kins in action for climate solutions & regenerative agriculture
Meet Alisa Gravitz, President and CEO of Green America, a not-for-profit, green economy organization founded in 1983 to advance marketplace solutions to society's most pressing social and environmental problems.
In addition to her influential work with Green America, Alisa assumed a leadership role serving several KINS Networks after Susan Davis Moora moved to Ecuador. Alisa currently hosts six KINS-inspired networks (see descriptions below) through the Center For Sustainability Solutions.
The Green America Center for Sustainability Solutions brings together diverse groups of stakeholders to solve the complex sustainability problems that no individual business, organization, or leader can solve alone. Their networks include:
CLEAN ELECTRONICS PRODUCTION NETWORK
2016 – present - Electronics Industry Leaders Advance Toward Zero Exposure to Workers Throughout the Supply Chain. GOAL: Move toward zero exposure of workers to toxic chemicals in the electronics manufacturing process.
At the beginning of 2021, the Regenerative Supply Working Group and the Carbon Farming Innovation Network formally merged to become the Soil & Climate Alliance. The Alliance brings together representatives of the entire agriculture supply chain to work together over the long term for real impact.
We focus on marketplace strategies to rapidly accelerate agricultural system solutions for soil, climate, water, farm economics and food security.
REGIONAL REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
We are a group of farmers, small businesses, and consumer brands working together to get 5 million more acres of small grains grown in rotation in the Upper Midwest by 2021.
Climate Safe Lending (CSL) is a network of diverse bank stakeholders from across North America and Europe who are collaborating to transform the global bank lending system to align with the goal of staying well below 2°C global temperature increase by 2025.
The Soil Carbon Initiative (SCI)— created by The Carbon Underground, Green America, Danone North America, Ben & Jerry’s, MegaFood, and over 150 other stakeholders—is a verifiable outcomes-based standard that measures improvements in soil health and carbon sequestration.
SCI gives companies third-party verification of climate action and impact. In addition, the Soil Carbon Index gives companies a tool to motivate soil health improvement in their supply chains.
Healthier soil means fewer agrochemicals, improved ecosystem impacts, better weather resilience and better farm economics: all important for mitigating the risks inherent in agricultural supply chains.
Launched in 2002 and still operating today, Solar Circle has catalyzed the U.S. solar industry from a small, highly fragmented market producing less than 1,000 MW to a powerful industry that’s now forecasted to account for 50% of U.S. production by 2030, 20 years ahead of schedule. Over twenty different constituencies in the solar value chain have come together including manufacturers, installers, designers, consumer advocates, technical experts, and policy leaders.