Sustaining Sustainability is going to take a continued pause while we digest all the feedback we received and determine the strategic role for this Podcast as we shape the future of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Sustainable Business! In the meantime, we are still accepting survey responses at bit.ly/csbpodsurvey Or follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pittcsb/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/pittcsb/ Thank you for your engagement with sustainable business, we’ll see you soon with more updates! Sign up to receive weekly episodes right to your inbox: bit.ly/csbpod ..read more

In this episode, CSB Director CB Bhattacharya is joined from Hastings-on-Hudson, New York by Seth Godin, writer, 5-time TED talk speaker, founder of Akimbo, and coordinator of The Carbon Almanac: It’s Not Too Late. A collection of more than 300 pages of tables, charts, illustrations, insights, quotes, and ways to understand what’s going on with climate change, The Carbon Almanac is a collaboration between more than 300 writers, researchers, thinkers, and illustrators that provide credible and authoritative information on carbon and its impact on climate. Seth has written over 20 bestselling bo ..read more

In this episode, CSB Director CB Bhattacharya is joined from New York City by Peter Land, Senior Vice President and Chief Communications in Sustainability Officer at Dick’s Sporting Goods, the largest athletics and fitness retailer in the United States. Prior to joining Dick’s Sporting Goods, Peter served as a partner at Finsbury, a consulting firm specializing in corporate reputation, crisis management, and capital markets. He has also held senior communication roles at AOL and Pepsi Co. In the Episode Peter Land and Prof. Bhattacharya discuss - Dick’s Sporting Goods decision to no longer car ..read more

In this episode, Prof. CB Bhattacharya is joined from San Francisco by Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme, Director at Moody's ESG Solutions, a new business unit of Moody’s Corporation formed to serve the growing global demand for ESG and climate analytics and empower organizations to make better, more sustainable decisions. In this episode, Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme and Professor Bhattacharya discuss: • Integrating physical and economic climate risks into financial decision making • How to view investments through the lens of the just transition • The drivers of change in how financial institution ..read more

In this episode, Prof. CB Bhattacharya is joined from Pittsburgh by Brian Dingerdissen, Vice President, Investor Relations and Communications and ESG, and Chief of Staff to the CEO, for Essential Utilities, Inc., one of the largest publicly traded water, wastewater and natural gas providers in the U.S., serving approximately 5 million people across 10 states. In this episode, Brian and CB discuss: • The challenges in moving to full electrification for households and businesses • Essential’s decarbonization journey and the need to make goals based on proven, existing technologies • How to balan ..read more

Chris Gassman is joined from Turtle Creek Pennsylvania by Joe Mastrangelo, the CEO of Eos Energy Storage, a leading manufacturer of safe, scalable, efficient, and sustainable energy storage systems. In this Episode, Joe and Chris discuss: ? Scaling in response to the growing demand for energy storage ? Prioritizing local supply chains to maximize resilience ♻️ Making circular products that excite investors and more... This podcast cannot happen without our wonderful listeners, let us know what you think and what you want from next season in our survey: https://bit.ly/csbpodsurvey Sign up to re ..read more

In this episode, CSB Senior Associate Director, Chris Gassman is joined from Knoxville, Tennessee by Suzanne Shelton, CEO of the Shelton Group and now an ERM Group company. Shelton Group is the nation’s leading marketing communications agency focused exclusively in the ESG space. She regularly counsels C-level executives at Fortune 1000 organizations on how to best define and leverage their sustainability approaches to drive business results. In the Episode Chris and Suzanne discuss: ? Businesses getting the credit they deserve for climate action ? Workforce treatment as the most important mea ..read more

Please enjoy perspectives from the University of Pittsburgh in celebration of the recent Earth Day. Sign up to receive bi-weekly episodes right to your inbox: bit.ly/csbpodcastemail Submit your "Sustaining Sustainability" feedback and/or questions: bit.ly/csbpodcastfeedback This episode was researched, recorded, edited, and produced by Prof. CB Bhattacharya and CSB Team of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Sustainable Business: www.sustainablebusiness.pitt.edu Music: "Lively" by Dee Yan-Key From the Free Music Archive CC BY NC SA creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcod ..read more

In this episode, CSB Director CB Bhattacharya is joined from San Francisco California by Izabel Loinaz, Associate Client Partner, ESG & Sustainability Solutions of Korn Ferry. Korn Ferry is a management consulting firm ranked in the top 2% on SustainAlytics’ ESG Risk Rating in 2021 and CDP’s highest Leadership rating in 2022. As of 2021, 70% of their buildings are certified by green building standards, up 19% from 2020. Korn Ferry is also recognized as a leading workplace for parents, women, veterans, and LGBT individuals. Izabel joined Korn Ferry in 2021 and brings with her more than 20 y ..read more

In this episode, CSB Director CB Bhattacharya is joined by CSB Senior Associate Director Chris Gassman to put the spotlight on CB and introduce Chris who will be hosting future episodes of Sustaining Sustainability. CB is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Business here at the University of Pittsburgh and the H.J. Zoffer Chair in Sustainability and Ethics at the Katz Graduate School of Business. He has published over 100 articles and has over 41,000 citations per Google Scholar. His latest book, Small Actions Big Difference: Leveraging Corporate Sustainability to Drive Business and Soc ..read more