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Council Fire’s Commitment to Change in 2024
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Council Fire’s Commitment to Change in 2024

Council Fire takes its own impact as seriously as we do our clients’. Change requires effort, time, resilience and renewed momentum. Our team spends each day helping clients achieve their sustainability goals. We also spend those same days driving positive environmental, social, and economic impact through our own business practices. In 2024, we’ll continue to build upon our work from last year and every year since our founding with three primary focus areas.

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Sustainability Expertise, Equity & Storytelling Drive Systemic Change
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Sustainability Expertise, Equity & Storytelling Drive Systemic Change

Finding sustainable solutions in today's challenging world requires a combination of multi-faceted expertise, deep and inclusive collaboration, and inspiring communications. In 2009, George Chmael II launched the sustainability-focused consultancy Council Fire with the idea of meeting these requirements by bringing all facets of sustainability together in one place and drawing upon the lessons of history and ancient wisdom to drive modern results.

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DEIJ Expert Gabrielle Roffe Joins the Council Fire Team
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DEIJ Expert Gabrielle Roffe Joins the Council Fire Team

As a purpose-driven company committed to equity in every aspect of our business – Council Fire is delighted to welcome diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) expert, Gabrielle Roffe, as a Project Manager to the team.

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B Corps Collaborate to Share Tom Lovejoy’s Return to the Amazon

B Corps Collaborate to Share Tom Lovejoy’s Return to the Amazon

A few years back at a Certified B Corporation Champions Retreat, my good friend George Chmael II, who is CEO of the global sustainability consultancy and B Corp Council Fire, piped up: “Greg, let’s join forces again to do a documentary film about Tom Lovejoy!” “Sure!” was my response. “Who’s Tom Lovejoy?”

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Finding Purpose through the Future Leaders Program
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Finding Purpose through the Future Leaders Program

Our first Future Leaders Program (FLP) member, Jacob Rosenzweig-Stein, is shining brightly. Council Fire is proud to see Jacob’s matriculation from an intern to a research analyst in our inaugural FLP cohort.

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Council Fire Welcomes Fisheries and Oceans Expert, Jill Tapley Stevenson
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Council Fire Welcomes Fisheries and Oceans Expert, Jill Tapley Stevenson

As part of its mission to employ the industry’s brightest minds, Council Fire is thrilled to welcome Jill Tapley Stevenson to its team of consultants to provide expertise in ocean conservation and biodiversity, climate change, fisheries, stakeholder engagement, and natural resources management.

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Local Investment Strategy #2: The People You Love
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Local Investment Strategy #2: The People You Love

Last week I talked about how investing in yourself by paying off your credit cards was the single best local investment opportunity. It’s risk free, generates a 15-20% annual return, and ultimately saves you from Debtors’ Hell. This week I want to suggest that you do the same for the people you care about. Invest in your kids and friends by cutting up their credit cards as well. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander and all the other people who flock around you.

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A Call to Redefine Profit
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A Call to Redefine Profit

20 years ago, Council Fire was born out of a vision of organizations melding pursuit of financial profit with a purposeful drive to improve the lives of others and restore our environment. Convinced that unconceived alliances were needed and future successes would be measured against multiple bottom lines, this new kind of global change agency emerged. One of the founding members of the B-Corp movement, Council Fire remains at the forefront of this new approach to building long-term value for local, regional, national, and global communities.

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Showing Up For Racial Justice
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Showing Up For Racial Justice

As 2020 starkly revealed, today’s world is one of complexities, inequities, and deep structural challenges. Political extremism, economic instability, growing wealth inequality, and severe climate change impacts are all compounding factors, but increasingly the world is understanding that racism sits at the center of virtually all of these issues. Regardless of what you most care about - climate change, public health, education, human rights - without progress on racial justice, we cannot progress on any other front.

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Council Fire’s Carbon Footprint Reduction and Offsets
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Council Fire’s Carbon Footprint Reduction and Offsets

As a purpose-driven social enterprise, Council Fire is simultaneously focused on changing behavior and producing results for our clients at the organizational level and at scale. But we know that embodying the ideas we help our clients reach for is the best way to forge a path to the future. As part of our commitment to sustainability and carbon neutrality, we are continuously working to reduce our carbon footprint.

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B Corps Partnering to Address Climate Change Impacts
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B Corps Partnering to Address Climate Change Impacts

Over the past several years, the near and long-term impacts of climate change have come into sharp focus and it is clear that no business sector will be spared the negative consequences. This reality is front and center for Council Fire and the B Corp community as a whole as we work to build sustainable and equitable economic, environmental and social systems in the face of a rapidly changing climate.

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A Message From Our Founder
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A Message From Our Founder

20 years ago, Council Fire was born out of a vision of organizations melding pursuit of financial profit with a purposeful drive to improve the lives of others and restore our environment. Convinced that unconceived alliances were needed and future successes would be measured against multiple bottom lines, this new kind of global change agency emerged.

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