Salesforce, Accenture drive Sustainability

A few years ago, I thought the climate was in bad shape and that we weren’t doing enough, anything really, to change the picture. There were and are serious consequences to be faced by the global community regarding climate, I thought. So, to make a contribution, I did what I do best, I wrote a book about solutions. It was a good exercise too because it calmed my anxiety about the climate future. I have a lot of science, especially chemistry, in my background and it was reassuring to discover that, chemically at least, the climate situation was reversible.

But it’s sobering to note that the ice ages (there was more than one) were reversed too though it took nature millions of years to stabilize things. The last glaciers only receded to the mountains about ten thousand years ago and concomitantly humans came out of the woods to grow food and establish settlements. My research showed that climate change reversibility could take place on a human time scale if we managed it. Time went on and, because we had a disinterested if not hostile administration in Washington, nothing good happened, if anything things became perceptibly worse.

It’s a new day in many ways and I doubt it’s coincidental that Salesforce and Accenture today announced an upgrade to their partnership to help their corporate customers to track environmental, sustainability and…