Quantifying the ROI of Sustainability
January 4, 2020

Sustainability R.O.I. Issue #21 PreCap — Special Edition

Welcome to Valutus Sustainability R.O.I. Special ReCap/PreCap Edition. In it we Recap 2019, and Precap the new year — and boy, is it ever shaping up to be a humdinger! What will we be talking about this time next year? We've consulted our crystalline spheres, stopped in at Delphi, and even looked up a little hard data — hey, it's us. Read on for our 2020 prognostications.
January 3, 2020

“…I’m Glad I Know You, George Bailey!”

Happily, many of us just had a short break, a breather, a catnap away from the fretting and the struggling and the urgency and foreboding that comes with working on sustainability. As you rise and turn to your overcoats and galoshes once more, take stock of your own impact, of what your contributions mean to us all. How? We suggest the George Bailey method: what would the world have been like if you had never been born?
December 20, 2019

Gold Does Not Always Glitter…

There's gold in them thar' hills, but the process of getting it out of the hills is a costly one for the environment. Headlines such as, “The Environmental Disaster That is the Gold Industry,” are not encouraging to the argument that mining gold is worth it.
December 13, 2019

So That’s Where it Was!

A cross-country trip via Greyhound occasioned a stop in the blasted moonscape of Sudbury, Ontario. It was a weird place in 1975, with a giant Canadian nickel presiding over a town with no trees, no animals or birds, just rock stained black by metals. What led to the destruction of greater Sudbury's environment, and the 40-years of painstaking, award-winning repairs, bears examination.