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Welcome back to work.  We hope you had a great holiday and New Years.

If 2024 was challenging for our profession, 2025 won’t be easier. The complexity in which we are mired will only grow. I have two suggestions for sustainability practitioners to help maintain sanity during the new year:

  • Strive for simplicity in your conversations, communications and business cases.
  • Don’t try to know everything, but know what resources are available to help you where you need it.

These thoughts aren’t particularly deep or philosophical, but they may help keep you centered when things get too overwhelming and feelings of burnout start creeping in.

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Lawrence Heim has been practicing in the field of ESG management for almost 40 years. He began his career as a legal assistant in the Environmental Practice of Vinson & Elkins working for a partner who is nationally recognized and an adjunct professor of environmental law at the University of Texas Law School. He moved into technical environmental consulting with ENSR Consulting & Engineering at the height of environmental regulatory development, working across a range of disciplines. He was one… View Profile

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