I believe the most important thing you could do is a renewable energy initiative – perhaps in partnership with REN-21 (I have no relationship to them, but they seem like the right sort of group from what I’ve read of their stuff). The Forum’s Greenhouse Gas Registry is a nice start – but you only seem to have a handful of companies signed up to that so far. This could be a similar registry, but with a measurable set of goals for investment to quantify how well different companies and organizations are doing in this ergard.
A commitment to renewables investment (say, 10% of corporate energy expenditures as a standard) could make a huge difference.
Lest this is restating the obvious, we need large-scale renewables investment for three major reasons:
* The world seems to be running low on oil – evidenced by recent high prices, and the predictions of the “peak oil” crowd.
* Whether or not we’re already running low on oil, the remaining supply comes from a small group of nations with a troubled history; allowing them to hold other nations hostage, or encouraging military adventurism by energy consuming nations, is not good for world stability.
* If we switch from oil to other fossil fuels somehow, we still have the carbon dioxide problem; global warming is one of the most serious threats to our future here, so developing alternatives is essential.

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