Environmental Social Justice

Diamond Spratling is the founder of Girl + Environment, a national non-profit organization designed to bring awareness to and solutions for dismantling environmental racism Today she shares her insight and experiences from attending COP27, and how it needs to change. 𝑵𝒐 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑵𝒐 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒔 @GirlPlusEnvironment #EnvironmentalJustice #SocialJustice #Impact #NonProfit #clim...

Heather White is the author of One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet and founder of OneGreenThing.org. Her two decades of leadership and experience include serving as a presidential campaign staffer for Al Gore, the environmental counsel to a US senator, and the executive director of three national environmental nonprofits. She has been featured on Good Morning Americ...

Debbie Levin is considered one of the most influential people in the environmental movement and entertainment industry. Since taking over EMA in 2000, she has been singular in harnessing the power of the media and entertainment communities to pioneer social activism, storytelling and driving awareness into action and solutions.  Under Levin’s leadership, EMA has been responsible for some of t...

I had the pleasure of interviewing my dear friend, Farouk El-Baz, an Egyptian Geologist who has an extensive background of being one of NASA’s first hires, to having a transporter named after him on Star Trek: TNG and being featured in the TV Series “From the Earth to the Moon” by Tom Hanks. To list all of Farouk’s accomplishments would be nearly impossible 𝑵𝒐 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑵𝒐 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆...

Lauren Packard is a Sr. Policy Analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where she helps equip leaders worldwide to leverage technological innovation to address climate change and other societal issues. Previously, she worked as an environmental attorney at a non-profit and the California Department of Justice. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a J.D. from Columbia Law Scho...

Steven M. Rothstein is the founding Managing Director of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets. Ceres Accelerator aims to transform the practices and policies that govern capital markets in order to accelerate reduction of the worst financial impacts of the climate crisis and other sustainability threats. Steven’s 40 years of experience will be critical to explore the most effectiv...

Gunnlaugur Erlendsson is the Founder and CEO of ENSO, the only Certified B Corporation tire company in the world, that is also developing better tires for electric vehicles (EVs) to extend EV range and reduce tire pollution, which is a major source of air and micro-plastic pollution. 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘎 𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. 𝑵𝒐 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑵𝒐 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕 𝑯𝒆...

Are ethics dead in politics? Dave Johnson, a Stanford Law Professor, attorney and lecturer on society, politics, and the environment returns to ESJ to share his insight into what’s happening in elections, politics and the social media overlap. 𝑵𝒐 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑵𝒐 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒔™ #Ethics #Politics #Equality #Equity #Racism #SocialJustice #Impact #StanfordUniversty #EnvironmentalSocia...

There have been numerous conversations that the United States will never adopt a lifestyle without automobiles. We disagree. Thomas Riebs is a transportation expert who serves European companies in their engagement with the U.S. market, where he advises on Strategy, Execution of Strategy, and Matchmaking to Moneymaking. From a base in Los Angeles, where he leads the advisory firm AXEL, he is focus...

The Hard Market is an anonymous insurance humor Instagram account that also pulls the veil back on Pay Gaps, Social Injustice and Inequity in the Insurance industry. 𝑵𝒐 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑵𝒐 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒔™ #TheHardMarket #SocialJustice #Equity #PayGap #Women #PeopleofColor #Insurance  @EnvironmentalSocialJustice

Christine Marez is the Vice President for Energy and Sustainability for Cumming overseeing the global delivery of sustainability services for projects in education, commercial, and industrial projects. She is an electrical engineer and a LEED Accredited Professional (AP), Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV SP), and a Certified Inspector General (CIG) with extensive experience developing and...

Dr. Sharona Nazarian, is a Councilwoman for the City of Beverly Hills, a LA County Commissioner for Alcohol and Other Drugs, a mother and a advocate. She fled Iran as a child and moved to California where she overcame the obstacles of establishing a new life in a foreign country and pursued her education in psychology and sociology at USC and ultimately received her Doctorate in Clinical Psycholog...

Other Lives Studio is a concept hatched by friends and co-creators Betsy Flores and Kim Krempien. Having worked in fashion around the world, they grew frustrated with the quickening pace of the fashion cycle and the toll their beloved industry was taking on the environment. The two resolved to use their industry design experience to tackle the problem and came together to inspire a new cycle for f...

Rex Frazier is the President of the Personal Insurance Federation of California (PIFC), a Sacramento-based association of the leading property and casualty insurance companies on issues of homeowners, automobile, earthquake, and flood insurance in California. As President, Rex represents PIFC’s member companies before the California State government and provides advice on legislative, regulatory,...

Ben Stapleton is the Executive Director of the United States Green Building Council of Los Angeles (USGBC-LA). He is a recognized sustainability leader who focuses on building teams and designing programs that are based on coordinating ecosystems that leverage the built environment to help create a more sustainable society for all In his time at USGBC-LA, he has strengthened the foundation of this...

Tucker Perkins is president and CEO of the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC). He has worked in the propane industry for more than 26 years, having served as director of business development for Inergy, CEO of Premier Propane, and COO of Columbia Propane, a unit of the Columbia Energy Group. He firmly believes that climate change is real and man-made and is working on incorporating re...

Alex Bernhardt, Global Head of Sustainability Research, is a noted expert in sustainable finance. In his role, Alex is responsible for ESG research and integration across BNP Paribas Asset Management and plays an important role in driving the firm’s overall sustainability research agenda, thought leadership and thematic fund development. In our discussion on Trends in Sustainable Investment, we di...

Elena Maksimovich founded Weather Trade Net, with the specific focus of forward-looking climate data. Her team of Data Scientists and experts are working on transforming scientific climate knowledge into strategic investment signals. They ask the hard questions to bring asset managers their greatest returns WHERE in my portfolio do I have the physical climate risk? Which assets are exposed? WHAT t...

Dave Johnson, a Stanford Law Professor, attorney and lecturer on society, politics, and the environment returns to ESJ to discuss a structural challenge to progress in environmental and sustainability: Obscene Corruption. The proof now surfacing of rampant corruption has rendered our political parties, our governmental institutions ( Articles 1, 2 and 3 ), unreliable and undemocratic. Systemic soc...

Troy Helming is a Unicorn Founder (with 6 company exits) and a modern-day industrialist. He’s an inventor (60+ patent claims), an elite athlete, an author (1 book + 100s of articles), and a clean energy executive. He’s founded companies that have generated more than $30 Billion of economic impact, and he serves on numerous boards. He's a longtime wellness practitioner & yogi. Troy’s latest end...

Olivia Igwe, stylist and enforcer of the underdog discusses Social Networking after Covid and how to embrace confidence by standing up for yourself. 𝑵𝒐 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑵𝒐 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒔™ #Podcast #DEI #Confidence #Networking #SocialJustice #Love #EnvironmentalSocialJustice #Interview

Blue State of Mind (bluestateofmind.store), was created by Jessica Vitale in honor of her mother who had been a fierce feminist and lifelong liberal. The online shop sells t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs and other items for everyone who has a “blue state” outlook, with 100% of profits supporting equal access to reproductive rights. She truly believes that if we turn our collective outrage into action,...

The time to register is now! Net Zero 2022 is 2 weeks away! Drew Shula, CEO of Verdical Group, shares some additional insights as to why he created the worlds largest Net Zero Conference and what we can expect in the near future. Net Zero, will be at the Los Angeles Convention Center on September 14+15, 2022 . There will be exceptional Keynote Speakers, An Expo Hall, A Welcoming Happy Hour, and A...

Chris is a serial entrepreneur who has founded over 13 companies, namely Bentley Marketing Plus, Mission Zero, the Good Energy Guild, Aspen Pet Products, which became the largest non-food pet supply company in the US, and the Pet Sustainability Coalition Through his world travels, he absorbed the cultures around him, but most importantly; witnessed the eco-destruction that was well underway across...

Founded by Michelle Adelman, Infinite Café is part of the Infinite Foods Group, that creates delicious, inspired and unexpected plant-based meals that bring you the food and flavours you love that are healthier and kinder to the planet. By choosing plant-forward food options, everyone – including traditional milk and meat lovers – can contribute to the sustainability of our food future and our pla...