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Although our work is generally focused in the United States, we are beginning to have opportunities to bring our expertise in communicating about energy to clients working in other parts of the world. One of the first such clients is Greenwood Energy , a part of The Libra Group , and a partner firm to our client Greenwood Sustainable Infrastructure (GSI). [To learn more about GSI, read our Common Sense Colloquy Q&A with their CEO, Mazen Turk, from earlier this year here .] G

With so much happening in the energy and environment communities this year, it can be challenging to determine what to focus on for this monthly series of interviews. One topic of particular interest to many of our audiences is sustainability and corporate responsibility. I’ve been encouraged to see the importance of these issues increase over the past few decades to the point where they are now front and center in the national conversation and key drivers of business and pol

With a name like RENEW PR , we are often viewed as a renewable energy-only PR firm. We aren’t, but renewables and sustainability are an important part of our work and a key area of interest and focus (particularly since we’ve worked on numerous wind and solar campaigns and client projects). So we were thrilled when our friends at The Libra Group re-introduced us to Greenwood Sustainable Infrastructure (GSI), a company we had worked with previously. GSI is led by Chief Execu

Equity is one of the three areas of focus for RENEW PR (along with energy and environment). We define the term as meaning that “everyone has the opportunities, resources and support they need to participate fully in society.” For us, that seems like common sense – and it is, or it should be. Equity is often considered along with diversity, inclusion and other concepts as part of a broader conversation about the actions necessary to ensure full engagement of everyone in socie

Every Pride Month of the past few years has felt unlike any other in recent memory. With so much happening so fast, and attacks and assaults on LGBTQ people ramping up in the courts, in statehouses and on the streets, it makes sense that many of us are tired, depressed, fearful, and fed-up. Fortunately, there are many LGBTQ people and allies working to push back and make the world a better place for all of us. One such group of LGBTQ people and allies is PFLAG National . Fou

These are tough times. With so much hate, division and fear in our society and the continued impacts of the health, racial justice and economic pandemics affecting many of us, it can be hard to find or feel joy. So, what better time to ask our friend Patrice Tanaka to participate in the Common Sense Colloquy ? Patrice is the Founder & Chief Joy Officer of Joyful Planet, LLC , a “ Business & Life Strategy Consultancy” to help individuals and organizations discover and activel

The role of institutional investors in climate change mitigation is not always well understood, despite a great deal of attention being paid to the impact of such investments in driving business changes designed to help address the global threat of a changing climate. At the same time, diversity, equity and inclusion decisions are increasingly important to investment considerations and are now contemplated in concert with climate and related topics. Fortunately, we have a fri

Substantively and effectively addressing climate change is a multi-layered challenge. We need to reduce and eventually eliminate emissions (which technologies such as carbon capture, utilization and storage will help with), and we need to remove existing or legacy emissions as well (which technologies such as carbon removal will help with). In this series, we’re trying to address climate change and other important topics in as many ways as possible. This month, we’re focusing

The Common Sense Colloquy requires a good deal of effort, but the opportunity to share the insight and perspective of the smart people we work and collaborate with is worth it. In this, the third post in our Year Four in Review series, we share my favorite comments from our twelve participants over the past year. In addition to being smart and insightful, the comments below share a few things in common: they address the value of authenticity, the importance of equity and the

Every year at this time for the past three years, we have highlighted the best of the best from our Common Sense Colloquy series: key advice and perspective on communications from a diverse group of energy, environmental and LGBTQ leaders who participated in our monthly Q&A series. In this, the second post in our three-part series marking the end of the fourth year of the Common Sense Colloquy, we’re sharing insight from twelve influential communications and advocacy leaders

Four years ago, I had an idea for a series of Q&As with interesting energy and environment leaders. In February 2018, I posted the first of what I hoped would be an ongoing series of useful conversations sharing insight on common sense conversations. Our client Marcene Mitchell set a high bar with that first interview and every person since then has demonstrated that this wasn’t just a good idea, it was an insightful one. The nearly fifty conversations we’ve had since that

Energy policy is now also climate policy. Decisions about what types of energy sources to build for the future are now inextricably linked with their impact on the planet. As this connection has become ever more obvious, interest in nuclear energy has grown. But challenges remain, to be sure. This month’s Q&A subject is Jessica Lovering , co-founder of Good Energy Collective (GEC). Jessica stepped into that breach to build the “ progressive case for nuclear energy as an e

Climate change touches everyone, everywhere. As we saw with extreme weather events last year that were likely influenced by a changing climate, the conversation about our warming planet is no longer theoretical or future-based. Climate change is now. Increasingly, the conversation about it is now as well. And groups like E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs) are one reason for this dialogue. E2 is a national, nonpartisan organization of more than 11,000 business leaders across th

As a founding member of The Change Agencies , the first (and only) national network of independently owned and operated multicultural and LGBTQ PR firms, I am always interested in learning about new initiatives to increase diversity and representation in our industry. In November, I participated in the first-ever Native American PR roundtable event sponsored by the Museum of Public Relations . During this event, I was delighted to learn about the launch of the Indigenous Peo

Climate change doesn’t recognize borders. While most of our work centers on the U.S., we understand the importance of hemispheric and global communications on issues like energy and environment. So, I was thrilled when a former colleague contacted me this summer to ask for RENEW PR ’s help with the release of a report on the future of clean energy in Mexico. I jumped at the chance and had the opportunity to bring new RENEW PR Team Member Jessica Lass into the conversation fr

National Parks have been part of my life for almost as long as I can remember. I was born in DC and lived within a mile of Rock Creek National Park for most of my childhood. I spent summers visiting National Parks with my family and some of my fondest memories are of hiking the Grand Canyon National Park and Rocky Mountain National Park . Indeed, my passion for nature and the environment is part of the reason I’ve focused my career on climate and related communications effor

As part of this ongoing monthly series , we’ve interviewed clients, colleagues and friends who boast a number of superlatives. This month, we’re adding another one: the first female head of the United States Energy Association (USEA) in its 100 year history. Our client USEA’s Sheila Hollis is the acting executive director of USEA. She was the first woman to serve as President of the Energy Bar Association, and holds the distinction of being the only person to serve as both

Over the past six and one-half years, we’ve had the pleasure and privilege of working with a number of leading energy and environmental advocacy firms on topics as varied as renewable energy, energy efficiency, sustainable buildings and carbon capture. One of those groups is Clean Air Task Force . Clean Air Task Force (CATF) was selected as a top global climate organization by the Founders Pledge , has been called one of “ six of the most high-impact, cost-effective, evidence

One of the many careers I considered as a young child was landscape architecture. It just seemed cool and I thought it would be a lot of fun. But then, other career paths seemed more exciting, and I moved on. So it’s great fun for me now to have the opportunity to talk about landscape architecture again, but this time with the leader of the landscape architecture industry’s professional organization. Landscape architecture is relevant to health, infrastructure and environment

It’s June and that means it’s Pride Month once again. We’re continuing the tradition we started last year of focusing our June Common Sense Colloquy Q&A on an LGBTQ community leader. We’re thrilled to have the opportunity now to highlight a new leader in the advocacy community, Family Equality CEO Stacey Stevenson . Stacey joined Family Equality earlier this year from a career in corporate America, most recently at Charles Schwab and Co. At Schwab, Stacey served as National