The 1989 Exxon-Valdez oil spill, which devastated Alaska's Prince William Sound with 10.8 million gallons of oil, severely shook public confidence in corporate America.

This disaster

The 1989 Exxon-Valdez oil spill, which devastated Alaska's Prince William Sound with 10.8 million gallons of oil, severely shook public confidence in corporate America.

This disaster painfully exposed the environmental cost of business and highlighted companies' insufficient accountability for their operations' social and environmental impacts.

Just six months later, a group of investors launched Ceres, a nonprofit dedicated to tackling these critical issues. For more, visit the Ceres YouTube Channel.

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Successful leadership is about bringing different sectors together and translating your expertise into clear actions. Dr. Gabriel Okello is a CISL Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellow. This

Successful leadership is about bringing different sectors together and translating your expertise into clear actions. Dr. Gabriel Okello is a CISL Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellow. This is his experience from leading clean-air initiatives in Uganda. @okellogab256 @CISL_Cambridge #CISLImpactStories ***** We asked members of the CISL Network to share their stories of personal leadership and positive impact. Their stories span industries, continents, and cross-cutting themes from across the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. CISL develops leadership and solutions for a sustainable economy. For people, climate, and nature. Find out more at www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/impact-stories

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Led by Prince of Wales Fellow Caroline Lee and Dr Catherine Hammant, this webinar gives a taster of their research exploring supermarkets’ potential to leverage their resources and unique position

Led by Prince of Wales Fellow Caroline Lee and Dr Catherine Hammant, this webinar gives a taster of their research exploring supermarkets’ potential to leverage their resources and unique position in local communities to improve wellbeing. They discuss the stages of their work, highlighting the nature of existing social-purpose programmes, the route to impact and potential for greater effectiveness in actions and activities which support communities within local operating contexts. Find out more here: https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/blog/could-supermarkets-be-the-new-superheroes-to-help-build-community-resilience

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A new type of leadership is emerging. It is one that requires a different approach to navigating the critical and complex leadership challenges of our time that often do not have readily available or

A new type of leadership is emerging. It is one that requires a different approach to navigating the critical and complex leadership challenges of our time that often do not have readily available or elegant solutions. Such wicked problems are not only complex but multi-faceted, dynamic, unbounded, contested and cannot be solved without employing a systems thinking mind set. Join experts from CISL’s global flagship HRH Prince of Wales’s Business and Sustainability Programme Global Steering Committee, to explore how they engage senior leaders in letting go of the search for easy answers to tackle the most fundamental and messy challenges that we face.

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Join us on November 19 at 6 pm for the Commonwealth Club’s Virtual Gala. Raise your glass to Good Health, as we celebrate the leadership of women in science and medicine. Text Club2021 to 41444 or

Join us on November 19 at 6 pm for the Commonwealth Club’s Virtual Gala. Raise your glass to Good Health, as we celebrate the leadership of women in science and medicine. Text Club2021 to 41444 or visit commonwealthclub.org/2021gala to register and donate today! Violence against Black people—both physical and psychological—has seemed only to increase in recent years, culminating in the historic pandemic and protests in the summer of 2020. “After centuries of waiting for white majorities to overturn white supremacy,” Charles Blow writes, “ it seems to me that it has fallen to Black people to do it themselves.” A New York Times op-ed columnist, Blow felt compelled to write a new story for Black Americans, one that involves a succinct, counterintuitive and impassioned correction to the myths that have for too long governed our thinking about race and geography in America. The Devil You Know is a grand exhortation to generations of a people, proposing nothing short of the most audacious power play by Black people in the history of this country. Join us as Charles Blow offers a road map to true and lasting freedom. NOTES Part of our Good Lit series, underwritten by The Bernard Osher Foundation. Photo by Beowulf Sheehan. OCTOBER 19, 2021 SPEAKERS Charles Blow Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Author, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto; Twitter @CharlesMBlow In Conversation with Melissa Murray Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Co-host, "Strict Scrutiny" Podcast; Twitter @ProfMMurray 💯SUBSCRIBE for more VIDEOS: https://www.youtube.com/user/commonwealthclub 📆 UPCOMING EVENTS: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events 🎉 BECOME a MEMBER: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/membership 💰 DONATE NOW: https://support.commonwealthclub.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=298 📺➕📻 Watch & Listen https://www.commonwealthclub.org/watch-listen CWC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecommonwealthclub/ CWC Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cwclub/ CWC Twitter https://twitter.com/cwclub The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum 📣, bringing together its 20,000 members for more than 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy. Founded in 1903 in San Francisco California 🌉, The Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Hillary Clinton in 2010. Along the way, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton have all given landmark speeches at the Club.

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