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Future 500′s staff and partners continually write about the latest developments in sustainability. If you would like to submit a guest post, please contact us.

May 22 2013 / News / No Comments

Stakeholder Engagement: Rock, Paper… People?

People aren’t much like rocks, at least last time I checked.  So when I recently heard an extractives executive at a conference compare stakeholder engagement...

May 22 2013 / News / No Comments

What is the Value of Being First?

I recently attended an exciting one-day conference comparing climate policy in California and Sweden.  Hosted by Resources for the Future, ClimateWorks Foundation, and the Swedish...

May 7 2013 / News / No Comments

The Promise and Limits of Ingenuity

Remarks by Bill Shireman addressing the event Responding to Ecological Loss: The Promise and Limits of Ingenuity, May 6, 2013 in Washington D.C. I’m privileged to lead...

May 7 2013 / Guest Post / No Comments

Toasting ‘American-style’ EPR

Earlier this year, New Belgium Brewing pledged a one-time donation of $10,000 to support a cost-benefit analysis of extended producer responsibility (EPR). The research is...

Barack Obama

May 5 2013 / News / No Comments

Obama Will Approve Keystone – What Then?

An Energy And Innovation Agenda Both Sides Could Support A bold new vision to unite left and right, the business community and activists, in a plan...

Apr 26 2013 / News / No Comments

When Power Meets Purpose: 6 Ways Corporations and Activists Can Unite

Over and over, I am bewildered by the anger and vitriol that often divides groups that love to hate and demonize each other – Republicans...

Apr 24 2013 / News / No Comments

Responding to Ecological Loss

The Promise and Limits of Ingenuity A discussion co-hosted by Resources for the Future’s Center for the Management of Ecological Wealth (CMEW) and the National Science Foundation’s Socio-Environmental...

Apr 22 2013 / News / No Comments

Talking Climate Change

Future 500′s President and CEO Bill Shireman sat down with Professor Richard Muller from Berkeley Earth and discussed Muller’s recent climate change research, the importance of...

Apr 18 2013 / News / No Comments

The End of Climate Silence

The Next Wave of Activism—And Potential Agreement Amid a backdrop of severe and often catastrophic weather events in 2012, the environmental grassroots reignited around climate change....

Apr 9 2013 / News / No Comments

Corporate-NGO Engagement in times of rising Activism

How can companies successfully engage with activist NGOs? What is the right engagement strategy after a company has become target of a Name, Blame, Shame...

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