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Sustainable Energy & Environmental Demand
(SEED)
Corporations and stakeholders coming together to drive demand for secure, sustainable technologies
Future 500, a leader in stakeholder engagement, specializes in bringing corporations, NGOs, and governmental officials together to achieve outcomes that promote global prosperity: economic, social and environmental. We operate at the intersection of these sectors, applying our methodology to help disparate stakeholders come together to identify the common ground needed to address society’s most pressing problems.
“Oil is an indulgence we can no longer afford, not just because it will run out or turn the planet into a sauna,
but because it inexorably leads to global conflict. Enough.” Peter Schwartz, Wired, August 2003
One of these problems is petroleum dependence. Fortunately, numerous technologies are emerging today that can help reduce our oil dependency.
Leveraging our role as intermediaries, Future 500 is bringing together NGOs, corporations, and government to develop markets for these emerging technologies – bioplastics, biodiesel, bioethanol, etc. -- that will help transition us from a petroleum economy to a bio-economy. To hasten this transition, we must mobilize the grassroots power of NGOs to encourage business and government to leverage their tremendous buyer power to support these technologies.
We have dubbed our effort SEED to reflect the potential for these technologies to blossom and promote global prosperity. Our first SEED initiative is focused on hastening transition from a petroleum economy to a bio-economy. We are collaborating with several NGOs in pursuing this initiative and invite others to join us.
To learn more, you can download our bio-economy white paper. For background on how SEED orginated and how it is funded, click here. We encourage your feedback, but more importantly, we encourage you to take action! Take a moment to endorse the SEED Action Agenda encouraging sustainable technologies procurement. Together, we will make this vision a reality.
