC overnight Boston > Washington DC. Low carbon in NorthEast USA.