We had the pleasure of talking MotherTree founder, Dan Sherrard-Smith, in our first Action Leaders interview of 2024.
Thought leaders help us see how life can be, action leaders put it into action. Dan’s work shines a light on the power in our purse – how every penny of our income, savings and investments is a vote and an act for climate and social justice.
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We’re very happy to publish our impact data for 2022. It’s a little later in the year than usual, however the insights and data points are useful today.
We survey those who make a pledge and we have the following insights to share:
As we grasp our way through more extreme weather events, it’s not surprising that more and more people want their 9-5 to tackle the climate crisis.
Climate upskilling is a hot topic in climate and ESG circles at the moment. If you’re in them you may have heard ‘every job is a climate job’ just a few hundred times this year.
But what does it mean in reality?
Continue readingScotland’s Climate Week is set to run at the end of September 2023, and it makes for a great time for organisations to mobilise their employees around meaningful climate action.
At Do Nation, we believe that employee engagement in climate should be happening all year round. However, we also recognise that climate weeks provide a great opportunity for organisations to launch and promote their Net Zero ambitions and strategy, amongst both their employees and public stakeholders.
With this context in mind, we’ve created a bespoke, easy to use package of support for Scotland’s Climate Week, designed especially for organisations based in Scotland this September.
We’ve got history in Scotland – with Audit Scotland and Scottish Government amongst the first of our customers way back in 2012, and more recently organisations such as Scottish Parliament, SSE, and Ooni using Do Nation to engage their people in climate action.
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When we launched Do Nation as an employee action tool, all programmes and pledges on Plus and Pro tiers were public.
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Much to our relief, there is less climate change denial than we had a few years ago.
Between 2011 to 2021 in right-leaning newspapers, the ratio of editorials arguing for less climate action to those calling for more has gone from 1:9 to 5:1. Let’s be clear, the environment needs more than dialogue, it needs urgent action. But, considering the power of the media to shape conversations and help people form opinion – it’s a start.
While awareness and dialogue help galvanise meaningful action, it can also affect our minds. From an individual perspective, it can feel a little like a constant torrent of negative news about the future of our planet. Depending on your pre-existing values and context, this can lead to climate anxiety, which can be debilitating.
Continue readingYour guide to small actions that can make a big difference for World Environment Day.
World Environment Day is on the 5th of June, with this year’s theme set as ‘solutions to plastic pollution’.
Let’s be honest. Unless you’re living an incredible niche life, avoiding plastic is almost impossible. Most of us would love to reduce the amount of plastic we use – it’s made (from fossil fuels) in a manner that pollutes the atmosphere, and also often ends up polluting our rivers, oceans and land.
Fully recognising how hard it is, we’ve put together this plan with practical tips for any level of proficiency, to help further wean you off plastic.
Ditching single-use plastic alone isn’t going to stop the climate crisis, but removing unnecessary plastic from day to day life can:
To mark this B Corp month this March, 12 UK B Corporations showed the world how they Go Beyond by joining Do Nations B Corp month challenge. This was a dedicated offer for B Corps to run a climate employee engagement programme on the Do Nation platform.
It is one of several ways that B Corps chose to honour and raise awareness about their commitment to balancing people, profit and purpose. Do Nation’s platform provides suggestions of simple, personal actions that individuals can take to reduce their carbon footprint and climate shadow. It uses teams to create friendly competition while illustrating how the impact of our actions can add up, when taken together within others in the community. All B Corp employees can view their individual impact, their B Corp’s impact, and how that contributes to the total B Corp community impact.
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To mark this B Corp month this March, a group of B Corporations are embarking on a Do Nation employee engagement programme. For them, this is one way to reflect on why and how B Corps balance profit with purpose.
Participating B Corps will run their programmes within their organisations, while also contributing, alongside other B Corps, to the Do Nation2023 B Corp challenge which connects and measures environmental impact across the Global B Corp Community and the UK.
Do Nation programmes can be run at any time of the year, but the decision to begin one now is a poignant reminder of what distinguishes B Corp from other organisations.
Balancing people, planet and profit means that organisations need to be proactive about their organisational impact on the environment, beyond surface initiatives.
Companies including Leap, DiSRUPT Agency, Articulate Marketing, Standing on Giants, x+why, Micro scooters, Kyero, Vita Coco, English Tea Shop, Centrus advisors and Pukka Herbs have all signed up to Do Nations annual B Corp Challenge.
As a B Corp itself, the Do Nation challenge includes a bespoke package of support and resources for organisations to run successful employee engagement programmes.
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