Investors can aim not only to make money but to benefit society while doing so. But few of those impact investors follow up on whether their strategy is having a positive impact, we found in a study ...

Organizations that pursue social and environmental goals—alongside financial ones—are called “social businesses,” and there are many examples: Revolution Foods provides healthy school meals in the ...

As people age, maintaining a positive and predictable social environment becomes more and more important. For instance, keeping close ties with friends and family has been identified as one of the key ...

The environmental, social, and governance (ESG) movement is a modern inclination of ancient systems to usurp earnings from capital and labor to support the environmental and social concerns of a ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Whether it’s the topic of a heated political debate or a soothing reassurance in a corporate CEO’s speech, you might have seen the abbreviation "ESG" a lot more in the past few years. In that time, ...

ENVIRONMENTALISTS and residents recently held a peaceful protest at the Durban beachfront, calling for social, environmental ...

The Environmental Social Science secondary core in the Environmental Studies Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder brings together campus wide strength in research and training in the ...

Source: Flickr: Synapse by Manel Torralba, C.C. by 2.0 A paradox that helps clarify the solution to the ongoing genes vs. environment debate in mental health (described in a previous post) is that one ...