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Cool Corporate Citizen Testimonials

“Cool Corporate Citizen is extremely well thought through and I highly recommend it to any company that wants to engage employees in a meaningful and powerful way on the issue of climate change. We ran a very successful Global Warming Cafe workshop that attracted 125 employees before we had to close out enrollment. Out of this workshop we formed 15 Low Carbon Diet EcoTeams to help our employees reduce their personal carbon footprint and then transfer this knowledge back to the company. Many of these EcoTeams have taken the program out into their communities.”
— Sarah Severn, Director, Corporate Responsibility Horizons, Nike


“We’ve always believed that we are more successful when we work together with our stakeholders towards common goals. Cool Corporate Citizen is a great opportunity to act on that belief holistically - through our own actions as a business, our employee volunteerism program and our outreach into the local community - all in an effort to raise awareness and change behavior related to greenhouse gas emissions.”
— Mike Dupee, Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters


“Cool Corporate Citizen is a well designed approach for accelerated learning and effective action around carbon reduction. It helps generate employee interest in wanting to learn and then translates this learning into behavior change and community engagement. It is a model that can be employed in any organization. It is a great resource for our business and we are proud to be a partner in disseminating it.”
— Joe Laur, Vice President, Education and Outreach Programs, Waste Management


“One of our major objectives as a company is to reduce our impact on global warming. Educating our people on how to change their behaviors contributing to this problem is one of our key strategies. With an educated workforce we then wish to reach out to our community and customers. Cool Corporate Citizen is the perfect tool to help us do this. The program is also a lot of fun.”
— Gregor Barnum, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, Seventh Generation


“Learning how to engage people around the issue of global warming and then helping them take action is critical to achieving the needed changes. Cool Corporate Citizen provides a framework and tools enabling organizations and communities to participate in effective action. I have introduced the materials to corporations, municipalities, non-profit groups and neighbors – all of whom are now drawing on this program.”
— Charles Holmes, Learning Strategies Group, Faculty of Business, Simon Fraser University

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Become Certified as A Cool Corporate Citizen Leader


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This is Empowerment Institute’s leadership certification with a focus on implementation of the Cool Corporate Citizen program. You will learn how to customize the program to the unique employee engagement and sustainability needs of the company, lead employee engagement workshops (Global Warming Café), train EcoTeam leaders in how to facilitate the Low Carbon Diet EcoTeam meetings, build internal capacity to lead EcoTeam leader trainings, and bring the program to the community, and provide on-going consultation as the program progresses. Click here for more information on the certification program. Empowerment Institute also provides the above Cool Corporate Citizen services directly to companies. To schedule an interview to learn more click here.

Purchase Low Carbon Diet Workbook


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Low Carbon Diet:
A 30 Day Program to Lose 5,000 Pounds

by David Gershon

The core tool of the Cool Corporate Citizen program.

Click here to purchase the book

Low Carbon Diet and the Cool Community


Socail Change 2.0Learn about the social change framework and research underpinning the Cool Corporate Citizen program in David Gershon’s award-winning book Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World. Chapter 11 of the book is a case study of the Low Carbon Diet behavior change program and Cool Community empowerment model on which the Cool Corporate Citizen program is based. This chapter has been excerpted as a six-part series in the Sustainable City Network listed below:

Part One: Low Carbon Diet and the Cool Community

Part Two: An Inconvenient Truth Finds a Convenient Solution

Part Three: Instead of Cursing the Dark, Light a Candle

Part Four: The Global Warming Café

Part Five: Taking a Cool Community to Scale

Part Six: The Cool City Challenge

Click here to purchase Social Change 2.0

Environmental Leader


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Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Social Engagement

Cool Corporate Citizen Testimonials


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“We’ve always believed that we are more successful when we work together with our stakeholders towards common goals. Cool Corporate Citizen is a great opportunity to act on that belief holistically - through our own actions as a business, our employee volunteerism program and our outreach into the local community - all in an effort to raise awareness and change behavior related to greenhouse gas emissions.”
– Mike Dupee, Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

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