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 taking 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.

Learn more about local, national and global actions, as well as more about the B Corp Climate Collective.

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 get involved, contact: Chris Palmer, chris@350pdx.org, 971-712-4152

or Abe Tannenbaum, abe@grapevineoutdoor.com, 503-333-5957.

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, is putting together resources and toolkits for B Corp companies to track their carbon emissions and target net zero emissions, researching more sustainable packaging, and even looking into changing the B Impact Assessment to set a higher bar for Certified B Corporations when it comes to action on the climate emergency. B Corps can get involved by: