The Evolution of Sustainability Accounting - Alice Tepper Marlin 807

 In this program, Hazel Henderson interviews her longtime associate Alice Tepper-Marlin, president-emeritus of SAI International and key founder of the pioneering transition management example: the socially responsible investment movement.  They reminisce on the evolution of this form of accounting which screened portfolios and companies for their ethical, social and environmental performance.  Tepper-Marlin founded the pioneer group, the Council on Economic Priorities (CFP) in the 1960s and Henderson became a board member, along with famed economist Robert Heilbroner, author of The Worldly Philosophers (1999).  Tepper-Marlin recounts the first study by CEP of pollution in 24 pulp and paper companies and how the companies stalled at first but eventually provided data.  CEP’s consumer guide, Shopping for a Better World, sold over 1 million copies and catapulted CEP into creating this new branch of accounting and securities analysis – and Tepper-Marlin into widespread media recognition.  Another successful model of positive transition management!  Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015