In January, the World Economic Forum (WEF) hosted its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. This year, however, there was a new agenda: build a sustainability strategy for the future of business that implements the long-standing “stakeholder capitalism” missions of the World Business Academy and JUST Capital. Following Business Roundtable’s 2019 announcement outlining a new statement of purpose for corporations to serve all […]
Archives for February 2020
Academy Moves Forward on Nuclear Crisis Awareness
On March 11, 2011, there was a seismic catastrophe unrelated to greenhouse gas emissions that devastated the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and placed a huge question mark on the claims of nuclear fission to be a “clean” and relatively benign source of energy. Revelations over the past year have brought alarming clarity to the […]
Making Isla Vista the First Carbon Neutral Community by 2025
David Gershon will discuss the necessary steps to creating a carbon neutral community by 2025 with University of California, Santa Barbara students and Isla Vista community members on February 19th, 2020. SANTA BARBARA, CA — David Gershon, a senior Fellow of the World Business Academy and the founder of the Empowerment Institute, an organization […]
