Stand.earth

Extreme Oil: to keep some of the world’s dirtiest, most volatile, and health-threatening oil out of our communities, off our waterways and rail lines, and in the ground, while planning a just transition to a clean energy economy.

Healthy Forests: to legislate and implement ecosystem-based management forest protection agreements in the Canadian Boreal Forest; and catalyze breakthroughs in purchasing policies of branded companies to reduce purchasing of unsustainably-harvested forest products.

Dirty Ships: to reduce the climate and marine impacts of the global shipping industry and achieve zero air emissions by 2050 – with a key milestone being a ban on use of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic.

Filthy Fashion: to protect the climate by persuading apparel companies (beginning with denim) to reduce climate pollution in their supply chains.

In all of our campaigns—whether we’re fighting the logging industry or Big Oil or trying to transform the coffee cup—we are engaging in David vs. Goliath battles that seem impossible given our limited resources of time, people, and money. We fight these battles with optimism, by identifying points of leverage (e.g. power of people, power of marketplace, power of media) and by forming strategic alliances with grassroots groups and environmental allies. Time and again, across campaigns, one lessons keeps holding true: when we stand together, we win.

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As a result of Stand’s pioneering market base/supply chain strategy, we have transformed the purchasing practices of some of the biggest buyers of forest products including Staples, Office Depot, major players in the catalog industry like Limited Brands and Williams-Sonoma, and lumber giants Lowe’s and Home Depot. Our ability to transform adversaries into allies and collaborate with industries, local communities, and governments has catalyzed agreements to protect more than 65 million acres in Chile, Ontario’s Boreal forest, British Columbia’s Inland Temperate Rainforest, and the Great Bear Rainforest.

Since our founding, we began to replicate our successful strategies in the energy sector given the emergence of another threat to forests, and more broadly, to our climate: Alberta’s Tar Sands. Recently, we expanded our focus to address two industries with critical blind spots in their commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: shipping and fashion.

• Our #BetterCup campaign forged a coalition that persuaded Starbucks to commit $10 million to satisfy our campaign’s demand that they shift to a fully recyclable cup. Months later, McDonald’s followed suit with a $5 million commitment to help solve this problem of single-use coffee cups.

• Our #FilthyFashion campaign succeeded in getting a “meet or beat” commitment from one of the biggest brands in the world: Levi’s. This is one of the most important developments in the history of this industry and a 180-degree shift by Levi’s. They have committed to a 90% reduction of GHGs by 2025 in owned facilities, and a 40% reduction of GHGs by 2025 in their entire supply chain.

• In partnership with First Nations allies, we catalyzed one of the most recent movements around fossil fuels: the fight to stop the Kinder Morgan Pipeline. After years of organizing, the Federal Court of Appeal overturned federal permits for the project, delaying construction for the foreseeable future.