This podcast peeks behind the influential Beyond Coal Campaign. In the early 2000’s, existing coal plants in the United States were the single biggest source of greenhouse gases in the nation as well as the single biggest source of mercury pollution and  toxic water pollution. As a result, they were the single biggest contributor to […]

This podcast looks at the significance and impact of shareholder activism to push companies to assess, report and improve their environmental policies and practices. Companies need to be responsible for and reduce their carbon pollution not only in their own operations and sourcing, but in the companies whose materials they use to make their products, […]

This interview with Toben Dilworth, Art director of the Rainforest Action Network, explores the power of using art, images and video in campaigns. Toben shares examples and lessons learned through the use of images in corporate campaigns.

This podcast introduces 350.org’s fossil fuel divestment campaign. In the podcast May Boeve talks about the link between climate change and fossil fuel investments, and the moral and economic argument for divesting from fossil fuels. The fossil fuel divestment movement exists to demonstrate that if it’s wrong to cause climate change, it’s wrong to profit […]

This podcast introduces the US Tar Sands campaign network. In the podcast, Michael discusses strategy and tactics with Kenny Bruno, who was the US campaign coordinator of the bi-national campaign with Canada. “We aimed to stop the reckless and rapid expansion of the dirtiest project on earth, the tar sands industry in Alberta. One of […]

This podcast features Stacy Malkan, the Communications Director of the the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics which targeted the largest cosmetic and personal care product companies such as Johnson & Johnson, OPI, Estee Lauder, and Procter & Gamble. “We analyzed and reported on toxic chemicals in everyday products, pressured companies to reformulate, and engaged women across […]

In this podcast, Electica’s Jim Arkedis shares his insights on online corporate campaign strategy and tactics, from social media to ads on YouTube and streaming services, and how they have evolved over the last 20 years. Electica is a digital advertising technology company, spanning the US, UK, EU, and other countries around the world.

This podcast takes an inside look at the Challenging Big Tobacco Campaign which began in 1993 and targeted Philip Morris, RJR Nabisco and British American Tobacco. Tobacco addiction, disease and death is a preventable global epidemic that kills millions of people each year. Kathy Mulvey explains: “This campaign challenged tobacco transnationals to stop addicting new […]

This podcast looks at the Levi Strauss Campaign on Clean Renewable Energy also known as the “Too Dirty to Wear Campaign”. Calculations range from 5% to 8% that the fashion sector is responsible for that amount of global emissions. The goal of the campaign, as told by Todd Paglia, was to pressure Levi’s to be a fashion […]

This podcast focuses on tackling the issue of deforestation within the palm oil industry. Palm oil had destroyed more than 30,000 square miles of forest across Southeast Asia. It had destroyed habitat for tens or hundreds of thousands of orangutans and other endangered wildlife. The destruction of these ultra carbon rich peatlands was spewing carbon […]