Aron Cramer 🕎
aroncramer.bsky.social
Aron Cramer 🕎
@aroncramer.bsky.social
Lead BSR www.BSR.org. Advancing just and sustainable business. Politics and sports too. California native and resident.
Just putting it out there…
March 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
My thoughts on how companies can navigate a rapidly changing policy context for #sustainablebusiness in the US and Europe.
The new US administration has been in office for 30 days, and changes have come fast and furious, many of them relating to sustainable business. BSR President and CEO Aron Cramer discusses issues raised with member companies and shares key strategies for navigating a time of uncertainty and change.
Navigating Change: How Business Leaders Can Respond to a Changing Policy Environment | Blog | Sustainable Business Network and Consultancy | BSR
How can companies continue to deliver value and stability while navigating immense pressure from the new US administration to abandon their commitments to sustainable business?
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February 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Join me and my @bsrnews.bsky.social colleague @davidstearns.bsky.social as we dive into the shifting context for #sustainablebusiness at a very consequential time.
February 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Compared with any other major country, the United States has been extremely fortunate in its two immediate neighbors, Canada and Mexico.

Now, incredibly, it is declaring economic war on both of them. This is a war no one can win, and from which tens of millions will lose.

This is insanity.
February 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My take on ten big questions that will shape 2025 for #sustainability.

There are so many uncertainties that questions rather than answers are the best way to make sense of the interlocking changes reshaping our world.

Spoiler alert: some of the questions lead directly to the best answers.
January 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Roughly 35 percent of time-bound sustainability goals set by BSR’s members are set to expire in 2025; another 40 percent are pegged to 2030. How can companies seize this moment to develop goals that are ambitious, credible, and flexible enough to be fit for the future?

#sustainablefuture
Beyond 2025: Setting Credible Sustainability Goals for Long-Term Impact | Blog | Sustainable Business Network and Consultancy | BSR
It's time for business to reflect and plan ahead for sustainability commitments for 2025 and beyond.
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January 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Of course the billionaire founder of Politico was surprised that people canceled their WaPo subscriptions over Bezos' capitulation to Trump. He cannot fathom people wanting to support institutions they believe share their values and aren't transparently hypocritical in claiming to support democracy.
December 30, 2024 at 6:00 PM
#Solar energy: one of many ways #JimmyCarter saw a better future, only to be thwarted by an ideological successor who did a 180 - to America and the world's detriment.

We cannot let this kind of history repeat.

What if Reagan Had Been More Like Carter? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/o...
Opinion | What If Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan Lived In This Alternate Timeline?
Carter’s vision and persistence on solar energy deserve to be brightly illuminated.
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2024 at 5:03 PM
He was fortunate to live long enough to see historians reconsider his presidency.

Human rights, climate and an inclusive America are all part of his legacy.

May his memory be a blessing.
Breaking news: Jimmy Carter, a no-frills and steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, according to his son. He was 100 and the oldest living U.S. president of all time.
Jimmy Carter, 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100, his son says
The tenacious Southerner was turned out of office after one term. But he had a brilliant post-presidential career as a champion of health, peace and democracy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 29, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Many dunk on legacy media for ideological reasons unrelated to actual journalism.

@cnn.com: you only invite this when you rank the bankruptcy of Red Lobster the 3d most important business story of 2024! Really?

(FWIW I’m leaving out their equally absurd treatment of the other place’s owner at #1).
December 28, 2024 at 6:57 PM
You and the pod will be greatly missed @davidaxelrod.bsky.social. What an amazing run of enjoyable and insightful dialogues.

We’ll be delighted if you want to return to the Axe Files after a break!

www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Political World Just Lost its Last Bipartisan Meeting Place
David Axelrod’s podcast was the last place where members of the opposite party could sit down and share ideas.
www.politico.com
December 23, 2024 at 4:27 AM
Great post from @bsrnews.bsky.social #climate and #nature lead Lara Birkes on the essential links between the two.
Over half the world’s GDP depends on nature; an est. $58 trillion is exposed to nature-related risk.

Forward-thinking companies should understand that addressing climate change and protecting nature are intrinsically linked, and that true resilience requires an integrated strategy.

#climatechange
Integrating Climate and Nature: A Dual Approach to Business Resilience | Blog | Sustainable Business Network and Consultancy | BSR
Learn how businesses can better understand the climate and nature nexus and how BSR is guiding our member companies in creating more integrated strategies that consider impacts on human livelihoods.
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December 18, 2024 at 7:08 PM
A life very well lived, with wisdom coming forth well into his tenth decade.

Much to learn for all people in and around business from this insightful man.

RIP Charles Handy, management thinker and author, 1932-2024
December 14, 2024 at 6:05 AM
This is a hill I would die on. Summer is made immeasurably better thanks to #DST. Why oh why would we remove it?

The difficulty of a one hour time change makes no sense.

Does everyone get wiped out if they fly from San Diego to Denver?

C'mon people!
Did standard time donate a million bucks to Trump’s inauguration or what’s going on here?
December 13, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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John Lennon was assassinated 44 years ago today by a man who flew from Hawaii to New York with a handgun in his suitcase. He shot Lennon five times with hollow-point bullets. Since then, over 1.5M people in America have been shot and killed - many more wounded.

Imagine…
December 8, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Looks like maybe the old PAC-12 maybe had something going for it.
The four programs with first-round byes in the first 12-team College Football Playoff:

◽️ Oregon
◽️ Georgia
◽️ Boise State
◽️ Arizona State

www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...
December 8, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Thank you @pkrugman.bsky.social - you have kept a fresh and insightful voice for a quarter century (not something that can be said for all @nytimes.com op-ed columnists).

Your voice will be missed in this space but will - I assume - continue to be heard!
And it’s official. I’m immensely grateful to the world’s greatest news organization for giving me a platform all these years, and greatly appreciate the moving sendoff 1/

www.nytco.com/press/paul-k...
Paul Krugman retires as Times columnist | The New York Times Company
www.nytco.com
December 6, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Not to mention Pell Grants, which enable upward mobility.
These are all bad ideas but cutting that tiny amount for Head Start is especially stupid. In life quality and outcomes it’s hard to beat investing in the first 5 years.
Musk and Ramaswamy have already identified $516B dollars in government savings — it includes cutting all of Veteran’s Affairs health care, eliminating the NIH, and ending funding for federal prisons. @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Snowy football is the best football.
December 2, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Whatever one’s views on the Hunter Biden pardon, Hunter is and always has been a distraction from the real business of American government and politics.
December 2, 2024 at 2:32 AM
He and Charles Kushner: nepo daddies
Another family member: Trump names Massad Boulos, the father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany, as his senior advisor on Arab and Middle East affairs. He already played a major role in Trump's 2024 campaign www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/u...
Trump’s In-Law Is Trying to Exploit Democrats’ Weakness With Arab American Voters
Massad Boulos, Tiffany Trump’s father in-law, has been working behind the scenes to persuade a critical group of voters in Michigan.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Worth considering: would US withdrawal from #ParisAgreement in 2025 be a good or a bad thing? For obvious reasons, it would be irresponsible/damaging. But would the new US admin promote progress or obstruction? Given consensus rules at #COP, the US could use influence to slow/prevent action.
November 24, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Am I wrong to think that the US Attorney General should not wear a religious symbol every time they appear in public?

Seems to me that sort of, you know, suggests a wee bit of favoritism for certain Americans.
November 23, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Showing an understanding of and commitment to the future - a better future. This is very welcome news.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/c...
Automakers Want Trump to Keep Federal E.V. Regulations in Place
Donald J. Trump promised to erase Biden tailpipe rules that are designed to get carmakers to produce E.V.s. But Detroit wants to keep them.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:28 PM
The US elections changed the context for #sustainablebusiness - and reinforced the central importance of the role of business in addressing #climate, #humanrights, #equity, and shared economic progress.

Thoughts from me and my BSR colleague David Korngold.

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BSR on LinkedIn: #sustainablebusiness #sustainablefuture #externalaffairs…
The US elections will have profound implications for the global economy, and sustainable business. The incoming administration has made clear that core…
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November 21, 2024 at 6:37 PM