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One day what we call sustainability will just be called "business" Author: Managing Sustainability: First Steps to First Class (www.amazon.com/Managing-Sustainabil…) www.linkedin.com/in/johnfriedman?ut…

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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sadly #Cornell rape allegations remind me how my own college that swept assaults under the rug, fearing parents would not send (and would recall) their daughters. More concerned with managing perception than managing the reality. This is not accountability, it is cowardice.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You can't win a fight against market forces Donald. In America, states that backed #Trump accounted for 8 of the top 10 #solar building states in early 2026 and nearly three-quarters of the 11+ gigawatts added nationally in Q2, a 45% jump year-over-year
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Island of Er Lannic in the Golfe de Morbihan has a circle of stones (cromlech) on its southeastern side, half of which is submerged at high tide. #Brittany
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Saying 'au revior' to #Rennes is hard. We were played 'out' just as we were played 'in'
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Media are not stakeholders but gatekeepers to get information in front of actual stakeholders who want & need the information. #Communicators should not let Trump banning #media change their plans or reduce their effort one iota.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Waste is a verb, not a noun. "Heat from data centers used to provide heat" - there I fixed it. Better would be "heat from data centers provides heat to low income housing, reducing residents' costs even as heating prices rise" This is systems thinking.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Elon #Musk who wants to terraform Mars to make it livable for humans (and presumably our food sources) seems an unlikely person to be politically aligned with #climate change #deniers, but here we are.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
People in the US always are surprised when I remind them that the first vice president to address global warming was not Al Gore. The first candidate was a republican. The first president was a republican. Let's go to the videotape!
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years since that awful Tuesday morning and I recall the horror and the heroism. And the ultimate failure of the perpetrators. lnkd.in/p/eFuWCv2E
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For 911 will not share images of the horror, but rather I choose to remember that Americans joined together to fight back - on United 93 - regardless of race, religion, gender or political leanings… |...
For 911 will not share images of the horror, but rather I choose to remember that Americans joined together to fight back - on United 93 - regardless of race, religion, gender or political leanings, l...
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In other news, people don't connect striking the iceberg with inexplicable water intrusion on the Titanic ....
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sadly predictable.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
When public spaces encourage art ... everyone 'wins' #rennes #station #gare
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Increasingly clear #privateequity - with its emphasis on shareholder return over customers, employees, the environment, etc. - is the antithesis of #sustainable #business and #development #PE
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
They didn't fail to see the trend. They curried favor of a climate denier (who happens to be president) over listening to their customers. #nobailout this time.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Je me souviens I remember Treating allies with respect. In #business or politics, understanding who makes you successful is essential. #canada
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Gonna be intermittent for a while...so goodbye for now.
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Slava Ukraini! The reason we are not all refugees or buried deep under Russian boots is Ukraine. May it prosper always under just peace.
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Giorgio Graffino @giorgiograffino.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Amazing piece on the nature of climate change denial. Less made by bad actors driven by greed, and more made of our individual and collective mind struggling cope with the horror of the climate crisis. The good thing is that action is not only needed, but also possible and, above all, desirable.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A thought about #AI; some are programmed to be user-affirming. Some may be programmed to generate traffic by being 'challenging' (like Meta's algorithm to keep users on line). Will malevolent (divisive) AIs become more profitable/popular? Will it be like #media with alternative realities?
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
People wonder how humans could possibly have built the pyramids (example) but we are watching scientific literacy being lost in real time. Recurring #darkages are a pattern throughout humanity when knowledge *reserved for the powerful* becomes a threat to their continued dominance.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Good to see investing in the future, not the past. #energy is essential. So too a livable planet.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
90% (16,200) of the 18,000 comments posted to the US SEC website in response to dropping #climate disclosures were in favor of having the disclosures. Comments came from asset managers, investment funds as well as environmental groups. Climate #risk is #business risk Climate risk is investment risk
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Evidence is all around that GOVERNANCE is most important to have when building a #sustainable company, organization or country. Without systems & accountability it relies on individuals making 'right' decisions. We are seeing just how those 'guardrails' that rely on tacit agreement can fail.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Too easy to obsess on Trump but I continue to focus on the topics. Renewable #energy is the future. Get with the program or be left behind (and likely litigated). #economics win over the long term. Treat #employees with dignity, respect and empowerment gets the best results #dei is good business
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Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🔥 New data in: This is was a #solar #energy revolution looks like: an exponential adoption curve 📈 : ☀️ 2012: 100 GW ☀️ 2022: 1 TW (took 10 years from 2012) ☀️ 2024: 2 TW (took 2 years from 2022) ☀️ 2026: 3 TW (took 18 months from 2024)
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The future is clear. US government policy is a mistake. US automakers taking the short-term view is ... suicide. They ignored quality and safety ... were bailed out. They ignored economy, and needed rescuing again. No taxpayer funded bailout this time. Time for economics to win over politics.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If you have a chance, please check out my latest LinkedIn post. Reflecting on the last 26 years in #Sustainability #csr #esg evolution. www.linkedin.com/posts/johnfr...
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A lot has changed since I started in Sustainability back in 2000. Back then the CO2 level has 370 parts per million (ppm). Now it is approaching 430. We are seeing the impacts of a warming planet in… ...
A lot has changed since I started in Sustainability back in 2000. Back then the CO2 level has 370 parts per million (ppm). Now it is approaching 430. We are seeing the impacts of a warming planet in l...
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#Reporting is step, not the result. It is beginning of 'measuring what matters' when it is taken seriously as business intelligence. I know a company that anually submitted same data to CDP (checking the box). They failed to manage topics that they acknowledged were material to their success.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Markets are still valuing #reputation over #assets. How does a company build 'reputational capital'? Effective sustainability efforts starting with sound goverance. oceantomo.com/intangible-a...
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Intangible Asset Market Value Study - Ocean Tomo
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Moment of Zen #nature
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
One day we will just call it "business." Using separate language, issuing separate reports, acronyms, and even using the traditional language to mean something else ('materiality') all contribute to the idea that what we are doing is separate, apart & distinct from the business of business.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
His moral leadership is sadly lacking today. I don't suggest 27 years incarceration as a prerequisite for public service, but it certainly contributed to Mandela's wisdom and temperament.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
First "planned obsolescence." Then 1970s fuel economy at expense of safety. American automakers have been chasing imports ever since. Again clinging to the past & losing the market. Bet taxpayers get stuck with the bill - again. Bailouts = avoided consequences www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/m...
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Bonne fete nationale mes amis 🇫🇷! Liberte, egalite, fraternite toujours.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Paying companies to NOT develop clean, cheap(er), reliable domestic #energy and making us even more dependent on unreliable foreign sources is just about the most backward policy I can imagine.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I absolutely am disgusted by those who are using the death of Lindsay Graham to bash him for potentially having been gay. The senator has a long public record for which he can rightfully be criticized. To engage in homophobia is cheap, disgusting and contemptable. Just like when he did it.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Needs to be more widely known. Sharing for that purpose.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Fractional is not new. When I started out, sustainability was unproven & smaller part of my job. As it grew in importance, my duties shifted until it was the majority of my objectives. Then I was given a small team + a network of people who devoted part of their time. Their roles grew to full time.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We told you it wasn't going anywhere. When something is strategic, value-adding and risk-reducing it is just good business. That's it. The entire "business case" summed up. #csr #sustainability #dei #risk #climate #esg
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Rest in peace #BonnieTyler
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When the history of this time in American history is written it will be presented as a conflict between rank depravity and rank incompetence. #platner #maine
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
All the calls to add air conditioning to places that historically have not needed it demonstrate the perverse incentive that some businesses expect to profit from climate change.
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Thank goodness
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It would be wonderful if #TaylorSwift and #TravisKelce completely threw off the media and paparazzi and got married somewhere else in a private ceremony.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Yet more evidence new renewable energy projects are just much, much cheaper than new gas power plants. www.businessgreen.com/news/4532158...
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IRENA: Renewable electricity avoided $480bn in global fossil fuel costs in 2025
Cost advantages enjoyed by solar, wind, and hydropower compared to coal and gas generation continued to widen in 2025, even before Iran war triggered spike in fossil fuel prices
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Finally evidence they are 'draining the swamp' One of their own creation Not the one they said they would Just like healthcare - no plan! Just like infrastructure - no plan! Just like Iran war - no plan! Not particularly great, huh?
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John Friedman @johntfriedman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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