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Podcast from GreenBiz
The green finance revolution (17:07)
This week, GreenBiz welcomed veteran sustainable investing advocate Mark Tulay to oversee development of sessions on environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics, measurement and sustainable investing at February’s GreenBiz 20 event, as well as the accompanying GreenFin Summit, in Phoenix. As head of ESG for Risk Metrics Group (now MSCI), Tulay helped create an ESG fund for the largest 400 companies in Japan. He was also the first full-time employee of Ceres. Tulay chats with Executive Editor Joel Makower about the “crisis of confidence in capitalism” that is leading forward-thinking companies to embed ESG concerns and risk factors into their management ethos.
A model for urban infrastructure resilience (22:40)
Rebuild or reimagine? After Superstorm Sandy devastated the Kearny Point commercial and industrial site in 2012, real estate developer Hugo Neu made a bold decision to embark on a $1 billion redevelopment project intended to serve as a model for green infrastructure and public-private collaboration for urban resilience. This segment features highlights from our chat with CEO Wendy Neu and Senior Vice President Dominique Lueckenhoff, the former EPA official who joined the company this spring.
