“The Biden administration can’t do much about the right’s hostility to government. But it can confront the mistakes and divisions on the left,” Ezra Klein writes. nyti.ms/3wX152k

For the rest of 2022, any private equity leaders purporting to speak about how private equity is or should be socially responsible should be asked what their firm has done directly or indirectly to support the loopholes here.

For all the would-be changemakers out there

What's this Honest Work all about? Check out this The Royal Society of Arts blog about our plan to improve worker voice and help them make their companies more #sustainable and ethical thersa.org/comment/2022/0…

The first Honest Work newsletter is out - covering: - Pros and cons of different levers of change we have at our disposal - Potential of changing workplaces from within and some success stories to date - First of many ACTIONS you will be asked to take newsletter.honestwork.org/p/how-will-you…

In The Coddling, great untruth #2 was "always trust your feelings." Here @NotoriousTIB shows how social media spreads it, hitched to the triumph of the therapeutic: nytimes.com/2022/11/12/opi…

From Peter Singer 's 'The Life You Can Save'; book available free at thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/

Workers throughout history have put their livelihood on the line to oppose slavery, fascism, apartheid. Even in tough times, workers have shown they care about making the world a better place newsletter.honestwork.org/p/a-brief-hist…

Inspired by my convo w/ Colin Megill this weekend, I wish there was a Forbes "almost billionaires" list of people who open-sourced their innovations and turned them over to the commons. Let's elevate that prosocial behavior in contrast w/ financial value generation alone.

More and more employees are waking up to the contribution their companies may be making to #climatechange . Yet just about as widespread - and less understood - is the contribution many companies make to #humanrights violation. Find out more here honestwork.org/what-to-change…

I've got a question for you. By how much will the richest 1% need to cut their per capita emissions to stay on track for 1.5˚? Pause. Guess. Then open the thread for the answer!👇🏾

Speaking up at work to push your company on its sustainability strategy is rarely welcomed. #greenwashing is still rampant, companies' actions greatly lag their words. But as this lag begins to close, those internal advocates will be well-placed to lead. newsletter.honestwork.org/p/employee-act…

We're probably going to see what happened at the Times happen a lot more often in future

Throwing another one in the #InternationalWorkersDay mix - how about giving workers more say over environmental and social issues at their companies? I think we'd be happier with the outcomes newsletter.honestwork.org/p/a-new-right-… #MayDay #LabourDay

The makers of the Instant Pot filed for bankruptcy recently, even though their most famous product is still beloved by many users. Those two things aren't unrelated, writes Amanda Mull. The Instant Pot's popularity helped seal its fate. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Sometimes it's easy to identify the main real-world #impact of the company you work for, other times it's less obvious. Here are some tips and places you might find what you're looking for newsletter.honestwork.org/p/finding-your… #EmployeeActivism #ESG

How today's scraps will be tomorrow's sustainable buildings | Vinu Daniel ift.tt/Rx6qObj #EdChat

The danger of the very serious person on.ft.com/3U2fQv4 | opinion

Cycling from Las Palmas, Canary Islands, back to my native Ireland. I've got a few projects I'm trying to get over the line at the same time, so put together a little Christmas-themed workchart to keep me motivated #buildinpublic #SustainableLiving

Of the 19 books I read in 2025, some were excellent, none were terrible but a few were meh. Here's a few worth calling out #books