Posts tagged companies
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
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
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
Guest Blog | The Financial CHOICE Act: The Wrong Choice for Investors and Companies, Part II
Guest Blog | The Financial CHOICE Act: The Wrong Choice for Investors and Companies, Part II

Does the Financial CHOICE Act’s subtitle – Creating Hope and Opportunity for Investors, Consumers and Entrepreneurs – accurately reflect the bill’s provisions? (Part 2)

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BlogGuest PostGuest post, Holly, Financial Choice Act, Investors, SRI, legislation, Dodd-Frank, Shareholders, transparency, companies, ESG, SEC, Chamber of Commerce, shareholder proposals, investors, Climate Disclosures, sustainability, Sustainablility reporting, board diversity, diversity and inclusion, climate change, human rights, LGBT
Guest Blog | The Financial CHOICE Act: The Wrong Choice for Investors and Companies, Part I
Guest Blog | The Financial CHOICE Act: The Wrong Choice for Investors and Companies, Part I

Does the Financial CHOICE Act’s subtitle – Creating Hope and Opportunity for Investors, Consumers and Entrepreneurs – accurately reflect the bill’s provisions? (Part 1)

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BlogGuest PostGuest post, Holly, Financial Choice Act, Investors, SRI, legislation, Dodd-Frank, Shareholders, 1%, apple, materiality, transparency, companies, BlackRock, Bloomberg, ESG, SEC, Chamber of Commerce
Foes Turn Friends to Heal Oceans, Forests, and Climate
Foes Turn Friends to Heal Oceans, Forests, and Climate

Earth Day 50 Challenge Unites Strange Bedfellows using the “Greenpeace-Walmart Effect”

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Press ReleaseFuture 500Future 500, Editorial team, Oceans, Forests, Climate, climate change, climate action, environment, activists, corporations, Greenpeace-Walmart Effect, companies, advocates, collaboration, odd-bedfellows, odd bedfelows, EarthX, Earth Day 50, Earth Day, Earth Day Texas, corporate leaders, corporate, market solutions, Trammell, supply chains, supply chain advocacy, environmental challenges, innovation, force for good, systemic change, executives, environmentalists, environmental leaders, Dallas, Summit, Future 500 Summit
Guest Blog | Shareowners to Companies: Take Action on Climate!
Guest Blog | Shareowners to Companies: Take Action on Climate!

According to the latest Proxy Preview, a comprehensive overview of the 2016 shareholder season, this may well be the “Year of the Environment”—with a focus on climate.

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BlogGuest PostGuest post, Holly, Shareholders, shareholder activism, shareholder resolutions, Climate, climate action, companies, social license, stakeholders, shareowners, environment, sustainability, sustainable governance, SRI, ESG, climate change, corporate leaders, investors, investing, fossil fuels, risk management, carbon, energy, renewable energy, renewables, Stakeholder Engagement
How Industry Fuels the Anti-Plastics Movement — or Avoids It
How Industry Fuels the Anti-Plastics Movement — or Avoids It

Recycling and packaging campaigns come in a recurring cycle of waves that approach and recede, but rarely quite reach the shore. It’s time to change the cycle.

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BlogFuture 500Danna Moore, Former staff, plastics, sustainability, Stakeholder Engagement, NGOs, companies, corporations, plastic waste, activism, voluntary initiatives, lobbyists, advocates, closed loop, circularity, circular economy, recycling, campaigners, packaging, systemic change, systemic solutions, pollution
BP and Google Leave ALEC: Are Companies Finally Taking Climate Change Seriously?
BP and Google Leave ALEC: Are Companies Finally Taking Climate Change Seriously?

What does a mass exodus from the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council, or Alec, say about stakeholder engagement and climate campaigns?

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BlogKellen KleinKellen, ALEC, Climate change, climate, climate leaders, Corporate Activism, BP, Google, companies, climate activism, climate movement, brand politics, fossil fuels, environment, Climate advocacy, campaigns, shareholders, climate denial, consumer facing brands, millenials, executives, NGOs
Envisioning a Future with Less Doom and Gloom: Opportunities for the Next Generation of Optimists
Envisioning a Future with Less Doom and Gloom: Opportunities for the Next Generation of Optimists

When it comes to stories about the fate of the earth, headlines are usually dominated by tales of gloom and doom. 

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BlogBill ShiremanBill, environmental challenges, environmental, Environmental activism, environment, environmental leaders, environmental action, environmentalists, WWF, energy, carbon, carbon pricing, Sustainability, sustainable brands, sustainable, sustainability leaders, energy efficiency, Agriculture, food, food security, innovation, Market Forces, market solutions, EDF, forests, forestry, deforestation, zero deforestation, greenpeace, Greenpeace, business model, technology, Clean energy, clean tech, Exxon, fossil fuels, optimism, millenials, stakeholders, stakeholder engagement, force for good, companies
10 Tips for Activists When Engaging Companies
10 Tips for Activists When Engaging Companies

We have often seen that activists achieve the highest outcomes with companies when they follow these key tips.

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BlogErik WohlgemuthErik, Danna Moore, Danna, activists, companies, stakeholders, stakeholder engagement, corporations, accountability, corporate, corporate sustainability, CSR, environment, environmental, common ground, force for good, systemic solutions, NGOs, humanization, cycle of demonization, executives, reputation, campaigns, campaigners, media, grassroots, c-suite, executive, business leaders, corporate leaders, respect, business case, engagement strategy, greenwashing, supply chains, supply chain advocacy, activism, transparency, collaboration, NGO, civil society, sustainability, allies
Guest Blog: The 4 Keys to Success when Partnering with NGOs
Guest Blog: The 4 Keys to Success when Partnering with NGOs

Businesses can improve their social and environmental performance and find new market opportunities through partnerships with NGOs.

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BlogGuest PostGuest post, partnerships, NGOs, NGO, stakeholders, Stakeholder, stakeholder engagement, Stakeholder Engagement, companies, relationships, collaboration, odd bedfelows, odd-bedfellows, bridge-building, Oxfam, advocates, activists, Climate, climate, climate risk, climate change, climate action, climate mitigation, environment, innovation, climate leaders, leadership, business leaders, food security, nonprofit, nonprofits, engagement strategy, trust, Engage, Engagement
10 Tips for Stakeholder Engagement with Activists
10 Tips for Stakeholder Engagement with Activists

Companies that are the most successful with stakeholder conflict are always looking at the bigger picture, getting down to the heart of the problem. 

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BlogFuture 500Former staff, Danna, stakeholder engagement, activists, activism, human rights, consumer facing brands, environment, environmental challenges, environmental issues, social issues, corporate campaigns, campaigns, campaigners, corporate, corporations, corporate leaders, engagement strategy, Bridge, bridge-building, humanization, relationships, odd bedfelows, odd-bedfellows, Engagement, companies, grassroots, NGOs, common ground, cycle of demonization, collaboration, Nike, systemic change, systemic solutions, precompetitive collaboration, transparency, internal stakeholders, employees
When Power Meets Purpose: 6 Ways Corporations and Activists Can Unite
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.

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BlogBill ShiremanBill, power, purpose, power and purpose, corporations, activism, activists, collaboration, division, Republicans, Democrats, environmentalists, companies, stakeholders, corporate, corporate leaders, corporate sustainability, common ground, bridge-building, Bridge, BridgeUSA, NGO, NGOs, alliance, allies, alliances, politics, odd bedfelows, odd-bedfellows, climate activism, climate, climate change, climate leaders, energy, energy policy, Clean energy, renewable energy, deforestation, RAN, rainforests, Sierra Club, human rights, social justice, civil society, business leaders, recycling, social impacts
Engage Radically
Engage Radically

New Mckinsey report confirms stakeholder engagement is an important factor in CSR.

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BlogBrendon Steele Brendon, engagement strategy, Engagement, Stakeholder Engagement, stakeholder engagement, stakeholders, Stakeholder, internal stakeholders, external stakeholders, Engage, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, corporations, corporate sustainability, companies, risk management, reputation, relationships, business leaders, business, advocacy, advocates, corporate citizenship, employees, activists, odd bedfelows, odd-bedfellows, trust, bridge-building, listening, Expertise, cooperation