• Can Fashion Ever Be Sustainable?

    The fashion industry is increasingly heeding calls to be more sustainable. High street brands speak of their closed-loop supply chains, while the high-end speaks of small-batch, ethically-produced garments.

    But for an industry that is inherently geared towards the new… can it ever really be sustainable?

    Alice Payne, dean of RMIT’s school of fashion and textiles, and Ken Pucker, the former chief operating officer at Timberland, join Blueprint to discuss.

    https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/blueprintforliving/can-fashion-ever-be-sustainable-alice-payne-ken-pucker/102050096

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  • The Outdoor Industry Has A Big Problem with Ken Pucker

    The outdoor industry is often defined by the brands who create the gear and apparel that help enable our adventures.
    But every year the output of goods continues to increase and despite greener components like recycled fabrics and less harmful chemicals, the process to create the stuff we love is damaging. Plus even if something is built to last a long time, almost everything that gets made still has a one way ticket to a landfill.
    So what do we do? We pick a fight..with Ken Pucker on our side.
    Ken is the former COO of Timberland and he serves on the board of MIGHTY EARTH, a global advocacy organization ‘working to defend a living planet’.
    This combination of working at the intersection of capitalism and the environment gives Ken unique insight into the biggest issue our industry faces. Today Ken joins in THE ROCK FIGHT to talk about how we got here, how much the outdoor industry is leading on this topic and the options we have to achieve a greener future.
    https://open.spotify.com/episode/33BUGircPXHPpbhLMdBi38
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  • Green Flags: Can One Worker Spark Corporate Climate Action

    You won’t find “climate action” listed in most job descriptions, at least outside of sustainability. But why not? After all, there’s a huge economic upside for companies that invest aggressively in climate solutions and advocate boldly for climate policy. For those days when climate change feels too big for one person to make an impact, Adam and Maude remind us of the tremendous influence one worker – in any job – can wield in advocating within their companies for stronger action to confront the climate crisis.

    Guests include: Bill Wiehl, founder of Climate Voice and former Google Green Energy Czar and Facebook Head of Sustainability; Ken Pucker, former Timberland Chief Operating Officer and a leading advisor, investor, and educator focusing on sustainability and ESG (Tufts University, Boston University & Berkshire Partners); and Catherine Champagne, marketing manager at Rainbow Wallet.

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/green-flags/id1669566075?i=1000600567851

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  • Is ESG Investing Impactful And / Or Profitable?

    There is a strong appetite in the investment community right now for sustainable funds to invest in but does that investment lead to sustainable outcomes, and also important – is it a sound investment?

    I read a couple of fascinating articles recently by Ken Pucker which addresses these questions so I invited him to come on the podcast to talk this through. Ken is the former COO of Timberland, is an Advisory Director at Berkshire Partners, and is a Senior Lecturer at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

    The two articles of Ken’s that I read were:

    1. The Trillion Dollar Fantasy: Linking ESG Investing with Planetary Impact and
    2. Heroic Accounting

    You should check them out.

    This was a truly fascinating episode of the podcast and as always, I learned loads, I hope you do too.

    https://www.audible.com/pd/Is-ESG-Investing-Impactful-And-Or-Profitable-A-Chat-With-Ken-Pucker-Podcast/B09GRGKBB2

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  • Rethinking the Rules of Sustainable Fashion

    In the latest podcast from Ecotextile Talks, former Timberland chief operating officer (COO) Ken Pucker shares some home truths about the success of current ESG (environmental, social and governance) frameworks in play across the fashion industry.

    Pucker, now an advisory director at Berkshire Partners, as well as providing advice to groups pressing for the New York Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act, says the sector has jumped from one initiative to another over the past 25 years in the hope of finding a formula to drive transformative environmental and social change in the apparel industry, but concludes that “it hasn’t worked”.

    https://www.ecotextile.com/2022021728979/fashion-retail-news/podcast-re-thinking-the-rules-of-fashion.html

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  • The Myth of Sustainable Fashion and ESG

    The following is a conversation with Ken Pucker.

    Ken is an Advisory Director to Berkshire Partners, and currently teaches Sustainability at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. In addition to this, and among many other things as well, Ken also formally served as Chief Operating Officer of Timberland.

    This conversation is broken down into two distinctly defined chapters. The first being ESG and the second, Ken’s viral article on the myth of sustainable fashion.

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  • The Sustainability Story: Casting a Critical Eye at Sustainability Inc. and ESG Investing

    The Sustainability Story PodcastWe talk with Ken Pucker, Advisory Director at Berkshire Partners and a Senior Lecturer at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
    We discuss Ken’s time at Timberland, where he was at the forefront of the company’s social responsibility movement. We talk about the challenges facing the sustainable finance, ESG investing and impact accounting.

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/casting-a-critical-eye-at-sustainability-inc-and/id1581786457?i=1000549766038

     

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  • Can Accountants Save the Planet

    Are you familiar with sustainable finance? ESG investing? Impact accounting? No? That’s ok, neither were we – that is until we met Ken Pucker. Ken is the Advisory Director at Berkshire Partners and a Senior Lecturer at the Fletcher School at Tufts University – he is also the former COO of Timberland. In today’s episode, Ken helps pull back the curtain on sustainability reporting, the myth of sustainable fashion, and how accounts just might be the unlikely heroes in giving our world a fighting chance at a more sustainable future. Read more from Ken Pucker on HBR: https://hbr.org/search?term=kenneth%20p.%20pucker Break Some Dishes is an Imagine a Place Production, presented by OFS: https://ofs.com/imagine-a-place

     

    https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/81365e3f-0c57-42c3-b9f4-b692170482ec/episodes/038b34c3-0ffe-4726-a158-8ca3daa4dfe7/break-some-dishes-can-accountants-save-the-planet

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