• Sustainability

Amazon Launches $2B Clean Tech Venture Fund

• Amazon
• carbon emissions
• corporate sustainability
• Jeff Bezos

Yesterday, online retail giant Amazon announced its  Climate Pledge Fund–a $2 billion that will invest in companies that develop innovative ways to reduce carbon emissions. As the Verge explained, The fund will help Amazon and other companies adhere to The Climate Pledge initiative it started in September 2019. That pledge committed the company, and others […]

• Climate Change

U.S. Companies Can’t be “For” Climate Action and Keep Funding Climate Denial

• Climate Denial
• corporate sustainability
• F500
• politics

Yesterday, eleven leading environmental and sustainable business organizations published an open letter urging the CEOs of Corporate America to step up their engagement on climate policy.

Why This Matters: Major corporations can’t be for fighting climate change if their political spending tells the exact opposite story.

• Forests

One Cool Thing: Free Beer for Life

• beer
• Busch
• corporate sustainability

If you’re a fan of Busch beer then this one’s for you: As Fast and Company reported, this Saturday Busch Beer will sponsor a secret pop-up shop (the “Busch Pop Up Schop”) that will last for one day—in a national forest somewhere in America. Attendees will receive free merchandise, with one winner getting free Busch […]

• People

Millennial Spotlight: Jenny Hogrefe of KIND®

• climate change
• corporate sustainability

Jenny Hogrefe is the Wellness and Sustainability Manager at KIND Snacks. KIND is a food company with a mission to spread kindness and create snacks made with nutritionally-dense ingredients that avoid secret ingredients, artificial flavors, preservatives, and sweeteners. ODP: How did you choose your career in corporate sustainability? JH: I was raised in a very […]

• Climate Change

Tweet of the Week: Amazon employees demand climate action at shareholder meeting

• Amazon
• corporate sustainability
• CSR
• Jeff Bezos

Today is Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting. Nearly 7,700 Amazon employees signed their name publicly asking Bezos and the board to adopt our climate change resolution. Employees want to LEAD on the climate crisis. A thread on our historic, collective action 👇 https://t.co/9hdFAJTmGL — Emily Cunningham (@emahlee) May 22, 2019 After nearly 8,000 Amazon employees signed […]

• Energy

One cool thing: Apple’s deepening commitment to 100% renewables

• 100 percent renewables
• 100%
• Apple
• corporate sustainability
• CSR

While Apple has managed to power 100% of its operations from renewable energy (in fact, it’s already 1 gigawatt beyond the target of 4 gigawatts it established for 2020), the company announced that it will help its supply chain reach the same goal. Since about 3/4 of Apple’s carbon footprint comes from manufacturing, almost all […]