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ESG In the News

Tracking ESG metrics The Harvard Business Review just published an article entitled, How Tracking ESG Metrics Can Help Reduce Costs and Build Supply-Chain Resilience. Coincidently, Osprey ESG has developed software to help track ESG metrics, which may have been why...

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Earth Day

from Roy Snell When Did Earth Day Start? April 22nd, 1970 Who Started Earth Day? U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, a Democrat from Wisconsin who was inspired by student’s environmental protests. Nelson then chose Denis Hayes, a student attending the Kennedy School of...

It is an exciting time to be working on life sciences ESG programs

It is an exciting time to be working on life sciences ESG programs My first job out of college in 1980, was to manage new microcomputers that were purchased by the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Department. The Ag Department was riddled with life sciences...

ChatGPT on What an ESG Program is

Blog by Roy Snell, Image "chat bot typing an article" generated by picfinder.ai I asked ChatGPT for a paragraph on what an ESG program is. It gave me 3 paragraphs which means ChatGPT is more humanlike than we thought. However, what it said was brilliant. If you...

I asked ChatGPT an ESG question and now I’m in tears

By Roy Snell Compliance and ESG professionals need to ensure AI authoring policies are written. Such as my new policy… “All AI text that I include in the Soul of ESG Blog will be declared as written by AI and printed in italics.” ChatGPT is an AI tool that can...

ESG Naysayers – Check Out The 1 Billion Dollar ESG Rating Agency

EcoVadis is the 1 billion pound gorilla in the Environmental Social Governance (ESG) ratings world. EcoVadis has many companies in a bind because they gave them a low ESG rating. A low ESG rating that more and more upstream buyers are using to justify switching...

100 years of ESG – We Are Not Perfect but Always Improving

By Roy Snell Before I start, I want to clarify a point. It is my belief that ESG has been around for 100 years. Some claim that the earliest environmentalists are reported to be people who practiced the Jainism religion from ancient India 2,500 years ago. One could...

Lithium and Cobalt Mining is a continuum of ESG challenges

The US government is considering blocking Lithium mining In Nevada because of a flower called Tiehm’s buckwheat. The flower is found nowhere else in the world than on a 10-acre plot in Nevada which is owned by an Australian company that wants to mine for lithium. ...

ESG Madness – How to Find Strong ESG Resources and Education

by Roy Snell Reefer Madness, SCCE, The IIA, Musk, DeSantis, and Jane Fonda There was a movie that was shown in schools, a long time ago, called Reefer Madness. The short movie claimed that smoking marijuana would cause you to lose your mind. It was intended to get...

How Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX Put the G in ESG

Sam Bankman-Fried just lost his job as CEO of FTX because he allegedly lost billions of dollars. The real problem is that it was his investor’s money and there is evidence Sam is going to unseat Bernie Madoff as the biggest corporate crook in the history of planet...