Ask an Advocate Anything: Jennifer Krill, Earthworks
Ask an Advocate Anything: Jennifer Krill, Earthworks

To Earthworks executive director Jennifer Krill, ‘business as usual’ is driving the world straight into a climate catastrophe.

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BlogJames GlaveJames, ask an advocate, ask an advocate anything, activism, activists, campaigners, campaigns, fossil fuels, oil, gas, pollution, emissions, carbon, methane, mining, collaboration, accountability, advocacy, advocates, Corporate Social Responsibility, Clean energy, environment, environmental justice, Ecosystems, natural resources, climate justice, air pollution, climate action, climate activism, climate
Ask an Advocate Anything: Mike Schade, Mind The Store
Ask an Advocate Anything: Mike Schade, Mind The Store

Chemicals advocate Mike Schade has a warning for retailers: The market is moving to transparency and safer materials, and you should be ahead of that trend.

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BlogKellen KleinJames, campaigners, advocates, advocacy, ask an advocate, pollution, companies, campaigns, dialogue, conversation, collaboration, packaging, chemicals, chemistry, chemicals of concern, Mike Schade, Mind The Store, regulation by retail, market campaigns, transparency, safer chemicals healthy families, risk management, hazard, risk, green chemistry
What Went Down in Dallas
What Went Down in Dallas

Our annual Future 500 Summit at EarthX recently wrapped in Dallas, Texas. Here are 14 takeaways, observations, and things that made us go “hmmm….”

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BlogEllen GriesemerEllen, Dallas, Future 500 Summit, EarthX, Earth Day Texas, Stakeholder Engagement, odd bedfelows, Chatham House, leaders, leadership, NGOs, corporate leaders, activists, funders, ESG, environmental justice, social movements, carbon tax, stakeholders, stakeholder engagement, Engagement
Ask an Advocate Anything: Kendra Ulrich, Stand.earth
Ask an Advocate Anything: Kendra Ulrich, Stand.earth

Stand.earth targets companies like Carnival Corporation with high-profile, hard-hitting campaigns. Kendra Ulrich walks us through her group’s most recent action.

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BlogJames GlaveJames, ask an advocate, campaigns, campaigners, pollution, environment, environmental issues, health, air quality, air pollution, shipping, cruise sector, advocacy, advocates, activists, activism, dialogue, stakeholder engagement, fossil fuels, companies, corporations, CSR, transportation, leadership, corporate campaigns, NGOs, science based targets, collaboration, ask an advocate anything
What Does it Mean to be a “Good Corporate Citizen” in 2019?
What Does it Mean to be a “Good Corporate Citizen” in 2019?

From the mail room to the C-Suite, companies are actively rethinking their own role in tackling big challenges. Here’s why everything is changing, and why that’s a good thing.

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BlogGavriella KeylesGavi, Gavriella, corporate citizenship, CSR, corporate sustainability, Corporate Affiliates Network, corporate leaders, Sustainability, sustainability leaders, CAN, corporate, Corporate Social Responsibility, corporations, employees, millennials, millennial workforce, stakeholders, stakeholder engagement, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder, corporate culture, listening, collaboration, supply chain advocacy, supply chains, environment, Market Forces, trends, engagement strategy, Engage, Engagement, fossil fuels, carbon, carbon pricing, carbon tax
Ask an Advocate Anything: John Hocevar, Greenpeace
Ask an Advocate Anything: John Hocevar, Greenpeace

John Hocevar, Greenpeace’s Ocean Campaigns Director, says a “perfect storm” of trends is poised to unleash a surge of action on marine debris.

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BlogKellen KleinJames, plastics, plastic waste, oceans, Oceans, Greenpeace, greenpeace, campaigners, advocates, advocacy, ask an advocate, pollution, plastic pollution, marine debris, single-use plastic, companies, campaigns, consumer facing brands, fossil fuels, climate, climate change, carbon, energy companies, energy, grassroots, coalition, dialogue, conversation, collaboration, packaging
CEOs for Voting and Against Executing Journalists
CEOs for Voting and Against Executing Journalists

Companies are typically reticent to take public positions on issues, but this has been rapidly shifting, particularly since November 2016. 

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BlogErik WohlgemuthErik, Brands Taking Stands, brand advocacy, CEO Activists, CEOs, CEO activism, companies, Corporate Activism, corporate leaders, corporations, Top 10 Stakeholder Engagement Trends, Top 10, Stakeholder Engagement, CAN, Corporate Affiliates Network, trends, democracy, voter turnou, voter turnout, Brands, bottom line, triple bottom line, millennials
Fist Bump: Kayaks, Fleece, and Market Forces
Fist Bump: Kayaks, Fleece, and Market Forces

REI raises the bar with their sustainable purchasing standards – and hikes up the incentive for lower-impact products in the outdoor industry and beyond.

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BlogKellen KleinKellen, Fist Bump, REI, Outdoor Retail, Market Forces, sustainability, sustainability leaders, outdoor industry, force for good, sustainable procurement, sustainability standards, supply chains, environment, upstream, upstream impacts, chemicals, environmental impacts, social impacts, regulation by retail, supplier standards, millennials, responsible manufacturing
Odd Bedfellows Descend on Dallas
Odd Bedfellows Descend on Dallas

Future 500 is bringing strange bedfellows together in Dallas, Texas for a series of conversations that will seek to heal divides across the environmental and political spectrums.

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BlogBill ShiremanBill, Dallas, odd-bedfellows, odd bedfelows, Republicans, Democrats, climate change, collaboration, Texas, Earth Day Texas, EarthX, Earth Day 50, Earth Day, division, common ground, Summit, Future 500 Summit, Future 500, environment, environmentalists, alliances, Fortune 500, NGO, NGOs, force for god, Bridge, BridgeUSA, bridge-building