B Corps Mobilize to Support Climate Action with Global Climate Strikes, B Corp Climate Collective, and more.

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B Corps Mobilize for Climate Action with Global Climate Strikes & Beyond

Certified B Corporation companies from our local and national communities are mobilizing to take collective action on the climate emergency. Many B Corps are supporting the Global Climate Strike place this Friday, September 20th. On this day, millions of people will walk out of our workplaces and homes to join young climate strikers on the streets and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels.

B Corps have also formed the B Corp Climate Collective, a working group centered on learning & research, resource sharing, and collective action around the climate emergency.

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Local Actions on the Climate Emergency - Portland Climate Strike & Festival

In Portland, youth have been hard at work organizing local climate actions. They are looking to Portland to show up in a major way. They’re calling on us to help by showing up this Friday, September 20, by supporting the Portland climate strike, march & festival. It all starts at 10:30am at City Hall, and then everyone will march to OMSI together, to have a festival focused on resolution, solutions, engaging with organizations that can help and connecting with other like-minded people who care. Learn more at https://climatestrikeoregon.org/.

The festival is an especially great opportunity for B Corps to show up and discuss how triple bottom line business is a huge part of the global solution. This is a grassroots movement and there are a variety of ways you and/or your company can help. Be a part of this monumental, youth-led, environmental movement!

How can you take action and help with Portland's youth-led Climate Strike?

Donate to & share the gofundme
RSVP & share the Facebook page
RSVP on the Action Network page
Check out & share the website, where you can find out more and register your own events throughout the week across Oregon.
Show up to be a sponsor at the festival. Current B Corps showing up for the Portland festival include Brew Dr. Kombucha, Patagonia, Guayaki Yerba Mate and Nossa Familia Coffee.
Get creative and contribute whatever you can to promote visibility for climate action, whether it’s ad space, a sign in the window, social media post—whatever! For example, Grapevine Outdoor (an aspiring B Corp and outdoor advertising company behind the B Corp Pop-Up Store at the Lloyd Center) has donated available billboard space to promote the climate strike.

For questions & to learn how you can get involved, contact: Chris Palmer, chris@350pdx.org, 971-712-4152 or Abe Tannenbaum, abe@grapevineoutdoor.com, 503-333-5957.

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National & Global Climate Action: B Corps Form the B Corp Climate Collective

B Corps have also formed the B Corp Climate Collective, a working group centered on collective action around the climate emergency. The group, which formed earlier this year, has formed working groups to compile resources and toolkits for B Corp companies to track their carbon emissions and target net zero emissions, research more sustainable packaging, advocate for climate-focused policy change, and even look into changing the B Impact Assessment to set a higher bar for Certified B Corporations when it comes to action on the climate emergency. Here's how B Corps can get involved with the B Corp Climate Collective:

Email climate@bcorporation.net to express interest
Take the B Corp Global Climate Action Survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/BCorpClimateSurvey
Join, follow, and engage with the group on the B Hive
Join the Ceres BICEP Network for climate advocacy
Sign up for updates on the SDG Action Manager, launching in January 2020, to track your performance on the climate-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Check out B Lab’s resources: the Climate Emergency Playbook (How to Declare a Climate Emergency) and How Businesses are Addressing Climate Change
Support Global Climate Movement efforts. Learn more about how to get involved and take action with the B Corp Climate Strike Mobilization Toolkit. Show your support with this social media image toolkit (courtesy of B Lab Canada and Manoverboard)

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