How to make your company go all in on climate with Bill Weihl

Crowdsourcing Sustainability

In this interview with Bill Weihl we discuss how to “mobilize the voice of the workforce to urge companies to go “all in” on climate, both in business practices and policy advocacy.”
Bill was in charge of sustainability at Google and Facebook starting back in 2006. He recently founded ClimateVoice to help employees everywhere exercise their power for corporate climate action.
Useful links from ClimateVoice:
https://climatevoice.org/
https://climatevoice.org/resources/
https://1in5for1point5.org/#sign
https://twitter.com/ClimateVoiceOrg
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1. Intro & Bill's climate journey (00:00:00)

2. Answering the "What can I do?" question & why we need companies to use their influence for strong climate policies (00:05:32)

3. Employees have the power to push companies to speak up on public policy. There is recent precedent with LGBTQ rights (00:18:45)

4. Who are the most obstructive trade associations? (00:20:30)

5. Fossil fuel lobby outspending climate action groups 10 to 1 (00:23:20)

6. Other ways companies can influence public policy (00:24:50)

7. The big 5 in tech need to step up & what we want companies to say (00:27:26)

8. Corporate hypocrisy and complicity vs. what they can do instead (00:31:30)

9. What can employees do? Advice for starting to having these conversations and begin organizing internally (00:35:40)

10. The constructive case employees can make for climate action (00:42:28)

11. What does ClimateVoice do with signatures and how do you help employees? (00:46:10)

12. A very small amount of employees can make a big difference (00:50:00)

13. Bill's call to action (00:59:15)

14. Outro (01:02:24)