About Us
Societal issues – such as global climate disruption, terrorism, ecosystem destruction, and poverty – continue to affect billions of people despite the active efforts of the more than 1.5 million non-profits in the US addressing these issues with combined annual expenditures of approximately $700 billion from individual, corporate and foundation giving and assets valued at $2 trillion. While we tend to view these social and ecological problems as separate, hierarchical and competing, they are actually systemic and interrelated. New mechanisms and solutions to address these problems are needed.
It is clear that the industrial revolution and the continued economic growth and acceleration of business activity over the past fifty years have been primary drivers of “un-sustainability.” While business has inarguably begotten great progress and improvements in quality of life worldwide, it has also overshot ecological limits and undermined social systems in pursuit of its own growth and power.
For-profit businesses are increasingly addressing the broader societal and ecological impacts of their actions through “efficiency,” “sustainability,” and “corporate social responsibility” programs, and are realizing substantial opportunities for increasing revenues or profitability as a result. Still, we contend that achieving sustainability must come from a better, interrelated system that combines market forces and non-profit initiatives, and is scalable and replicable. Working towards this better way – a better way - is what we are committed to at Aedi Group.