Reflection: How are you making money? Are you living by your values?
A quick framework for self-assessment. How does your work contribute to — or undermine — life on this planet?
For a couple decades, B. Lorraine Smith has worked in corporate sustainability, aka Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria. She still consults in this area, but not in mainstream ESG and sustainability; she's described her journey in this one-and-a-half-hour talk. The terms she uses now are "industrial healing" and "materiality."
If you've got a business and you'd like to consult on sustainability, you can hire her. blorrainesmith.com
If you'd just like to start thinking through a self-assessment, here's the quick framework. Lorraine gave us this free offering in her e-newsletter this morning:
To conduct a Matereality assessment, simply ask the following questions, and then seek the most honest, comprehensive responses possible:
1. What does the business say its purpose is?
2. What is its actual purpose? (i.e. how does it generate revenue?)
3. How does the business contribute to (or undermine) life?
Those three questions form the core of a Matereality assessment.
