Future 500 brings together strategically-selected companies, NGOs, and opinion leaders to overcome mutual distrust and advance systemic solutions.
We do this by leveraging our extensive global network of multi-sector stakeholder opinion leaders active in our four program areas, using an informal strategic engagement approach that is more effective at finding genuine common ground between corporations and stakeholders.
- Pepsi and Competitors Scramble as Soda Sales Drop - NYTimes.com
- SFGate.com : Again? Wal-Mart's rep takes another beating
- Oil Scare Turns FedEx On To Energy Efficiency : NPR
- New science reveals agriculture’s true climate impact | Grist
- Subsidies 101: A guide to corporate handouts, and why we shouldn’t stand for them | Grist
- The Worst Farm Bill Ever? | Mother Jones
- Arctic oil rush will ruin ecosystem, warns Lloyd's of London | The Guardian
- McKibben’s Extreme Energy: “Why Not Frack?” - CSRHUB
Future 500 President & CEO Bill Shireman sat down with Former Secretary of State George Shultz to discuss energy, national security and a carbon tax shift in preparation for the UnConvention at the Commit!Forum October 2 - 3, 2012. Check back soon to view a brief video excerpt.
The March issue of the Retail Industry Leaders Association newsletter features Harnessing the Power of the Supply Chain by Engaging Stakeholders, by Future 500 President & CEO, Bill Shireman and Rebecca Foges, Future 500's Senior Manager of Stakeholder Engagement.
LISTEN to Future 500 Chief Operating Officer, Erik Wohlgemuth in an interview with China Dialogue about how corporate environmental rankings reflect the actual environmental impact of a firm.
READ Future 500's annual list of Top 10 Issues and Campaigns of 2012.
Tech Planet Journal - Promoting prosperity, democracy, and sustainability via communications technology. Follow Future 500's newest initiative via RSS feed
Read Future 500 Senior Fellow Bruce Piasecki's new book Doing More With Less in which he explores the need to return to frugality, much like Ben Franklin, and become more inventive and industrious to capture a competitive edge.
Plasticity Rio '12 is a one-day side-event to the Rio 2012 Earth Summit that will explore innovations/solutions that industry and community leaders are undertaking to ensure that plastic and used material is treated as a resource, therefore minimizing its impacts on our shared global ecosystem. More details »
Be heard on climate policy. Endorse the US Climate Taskforce's Principles for Energy and Climate Change Legislation!
Egyptian mothers take to the Internet - blog post by Future 500 Director of Labor & Transparency, Juliette Terzieff.
"Human Rights and Mobile Telephony" - blog post by Future 500 Chief Operations Officer, Erik Wohlgemuth.
The State of the Union and the Power of Technological Change, by Future 500 Senior Fellow Dr. Robert J. Shapiro.
LISTEN to our teleconference with Neville Isdell, former CEO of Coca-Cola, on Connected Capitalism.
LISTEN to Future 500 Chief Operating Officer, Erik Wohlgemuth in an interview about Future 500's innovative work forging unlikely alliances.
Geoengineering: Ethical branding: Fairtrade laid bare, by Jon Entine.
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