United States
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Fashion and consumption
Tags Share With fast fashion’s status as the second most polluting industry (second only to the oil industry) and its 2.1 billion tons of annual carbon emissions making up at least 4% of the world’s total, the environmental impact our clothes have on the planet can’t be overlooked. While efforts to move towards sustainability have…
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Arctic
Tags Share Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at three times the global average, resulting in drastic impacts on local communities, especially indigenous groups. Rising sea levels, extreme temperature events, and depletion of natural resources have resulted in a human rights crisis. The Arctic Council, comprised of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and…
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Climate change
Tags Share Human-caused climate change is impacting communities all around the world, resulting in devastating effects such as intense heat waves, wildfires, worsening storms and flooding, and glacial melt. Certain communities such as children, older adults, communities of color, and low-income communities are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change. For example, many organizations…
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Coral reefs
Tags Share A key aspect of the Speak Truth To Power program is the central idea of human rights defenders. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals also embraces this idea of the impact of the individual person. Of course, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are meant to be achieved by Member States as a whole by…
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Solar panels
Tags Share To avert the worst effects of climate change, consensus among scientists and policymakers is to limit the long‐term increase in average global temperatures to 1.5 °C, which in turn entails reducing global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to net zero by 2050. Ending reliance on fossil fuels and investing in renewable sources of energy…
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Standing Rock
Tags Share In June 2014, the Dakota Access Pipeline project—an underground pipeline that would transport crude oil from fields in North Dakota to a terminal near Patoka, Illinois—was announced to the public. Construction of the pipeline, which would run close to important cultural and burial sites on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, prompted a series…
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How Cash Bail Hurts Our Communities
Indefinite jailing based on what’s in your bank account is unfair, cruel, and does not make our communities safer.
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How Cash Bail Robs People of Their Dignity and Resources
A new educational video shows how cash bail punishes the poor long before their day in court.
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Three Ways to Support LGBTQ+ Students
Tags Share As more and more anti-LGBTQ+ legislation crops up around the country, here are three ways we can all support and empower our trans students. You may also want to read this article about a new poll showing Americans are overwhelmingly against anti-transgender laws. By Ei Meeker, English and health education teacher, Brooklyn, N.Y.…
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How to Embrace a Data-Driven Shift Toward ESG
Tags Share If you weren’t able to make it to our spring investor summit, which was held March 16-17, 2021, or you missed some of the sessions, you can catch up here by reading about the most critical takeaways. ABOUT COMPASS LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SUMMIT SUMMIT RECORDINGS SUMMIT PROGRAM BOOK CONTACT OUR TEAM
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RFK Human Rights Urges Wendy’s to Protect Farmworkers
Companies must now take action to back up their pledges of social responsibility.
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RFK Human Rights Statement on Protecting Voting Rights
Tags Share In Georgia this week, lawmakers pushed through a plan to place significant barriers in front of a core right in our democracy. Yet, this is far from an isolated incident—zealots in state legislatures around the country, still stinging from November losses, are moving aggressively to restrict our freedom to vote in 43 states.…
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